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Bahá'í Faith
A United Nations General Assembly committee has adopted a resolution expressing “serious concern” over the “ongoing severe limitations and increasing restrictions on the right to freedom…
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The European Union has honored a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman with its highest human rights award after her death in Iran last year triggered global demonstrations against…
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A week after authorities in Iran threatened to renew a crackdown on women not wearing the hijab, the country’s morality police has shut down an office…
Religion News
Polls: Policy Decisions Forcing Religion’s Decline in U.S., Religious freedom and Public Health, Racism a “spiritual virus,” Tulsi Gabbard Addresses Hindu Commencement, Abraham Lincoln and Shavu’ot,…
WRN Editorial Staff
Jun 8, 2020
Christianity
I grew up in the 1970s, when the U.S. first had overtly negative dealings with Iran. In 1953, we had helped to topple the democratically elected…
Bahá'í Faith
Iran vs. Religion, Mass Wedding, Same-Sex Adoption, Religious School Funding, Christians Released, Should Churches Report Child Abuse? William Barr Warns of Militant Secularism, Catholic Schools in…
WRN Editorial Staff
Feb 3, 2020
Bahá'í
There must be some kind of missionary muscle some people develop during the course of their religious service. Nayyereh Aminian would become a virtual superhero during…
Bahá'í Faith
Iran news outlets blocked for harassing followers of the Baha’i Faith The social networking site Twitter has responded to the harassment of Baha’is by suspending the…
Christianity
Persecuted Christians speak at the U.S. State Department’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom The U.S. State Department held the largest human rights event they’ve ever held[/tweetit]…
Catholicism
The Church’s own Caritas is already on the ground Pope Francis sent 100,000 euros (amounting to about $113,000) after 23 of Iran’s 31 provinces were ravaged…
Islam
Iranian activist Masih Alinejad believes women must always have a choice on what they wear. Masih Alinejad, the Iranian woman infamous in her country for her…
Islam
Religion Becomes Part Of Geopolitical Struggle Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, has attacked Saudi Arabian control over Mecca and Medina, the two holiest…