September 8th, 2021 | Forum 18 Courts across Kazakhstan have fined at least 26 people so far in 2021 for offering for sale religious literature or other religious objects, such as icons, vinyl records and Koran stands, without state permission. Almost all the fines...

August 25th, 2021 | Halya Coynash | Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group A Russian-controlled ‘court’ in occupied Crimea has fined the Head of the St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki Men’s Monastery for holding a church service on the private land on which the monastery...

August 2021 | Massimo Introvigne | BitterWinter A historical decision was rendered by the 4th Senate of the State Administrative Court of Appeal of Bavaria, with reasons communicated on August 3, 2021, overturning a first instance judgment by the Administrative Court...

Jul 15, 2021 | Freedom of Religion and Belief | HRWF A new code of conduct for members of the Chinese Communist Party in the Tibet Autonomous Region explicitly forbids party members from all forms of religiosity in both public and private life. The six-point code of...

Jul 14, 2021 | Freedom of Religion and Belief | HRWF On 7 July three churches in the  Oran area were sealed, bringing the number of sealed churches to 16. Christians in Algeria ask for prayer for the on-going campaign against the church that started in 2017. The three...

Jul 14, 2021 | Freedom of Religion and Belief | HRWF A Siberian regional court has banned Falun Gong, the Chinese spiritual movement that China’s Communist Party has sought to stamp out since the late 1990s. The ruling, by an appeals court in the city of Novosibirsk,...

June 25th 2021 | Massimo Introvigne | BitterWinter Chak Fateh Bhinder is a village in Daska tehsi of Sialkot district of Pakistan’s Punjab. It is not a famous village, except that Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion, stopped there after completing his...

July 9th 2021 | USCIRF In 2015, USCIRF for the first time recommended the Central African Republic (CAR) be designated by the State Department a Country of Particular Concern for systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom following years of...

July 12th 2021 | Massimo Introvigne | BitterWinter Bitter Winter has reported in the past about the maneuvers of Russian anti-cultists such as Alexander Dvorkin and Roman Silantyev to have Falun Gong banned in Russia as an “extremist” organization. Falun Gong has been...

June 25th 2021 | USCIRF https://content.blubrry.com/uscirf/Spotlight_-_Tigray.mp3 Ethiopia has been going through a democratic transition amidst a civil war that broke out in Tigray at the end of 2020. In November of last year, a massacre took place in Tigray that was...