In 1988 Salmon Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, a book which Muslims thought disparaged Islam. Riots broke out in Muslim countries, and shortly thereafter, Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued...
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After nine years on death row in Pakistan she has finally arrived in Canada The mother of two daughters came to the North American country after Canada offered her asylum. She was reported to be of weak...
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Nasr al-Din takes his inspiration from the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The bill, if passed, will erase the mention of religion from all official documents. Nasr al-Din has been...
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After eight years on death row, Asia Bibi is being blocked from leaving the country. , a Pakistani Christian. The mother to five children was given the capital death sentence for blasphemy and incarcerated...
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The ruling has sparked violence across the country Bibi was convicted in 2010 of blasphemy after she was accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a fight with her neighbors. Bibi has repeatedly...
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02 Sep 2018
Nathan Glover
Concerns have been raised about the slow erosion of the country's secular fabric The 44-year-old Buddhist had complained that a mosque located close to her home created an inordinate decibel of noise...
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This law has no bearing in modern Ireland Charlie Flanagan, the Justice and Equality Minister of Ireland, announced that the . This will be done through a referendum and it concerns the removal of blasphemy...
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Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic does not like “freedom from religion” phrase. Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, a Vatican observer to the UN agencies located in Geneva, has told the United Nations Human Rights...
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Violation of law will bring incarceration plus punitive monetary fines Bidhya Devi Bhandari, the President of Nepal, signed into law a particular legislation which makes evangelism and subsequent...
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09 Nov 2017 Gary Nguyen
Citizens can now list their own faith; no longer limited to six religion choices on ID cards. In a historic feat, by overturning a law that required all citizens to religiously identify as followers...
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Profiles in Faith: Archbishop Desmond Tutu
