Source: MSN By Asim Tanveer MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted a Muslim professor of blasphemy, sentencing him to death for allegedly spreading anti-Islamic ideas. Junaid […]
Source: The Economist Despite the abolition of outdated laws, a culture of freedom is failing to take hold Until last month, a Greek citizen could be jailed for up to […]
Source: BBC News A Mauritanian blogger who was jailed for more than five years after being convicted of blaspheming the Muslim Prophet Muhammad has been released. Rights groups had waged […]
A Pakistan doctor, identified as Ramesh Kumar, was taken into custody on charges of blasphemy while angry protestors set fire to shops owned by Hindus and burnt tyres on road […]
Source: Religion News Service BY John Longhurst WINNIPEG, Canada (RNS) — When he heard that Asia Bibi — the Pakistani Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy — was on her way to […]
Source: Guardian By Harriet Sherwood; Religion correspondent Pakistani Christian man and wife sentenced to death for text messages sent to Muslim The case of a Christian couple on death row […]
This week a cross-party group of 51 Members of the European Parliament issued a collective letter addressed to Imran Khan, Prime Minister of the islamic Republic of Pakistan, expressing their concerns and seeking […]
By Joshua Berlinger, CNN (CNN) Maria Ressa, a high-profile Philippine journalist and vocal critic of the country’s president, was arrested Wednesday in connection with “cyber libel” charges against Rappler, the news […]
Source: Associated Press By KATHY GANNON ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s top court on Tuesday upheld its acquittal of a Christian woman who spent eight years on death row after being […]
Source: The Star OTTAWA—Canada’s foreign ministry says it is prepared to do everything it can to ensure the safety of a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy by Pakistan’s top court. […]
Source: The Washington Post By Shaiq Hussain ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld its decision to acquit a Christian woman on charges of blasphemy that kept her […]
Source: Associated Press By STEPHEN WRIGHT and NINIEK KARMINI JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A polarizing Christian politician whose campaign comments ignited the largest protests in years in Muslim-majority Indonesia was […]
Source: The Guardian Indonesian politician Basuki Tjahaja Purnama freed amid rumours he may seek to resurrect his political fortunes By Kate Lamb in Jakarta @_KateLamb Thu 24 Jan 2019 Jakarta’s […]
The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles to refute blasphemy laws. Suggested reading Ahok, Jakarta’s former governor, released after jail term for blasphemy Freed by court, Pakistani Christian woman […]
Source: Associated Press BY Kathy Gannon ISLAMABAD (AP) — Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian acquitted of blasphemy, still lives the life of a prisoner, nearly three months after her release […]
Source: The Guardian BY Dan Sabbagh Scottish National party MPs have written to Theresa May calling on the UK to grant asylum to Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi and her family, […]
Source: CT “Blasphemy is a serious offense,” wrote judge Asif Khosa, “but the insult of the appellant’s religion … was also not short of being blasphemous.” He referenced a 2013 book by John Morrow, a Canadian convert to Islam. The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the […]
Source: The New York Times By Faisal Devji Mr. Devji teaches history at Oxford University. Working on Christmas decorations at St. Anthony Church in Lahore, Pakistan. A recent blasphemy case […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Naila Inayat LAHORE, Pakistan (RNS) – For the first time in nine years, Asia Bibi will be with her husband on Christmas. But many of […]
Source: Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani minister says the detained Islamic clerics who disrupted daily life with rallies across Pakistan following the acquittal of a Christian woman in […]
