religious freedom

In recent reports, 12 Asian countries have the highest levels of religious persecution in the world.

"Peace is desperately needed," Pope Francis declares.

USCIRF has produced an assessment of religious freedom in several nations that underlines the continued systemic violations of religious minorities.

‘When they were caught praying, they were beaten every morning for 20 consecutive days.’

Human rights activists have condemned the death of a Dalit Christian boy in Gaya, Bihar state of north India.

There has been growing intolerance and open hostility towards Christians since the beginning of September in India.

One in every three countries in the world suffers “grave violations” of religious freedom, according to a report released by the Catholic pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) this week.

Religious freedom must be the result of any renewed Vatican agreement with China, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom emphasized on Tuesday, noting that underground Catholics in the country remained “persecuted.”

The Chinese government is expected to implement a new set of rules aimed at preventing foreign teachers from promoting religion in classrooms.

A Catholic bishop in China has denied that the government plans to tear down his cathedral, after local Catholics expressed concern at Communist authorities taking over land belonging to the diocese.

China is using advanced technology to monitor both public and private religious gatherings, witnesses told a federal hearing on Wednesday.

Asian lawmakers are among the more than 600 elected officials from 30 countries who have called on China’s communist rulers to immediately halt the “systematic and brutal campaign to ‘eradicate’ the spiritual discipline of Falun Gong.”

Cardinal Joseph Zen, the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, has warned that new security laws in the province could lead to a clamp down on religious freedom.

A United States government body has called for India’s inclusion on a religious freedom blacklist over what it described as a “drastic turn downward, with religious minorities under increasing assault.”