Religious freedom takes a dive across Asia
World s largest democracy joins communist and Muslim-majority nations as the region s worst offenders
Indian Dalit Christians hold a 2012 protest in New Delhi for equal rights. India has joined a list of worst offenders for religious persecution in a report by a US government agency. (Photo: AFP)
It was all bad news for Asian nations in the annual United States Commission on International Religious Freedom report, with four more countries India, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia sliding down into the two lowest, most persecuting categories, joining Myanmar, China and North Korea.
The report certainly backs up the consistent themes of increasing persecution across the region that have been covered by journalists for UCA News and its sister publication, La Croix International.
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Print this page WASHINGTON - The U.S. State Department this week designated as a terrorist organization a Bahrain-based Shi’ite militant group known as Saraya al-Mukhtar (SM) for allegedly receiving “financial and logistic” assistance from the Iranian military to oust the small island Arab nation’s government.
“Saraya al-Mukhtar is an Iran-backed terrorist organization based in Bahrain, reportedly receiving financial and logistic support from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement Tuesday.
FILE - US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo meets with Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani during his visit to Manama, Bahrain, Aug. 25, 2020. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)
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Updated 8:09 AM ET, Tue September 29, 2020 (CNN)An intense argument recorded and posted in a WhatsApp group has led to a death penalty sentence and a family torn apart over allegations of insulting Prophet Mohammed, according to lawyers for the defendant.
Music studio assistant Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death by hanging on August 10 after being convicted of blasphemy by an Islamic court in northern Nigeria.
The judgment document states that Sharif-Aminu, 22, was convicted for making a blasphemous statement against Prophet Mohammed in a WhatsApp Group, which is contrary to the Kano State Sharia Penal Code and is an offence which carries the death sentence.
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