Religion
Tortured, beaten, imprisoned, killed, and ostracized. Falun Gong practitioners have routinely suffered these abuses at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the past 23 years.
Their accounts of persecution include being sentenced to forced labor camps, shocked with electric batons, deprived of sleep, raped, denied employment or expelled from school, among many others—all because of their faith. Read more
Not only do the majority of Americans believe religious liberty is on the decline (54%), but nearly six-in-10 (59%) say religious tolerance for Christians in the U.S. is on the decline. This latter proportion believes Christians are “increasingly confronted with intolerance,” according to Lifeway.
Notably, the majority of people in every religious group — Catholics (59%), Protestants (69%), and those of other religious beliefs (52%) — agree that Christians face ramped-up intolerance.
This viewpoint is even held by 41% of people who are not affiliated with any faith. Read more
According to the Security Council, these groups are “carrying out their destructive activities under the guise of humanitarian, educational, cultural, national and religious projects”.
This influential institution led by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and the Vice President of the Council Dmitri Medvedev, says it is a duty of the Russian institutions to “neutralise internal threats to national security”.
Any kind of “permissiveness” with “the use of religious dogmas for negative purposes, generating religious extremism” should end, the Security Council agreed in the meeting. Read more