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Pakistan’s blasphemy laws persecute the weakest of the weak

By Farahnaz Ispahani - CNNEditor's note: Farahnaz Ispahani is a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a senior fellow for...

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Asia Bibi central to trade deals, EU tells Pakistan

By WorldWatch MonitorThe EU’s Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Jan Figeľ, told Pakistani officials during a recent visit that the renewal...

- February 19, 2018 0

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Asia Bibi nominated for European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize

By John Burger - AleteiaAsia Bibi, the Pakistani woman who is perhaps the best known figure embroiled in a controversial law that punishes religious...

- September 27, 2017 0

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As retake of Mosul looms, Muslim extremism has already emptied Iraq of Christians

By World Watch Monitor -On Monday (17 October) Iraq’s Army finally announced the beginning of its offensive to retake the northern city of Mosul...

- October 19, 2016 0

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Pakistan Supreme Court Delays Ruling on Asia Bibi Case as Islamist Pressures Mount

By Morning Star News -As Islamist groups warned of reprisals for a possible acquittal in Pakistan’s highest profile blasphemy case, the country’s Supreme Court...

- October 17, 2016 0

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Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack September 7, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesPrayers in Deir El-Garnouse Coptic church, near Al-Minya in Upper Egypt, after Islamic State opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts, killing at least 28 people in May 2017. A Christian father and son were killed by suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on 30 August. The two Copts, Salama […]
Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts August 12, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesCopts in Egypt have been targeted in a string of attacks this year. An elderly Coptic Christian and his son who run an off-license shop in Giza, central Egypt, were hospitalized after they were severely injured in an attack. Joseph Israel, 70, was sitting outside his shop in the Omrania district in […]
Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son March 24, 2022
An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. On the night of 15 February, Magdy Fathy Shehata Awad Allah, deacon at the Coptic Orthodox Church in the northeast of Alexandria and a human rights activist, was rushed […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian imprisoned for 5 years for ‘blasphemy’ February 9, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesA police man enters a prison on the outskirts of Egypt’s capital Cairo. A Coptic Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, or EIPR, which represented him during his trial. On 29 January the Cairo Economic Court found Marco Gerges […]

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