Category: News

Aasia Bibi’s Asylum Limbo

November 25, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
The precarious situation Aasia Bibi finds herself in reflects an abject failure on the part of Pakistan’s authorities to ensure her safety. Conversations concerning the state of the Persecuted Church and various publications specialising in this field was always accessible to me. Growing up in a household where the decision had been made to leave […] Read more

Md. Sazzadul Hoque: A Call for Help for an Inhumane Persecution

October 17, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
Md. Sazzadul Hoque, a Bangladeshi blogger, human rights defender, and online activist, is in trouble. He is a member of the Humane First Movement and the founder of penman.in. Here is his current status. For activist work and writing, Hoque has suffered on a number of levels, including receiving death threats. In 2017, he was […] Read more

The Growing Tide of Violent Rhetoric Against Baha’is in Houthi Yemen

May 1, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
Yemen’s Houthis incite violence against Baha’is on social media.   On March 23, Yemen’s Houthi leader Abdel-Malek Al-Houthi made a speech in which he called the Baha’i faith a “satanic” movement that wished to “wage war” against Islam. On the same day of Al-Houthi’s speech, Houthi activist Ahmed Ayed published a tweet stating “we will […] Read more

Catholic Values Fundraising Row – Secularists Respond

April 4, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
The International Campaign For One Secular School System will be holding a press conference at Parliament Hill in response to the Halton Catholic District School Board’s new ‘Catholic values only’ fundraising rule. The publicly funded Halton Catholic District School Board, which oversees 33,000 students in 46 elementary, 9 secondary and 4 continuing education facilities, passed a […] Read more

Tunisian Atheist Risks Death If Forced to Leave Romania

March 29, 2018 | by | 1 Comments
Tunisian Atheist Nacer Amari, who lives in Romania will be forced to return to Tunisia in April. He fears being killed. Tunisian Atheist Nacer Amari, 41, has lived in Romania since 2011, when the Tunisian revolution shook the country. Amari, a member of the organization Tunisian Freethinkers, received a number of death threats on social […] Read more

Houthi Secretary-General Accuses Baha’is of Dividing Muslims

March 27, 2018 | by | 0 Comments
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis accuse Baha’is of seeking to divide Muslims, in an effort to incite hatred against the religious minority. In a statement last week, Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badreddin Al-Houthi, the Secretary-General of Yemen’s Shia political party Ansar Allah, accused Baha’is of seeking to create disunity among Muslims. An article in ParsToday said: “Explaining that the […] Read more