US targets Russian mercenary group over religious freedom
Washington DC, USAP The Biden administration on Friday placed a well-known Russian paramilitary organisation on a list of religious freedom violators alongside a number of notorious terrorist organisations. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, from right, Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Representative. Barbara Lee, a Democrat from […]
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: Eritrea continues to pull the wool over the eyes of the international community
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, says the world must continue standing up and speaking out until Eritrea and all of its people are free…
Essay: Mikhail Gorbachev’s tragic legacy in the Russian Orthodox Church
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JOHN P BURGESS, James Henry Snowden Professor of Systematic Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, says Mikhail Gorbachev ended 70 years of repression of the Russian Orthodox Church but also opened the way for other faith groups…
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…
Books: Looking to Thessalonians for a new way forward on the issue of religious freedom
DAVID ADAMS reads Michael F Bird’s thought-provoking examination of what religious freedom looks like in an age of secularisation…
Essay: Putin is after more than land – he wants the religious soul of Ukraine
Former special envoy for religious minorities at the US Department of State, KNOX THAMES, writes – in an article published on Religion News Service, that we should make no mistake, Putin is seeking full capitulation from Ukraine – both physical and spiritual…
Essay: Americans support religious freedom – as long as it’s convenient for everyone
In an article published by Religion News Service, RYAN BURGE, an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, a pastor and author, says speaking in generalities about religious freedom will always win admirers…
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: From Iran, a glimmer of hope to start the year
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, says that while the release of nine members of the Church of Iran is a welcome development, the situation for many Christians and other religious or belief minorities in Iran remains “highly concerning”…