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  • February 2, 2016
    Muslim scholars release declaration on religious minority rights

    The World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary, the Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, has commended the release of the Marrakesh Declaration on the Rights of Religious Minorities in Predominantly Muslim Majority Communities.

  • May 6, 2014
    Indian candidate Narendra Modi stokes religious extremism

    Extremist politician Narendra Modi has dangerously inflamed religious tension during the Indian election. “This is the land of Lord Ram,” he declared in Faizabad, standing in front of a picture of the god. In 1992 fanatics tore down a nearby mosque and pledged to build a temple to Ram in its place.

  • March 13, 2013
    Rohingya Journalism Fund: exposing the terrible truth

    The Rohingya of Burma are a desperate people. Considered “illegal immigrants” without basic citizenship rights by Rangoon, they subsist in impoverished townships and refugee camps where they live in constant fear of the threat of external violence.

  • December 2, 2011
    Ecumenical Patriarch calls for freedom of religion and minority rights

    Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I says there must be respect for the “inherent rights of all human beings and their aspiration and rights of religious freedom."

  • October 5, 2011
    What kind of 'minorities' are the Christians of the Middle East?

    The term 'minorities', when applied to Christian and other communities in the Middle East, opens up a range of contradictory emotions and responses, says Dr Harry Hagopian. But perhaps there could be a greater alliance of purposes among those who do and do not use this term, distinguishing a definition that allows for a range of legal and political remedies for those involved, while distancing it from its more disparaging, negative, intimidating and unhelpful resonances?

  • July 7, 2011
    Pakistani religious minorities unhappy about new official plans

    Christians and other leaders in Pakistan have spoken out against the government's move to relegate issues regarding religious minorities.

  • July 5, 2010
    Rise of European far right fuels 'new racism' of religious victimisation

    A rise in right-wing radicalism is fuelling the spread of xenophobia and extremist attitudes towards religious minorities in Europe, says Minority Rights Group International.

  • December 16, 2006
    Baha'is denied official recognition in Egypt

    In a case that has become the focus of a national debate on religious freedom, Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court has ruled against the right of Baha'is to be properly identified on government documents.