“I miss my people, my nation”: Fear, anxiety follow Nicaraguan faith leaders into exile
MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ, of Associated Press, reports on the plight of those exiled from Nicaragua because of their faith…
Essay: Remembering Christians in Indigenous communities this Christmas
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, urges Christians to remember – and pray for – Indigenous communities around the world this Christmas…
Essay: Another terrorist attack reminds us of the Taliban’s failure to protect Afghan citizens
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, says it is “increasingly apparent that more needs to be done to hold the Taliban to account and to ensure that the lives of Hazaras and other Afghan citizens are protected”…
Essay: We must not stop until we see change in Myanmar
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, says a far more co-ordinated and comprehensive response is needed on Myanmar, one which includes a full global arms embargo against the military, and co-ordinated, targeted sanctions against its enterprises…
Essay: One year on from unprecedented nationwide protests, Cuba still needs our prayers
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy, looks at the case of Rev Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo…
Essay: Telling the untold stories of Indigenous religious minority women in Mexico
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, highlights the findings of a recent CSW report on Indigenous religious minority women in Mexico…
Essay: The death of Eritrean Patriarch Abune Antonios should be a call to action
ELLIS HEASLEY and Dr KHATAZA GONDWE, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, reflect on the life of Eritrean Patriarch Abune Antonios and why honouring his “unwavering stand for human rights and freedom of religion or belief” means calling out ongoing abuses…
Eritrean Orthodox Patriarch dies after 16 years in detention
Nairobi, Kenya RNS Abune Antonios, a confined Eritrean Orthodox Church Patriarch and the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on 9th February at the age of 94. He was still serving detention in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, after his arrest in 2006, just two years after his installation as the third […]
Essay: 2021 – a mixed year for religious freedom
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy organisation CSW, says 2021 has been a year of both setbacks and advances with regard to freedom of religion or belief…
Essay: Nine months after the coup, the international community is still failing the people of Myanmar
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy organisation CSW, says the world is failing the people of Myanmar…