Iran moves to ban education for non-Muslims as ‘propaganda act’
Iran’s new education minister Mohsen Haji Mirzaei has used the launch of a new country-wide project as an opportunity to strike out against Iran’s religious minorities, saying Wednesday that students of “other More...
Myanmar’s highest Buddhist body censors monks, declares group illegal
The government-appointed council, Myanmar’s highest Buddhist body declared a hardline monk organization an illegal association and ordered the nationwide removal of all its signage, three weeks after their leader, More...
Uganda: Asuman Sekidde murders one-week-old twins because Regina Namatovu wouldn’t convert to Islam
A Christian woman has been brutally attacked with a machete by her Muslim husband for refusing to convert to Islam as murderous attack resulted in the butchering of the woman’s one-week-old twins. Regina Namatovu More...
Discrimination against Pakistani minorities continues to rise
Recently, the Greater Hyderabad municipal corporation advertised vacancies for sanitary workers. Applications are invited from non-Muslims only and a further condition has been added in the application form, that More...
Purdue’s Fenggang Yang to study religion in China, how Christianity grew
Fenggang Yang, a Purdue University professor of sociology, has received $3.5 million from the John Templeton Foundation to map the religious and spiritual landscape in China and study how religions have flourished More...
President Obama speaks about Islam, Christianity and his personal faith
President Obama addressed his profession of Christianity while speaking in India this week. Obama was addressing an auditorium of about 2,000 youth when he said that many people have doubted his Christian faith. More...
State Department on Christianity in Middle East: ‘shadow of its former self’
The State Department issued a shocking report on the state of religious freedom around the world this week, noting that Christianity in the Middle East, especially Syria, is becoming a “shadow of its former More...
Muslims in Bangladesh torch Buddhist temples in protest of ‘blasphemy’ to Muhammad
Thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims set fire to at least 10 Buddhist temples and 40 homes in anger over a Facebook photo of a burned Quran before authorities restored order. Bangladesh map/CIA The AP report detailed More...
Curfew imposed as Myanmar in state of emergency following riots
Myanmar President Thein Sein has announced a state of emergency in Myanmar after deadly riots between Muslims and Buddhists resulted in several deaths. FOX News reports the details of Sein’s announcement: He More...
