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Gender-based violence used in persecution of global Christian community

January 16, 2019 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Libya, North Korea, Pakistan, Somalia, Women

GETTY: Pakistani women protest against twin suicide bombings in Lahore, March 2015

...be a Christian (North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya and Pakistan), vulnerabilities which are linked to men and women’s social status create space for harsh religious persecution, report the List’s analysts...

Key trends show in 2019 List of countries where it’s most difficult to live as a Christian

January 16, 2019 Global News -- No Particular Country BJP, Blasphemy, Boko Haram, China, Egypt, Hindu nationalism, India, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Minorities, Nigeria, Religious freedom, World Watch List

WWL 2019 key trends, gender, China, woman (photo: VPA)

...Korean-American Christians from a North Korean prison. Two were lecturers at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), arrested in 2017, accused of “behavior against the regime”. PUST has...

Pakistan joins US list of worst religious freedom violators

December 13, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, China, Comoros, Eritrea, Iran, Minorities, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Religious freedom, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, USA, Uzbekistan

Burial of victims of a suicide attack on the Methodist Bethel Church in Quetta, Pakistan, on Sunday 17 December 2017 in which at least 9 people were killed. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...statement on Tuesday, 11 December. China, Eritrea, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan are accused of “having engaged in or tolerated systematic, ongoing, [and] egregious...

UK parliamentary group calls out 27 countries for ‘significant’ religious freedom violations

December 10, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Ahmed Shaheed, Bangladesh, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Egypt, Eritrea, Human rights, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Religious freedom, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tariq Ahmad, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UK, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

A church in Bartella, a town near the Iraqi city of Mosul, after Islamic State militants left the area in October 2016. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...in the APPG report are: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan,...

West ‘failing to convert words of concern into action’ against ultra-nationalism

November 23, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Buddhist nationalism, Hindu nationalism, Islamic extremism, Kyrgyzstan, Minorities, Nigeria, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shia, Sunni

...Kyrgyzstan entered it in the “discrimination” category. In the cases of some countries that have always been in the report, such as Saudi Arabia and North Korea, the situation was...

Myanmar: Peace talks for settling conflict with majority-Christian ethnic groups

September 10, 2018 Myanmar Buddhist nationalism, Cardinal Bo, Chin, Kachin, Minorities, Myanmar, Religious freedom

...missionary organisation, calls Myanmar “a deeply fractured nation on a political and especially ethnic level”. At a peace forum in South Korea on 1 September, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo from...

Life in 70-years-old North Korea ‘is like living in Orwell’s 1984’, says escapee

September 7, 2018 North Korea Communism, Human rights, Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea

North Korea is preparing to celebrate its 70th anniversary while the majority of its population faces multiple challenges every day, including food shortages and human rights violations. (Photo: ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images)

...changed New report finds ‘flicker of hope’ in North Korea North Korea: A country with no Christian children Escaping North Korea Defector: ‘I’ll do all possible to end North Korea...

Korean reunification would not resemble German experience, says theologian

August 21, 2018 Churches, Germany, North Korea, South Korea

A fence at Imjingak park, on the South Korean side, that separates the country from its northern neighbour. It's filled with ribbons with prayers and wishes for North Korea and reunification written on them. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

A fence in Imjingak Park, on the South Korean side of the border, covered with ribbons containing prayers for North Korea and the two nations’ reunification. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)...

US envoy supports Sudan’s removal from ‘sponsors of terrorism’ list

July 10, 2018 Sudan North Korea, Religious freedom, Sanctions, Sudan, Terrorism, USA

US charge d'affaires in Sudan, Steven Koutsis, in the harbour of Port Sudan on the red sea coast, as a US ship is unloading humanitarian aid supplies provided by the US development agency, on 5 June 2018. (Photo: ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)

...“North Korea is a paramount national security priority for the United States.” Sudan had always denied dealing with North Korea – another country on the US’s terrorism blacklist – but...

North Korea tells US to drop ‘anachronistic human rights racket’

July 9, 2018 North Korea Bibles, Donald Trump, Human rights, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, Prisons, Religious freedom, Torture, USA

...promised that “complete, verifiable, and irreversible human rights improvements” in North Korea were a necessary part of any deal, while a report by the US State Department highlighted North Korea...

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