Day: August 21, 2009

Current Events Human Rights In the News International

‘We have so many uncanonised martyrs’ – Christians in Pakistan are living in daily fear of violence from extremists (Catholic Herald)

Sister Janet Fearns, communications coordinator of Missio writes about the extent of religious persecution in Pakistan.  A link to the full article follows this excerpt: ‘I am sorry I could not speak to you then because we were just about to begin the funeral service for Irfan, an 11-year-old boy who was shot in the head […]

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Current Events Human Rights In the News

Charles Colson on media indifference to international religious freedom

Charles Colson recently wrote an interesting editorial on the media’s non-response to religious freedom issues in India.  Here is an excerpt followed by a link to the full article: In 1998, Congress created the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. Its mandate was to “monitor the status of freedom of thought, conscience, and religion […]

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