Religious Discrimination

Expressing solidarity with the country’s Jews

Scholars have detected a new spawning ground for hatred of Jews: social media.

France has been inhospitable to its Jewish population in recent years. Ten years ago an Islamist extremist gunned down three people at a Jewish school in Toulouse .

In a sudden move, the Russian government ordered the Jewish Agency to remove its staff from the country.

Using the internet to combat Islamophobia

The Sikh Coalition was founded four days after September 11, 2001, in response to attacks against Sikhs.

Police will no longer require Muslim women to remove hijabs for mug shots.

Poor Christians in the predominantly Buddhist nation, particularly those who are converts to their faith, are among the worst victims of the calamity.

Department of Homeland Security seeks to prevent violent attacks while Muslims observe Ramadan and Jews and Christians Passover and Easter this month.

Two-thirds of the Muslims interviewed, half the Jews, and more than a third of evangelical Protestants experienced discrimination at work.

New law prevents schools and their sports regulators from restricting religious apparel unless it poses a legitimate threat.

Hate crimes against Christians in 2020 rose 70 percent in over five European countries according to an organization that monitors prejudice and discrimination against Christians in Europe.

Victory for the constitutional right of every German citizen to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

The black pastor of a racially diverse Minneapolis congregation is mentoring ministers of white-majority churches on combating racial injustice and forging meaningful social change.

It’s one of the most dreadful countries for religious freedom and it has shown no sign of improving.

A 55-year-old Supreme Court lawyer from the Indian state Tamil Nadu is challenging India’s discrimination against Christian Dalits—Christians of the Hindu caste of untouchables.

A U.S. judge has ordered a man who assaulted a Sikh shopkeeper to learn about religion.

The election to Congress of two observant Muslim women challenges a regulation in place for nearly 200 years that would outlaw the wearing of headscarves.

A recent article in the New York Times explores Germany’s complex social landscape and how it is grappling with the incursion of a new wave of anti-Semitism.

One youth died and homes were burned when violence erupted November 10 in Thakurpara, a majority Hindu village in Rangpur Sadar in Northern Bangladesh. The mob of some 20,000 was incited by rumors that a Hindu resident defamed Islam in a Facebook posting.

In his briefing to the UN General Assembly human rights committee October 24, UN Special Rapporteur on Religious Rights Ahmed Shaheed said over 70 countries currently have anti-blasphemy laws that can be used to suppress dissenting views, in violation of international human rights standards.

“I worship not that which ye worship. Nor will ye worship that which I worship. To you be your way, and to me mine…”

Christian Solidarity Worldwide has been granted NGO status after Britain’s UN Ambassador Matthew Rycroft called for the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to step in and review their application after repeated turndowns.