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Report: Nearly a Dozen European Countries Failing to Meet Anti-Semitism Challenges
Avoiding this designation was Norway, which has a comprehensive national plan to combat the scourge, as well as sufficient funds for security measures to protect the Jewish community.
(JNS) Nearly a dozen European countries are “insufficient” in their efforts to meet the challenges of anti-Semitism, a report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom found.
“Sadly, 2020 was another difficult year for global anti-Semitism” between COVID-19 unleashing an “avalanche” of anti-Semitic propaganda to physical attacks on Jews worldwide, said Gary Bauer, a commissioner with the organization, as well as president of the American Values think tank.
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Map showing the location of Jharkhand state, India. (Image credit: CBN News)
Christian persecution is on the rise in India. The latest report reveals a Christian family in the eastern part of the country has been confined to their home for months after a mob of tribal animists repeatedly attacked them for leaving their native religion.
Morning Star News (MSN) reports local police officials have even threatened to jail the family for breach of the peace.
Animism is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Potentially, animism perceives all things animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and perhaps even words as animated or alive.
Designate India as ‘Country of Particular Concern’: Indian American Muslim Council to USCIRF
By Yunus Y Lasania| Published: 14th April 2021 7:31 pm IST
Hyderabad: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has been urged by dozens of international civil rights organizations and hundreds of individuals, to recommend the US State Department and designate India as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) for “rapidly escalating persecution of religious minorities”.
In the letter sent on 12
th April to USCIRF Chair Gayle Manchin and eight other Commissioners, the signees said, “the behaviour” of India’s federal and state governments is enabling violation of religious freedom. The violations had “spectacularly worsened” since last year, when USCIRF had the first recommendation that India be designated as CPC.