China’s crackdown on Uighurs spreads to even mild critics
Source: Associated Press By GERRY SHIH BEIJING (AP) — Zhang Haitao was a rare voice in China, a member of the ethnic Han majority who for years had criticized the […]
‘Every attack is a massacre’: Afghanistan’s Shiite minority increasingly targeted in their places of worship
Source: Los Angeles Times By Shashank Bengali Contact Reporter Dozens of men gathered in a dust-blown graveyard Saturday to pay their last respects to 83-year-old Karbalai Mohammad Anwar Noori, one of […]
Malala’s 2012 shooting came at time of high social hostilities in Pakistan
Source: Pew Research Center BY ALEKSANDRA SANDSTROM Five years ago today, Taliban gunmen tried to kill Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan in response to her advocacy of education for girls. The Taliban justified the attack […]
Myanmar takes foreign diplomats into conflict-torn Rakhine
Source: Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar authorities took foreign diplomats and United Nations representatives on a tour Monday of conflict-torn northern Rakhine state, where a security crackdown has […]
Rohingya crisis: Rakhine aid boat ‘blocked by Myanmar mob’
Source: BBC News Police in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fired warning shots to disperse a Buddhist mob trying to block a boat carrying aid, reports say. The boat was bound […]
Rohingya crisis: Suu Kyi speech criticised by global leaders
Source: BBC News Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi is facing mounting international pressure for her handling of violence in Rakhine state and the Rohingya refugee crisis. In a speech on Tuesday, […]
Rohingya ‘extremists’ trying to build stronghold – Myanmar army
Source: BBC News Myanmar’s top general has blamed Rohingya people for the crisis that has led to hundreds of thousands crossing into Bangladesh. Gen Min Aung Hlaing said the Rohingya […]
Top Catholic Official in Myanmar Speaks Out on Treatment of Rohingya Muslims and the Risks of a Military Coup
Source: Time By Elizabeth Dias Sep 13, 2017 As tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar and global criticism mounts over the civilian government’s silence on the crisis, the country’s top […]
Myanmar Rakhine: Thousands flee to Bangladesh
Source: BBC News More than 18,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state have entered Bangladesh in less than a week, aid workers say. The crisis erupted after Rohingya […]
Pakistan Christian teen detained over ‘Koran burning’
Source: Deutsche Welle Pakistani police have arrested a Christian teenager after he was allegedly caught burning pages of the Koran. It’s the latest incident in Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy-related arrests and vigilante killings. Police said Sunday that Asif Massih, an 18-year-old member of the minority Christian community, was caught “red handed” desecrating […]
India hedges pledge to expel Rohingya Muslims amid outcry
Source: Associated Press By ASHOK SHARMA NEW DELHI (AP) — A day after the U.N. chief voiced concern about Indian plans to potentially deport tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya […]
Rohingya plight
Source: ET For the last few years, Rohingya Muslims have found themselves in the awkward place where some of the world’s stateless peoples have lived and subsisted — largely unnoticed and unassisted by the international community. Wedged uncomfortably between the borders of their native Myanmar and Bangladesh — their first […]
Pakistan names first Hindu minister in government for more than two decades
Source: Independent BY Jeff Farrell A Hindu politician has been ushered into the highest level of government in Pakistan for the first time in more than two decades in the predominantly […]
All minorities deserve respect, Mormon apostle tells black church leaders
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK | The Salt Lake Tribune Richard W. Brown | LDS Church Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles held a […]
Coptic Christians in Australia to have refugee claims reassessed
Source: The Guardian BY Ben Doherty Review of their status prompted by spate of violent assaults on the religious minority in Egypt Relatives mourn victims of an attack by gunmen that […]
HINDU NATIONALISTS ARE PROTECTING COWS OVER PEOPLE IN INDIA
Source: World Religion News VIGILANTES KILL TO PROTECT COWS IN INDIA Hindu nationalists are accused of vigilantism to forcefully promote their distorted Hindu vision of India. The cow, which is […]
Ayodhya dispute: India top court orders trial for BJP leaders
Source: BBC Senior figures in India’s ruling party will be tried for criminal conspiracy over the destruction of a 16th Century mosque, the Supreme Court has ruled. The order is […]
Rohingya Fleeing Myanmar Describe Military Tactic Of Systematic Rape
Source: NPR BY MICHAEL SULLIVAN AND ASHLEY WESTERMAN With her 8-year-old son’s head resting in her lap, Zubaida was sitting at home with some other women from her village in western Myanmar’s […]
Indian police: Mob kills Muslim man who was transporting cow
Source: Associated Press By NIRMALA GEORGE NEW DELHI (AP) — A Muslim man beaten by a mob that accused him of transporting cows for slaughter has died in western India, […]
Rise of Hindu ‘extremist’ spooks Muslim minority in India’s heartland
Source: The Guardian By Michael Safi in Gorakhpur In Gorakhpur, the power base of a firebrand monk, religious tension grows with Uttar Pradesh’s 40 million Muslims Supporters of the BJP celebrate […]