ESSAY: NO TRUE PEACE WITH NORTH KOREA UNTIL HUMAN RIGHTS ARE ADDRESSED
BENEDICT ROGERS, East Asia team leader at religious freedom advocacy Christian Solidarity Worldwide, reflects on last week’s summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and what “true peace” looks like…
More than 50 NGOs sign letter calling for Kim Jong-un to address human rights situation in North Korea
More than 50 non-government organisations have signed a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, urging him to address the human rights situation in his country. The letter, which comes ahead of a planned summit between US President Donald Trump and Mr Kim next week and follows an historic meeting between Mr Kim and South […]
Another Christian arrested in Iran as four others expected to start serving sentences following failed appeal, says CSW
A Christian man has been arrested by authorities in Iran and accused of “spreading propaganda against the establishment”, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide. The UK-based religious freedom advocacy said the man, whom the organisation identified as Mohammadali Yassaghi, known as ‘Estifan’, was arrested on 10th April and was later taken to prison. CSW said Mr Yassaghi is […]
Christian Solidarity Worldwide calls for release of four Christians arrested on anti-conversion charges in India’s Jharkhand state
UK-based religious freedom advocacy Christian Solidarity Worldwide has called for the release of four Christians who were arrested in the Indian state of Jharkhand in late May on anti-conversion charges. CSW says local sources have informed them that charges against the four – arrested on 29th May – were false and stemmed out of opposition to […]
Four more churches attacked in Nepal
World Watch Monitor A church in Nepal has been bombed and three other churches attacked by arsonists over a five-day period, reports Christian Solidarity Worldwide. Arsonists attacked Hebron Church in Hilihang Rural Municipality, in Nepal’s eastern district of Panchthar, on 9th May; Emmanuel Church, Doti, in the country’s far west, on 10th May; and Emmanuel Church […]
Christian Solidarity Worldwide supports calls for end to “culture of impunity” in Myanmar
Christian Solidarity Worldwide has thrown its support behind a call from members of the Kachin community around the world for the UN Security Council to refer the Myanmar Government to the International Criminal Court amid reports of renewed fighting in parts of Myanmar last month. Mark Cutts, head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian […]
Christian Solidarity Worldwide calls on new Cuban President to protect religious freedom
UK-based religious freedom advocacy Christian Solidarity Worldwide has called on new Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel to abolish the Office of Religious Affairs and adopt legislating protecting religious freedom. CSW concluded in a recent report on religious freedom in Cuba that the ORA – part of the Central Committee of the Communist party – remains the […]
Christian organisations call for Chinese Government to give “full and transparent” account of human rights lawyer’s death
Christian organisations have raised questions over the death of prominent Chinese Christian lawyer Li Baiguang who died in a military hospital in China on Monday, calling on the Chinese Government to give a “full account” of the reasons for his death. Dr Li, who was a vocal defender of Christians and farmers in China, is […]
Christians call for investigation into murders of Mexican priests
BosNewsLife (with reporting by STEFAN J BOS) Mexican authorities are under increasing pressure to investigate the murders of two Roman Catholic priests after a prosecutor suggested that the clergy’s deaths could be linked to their association with organised crime. Priests Iván Añorve Jaimes and Germain Muñiz Garcia were killed and four others injured when armed men […]
New report finds ‘flicker of hope’ in North Korea
World Watch Monitor A new report on North Korea finds that over the last decade there has been a shift in people’s attitudes away from being “passive recipients” serving the regime to being motivated “change-makers” shaping their own destiny. Movies, markets and mass surveillance: human rights in North Korea after a decade of change, by […]