Lilieth Whyte News Today

In a move welcomed by religious rights advocates, the United States has for the first time officially listed the Republic of Azerbaijan as a country which violates religious freedom, Christianity Today (CT) reports. A part of the former Soviet Union until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, Azerbaijan is a Muslim-majority transcontinental state which lies at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

Is the Islamic nation’s inclusion—the State Departments only change this year—driven by its treatment of Christians, Muslims, or ethnic Armenians displaced from the Artsakh enclave?

Amb. Ajisomo Ambassador Babatunde O. Ajisomo, Special Representative of the President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to Liberia, over the weekend underscored the importance of youth development at last Friday’s closing exercise of the Young Political Leadership School (YPLS) before the holding of the October polls . The YPLS, he said, is designed to build the political leadership and organizing skills of young people who have chosen to pursue a career in politics an...