Condemnation of Ahok blasphemy conviction and prison sentence grows
World Watch Monitor Tuesday’s verdict of an Indonesian court, sentencing Jakarta’s outgoing governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as ‘Ahok’, to two years in prison for blasphemy, has received widespread condemnation globally as politicians, academics and rights groups express their concern about religious pluralism in Indonesia. Ahok, a Chinese Christian, was charged with blasphemy after accusing […]
COPTS: SOLIDARITY FOR EGYPT’S BELEAGUERED CHRISTIANS DURING FIRST COPTIC PAPAL VISIT TO UK
World Watch Monitor reports on the first visit by Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II to the UK…
In the US, Sioux tribe receives land from South Dakota Jesuits
RNS The Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, highlighted in red, in south-central South Dakota. Five hundred acres will be returned to the Rosebud Sioux tribe in the general area. PICTURE: Google Maps A tribe of Sioux in the US is going back to the land – or rather, the land is going back to the tribe. The […]
STRANGESIGHTS: A NEW RETWEET RECORD (AND PLENTY OF ‘NUGGS’); SINGING AT THE RIGHT TEMPO; AND, A PRESIDENT’S THRILLER…
DAVID ADAMS reports on the odder side of life…
Irish police drop blasphemy investigation over entertainer Stephen Fry’s comments
Police in Ireland have dropped an investigation into whether entertainer Stephen Fry made blasphemous comments on a TV show in 2015 after failing to find enough complainants. The investigation was launched after an unidentified man made a complaint over an appearance Mr Fry made on an RTE show in which Mr Fry asked why he […]