Pakistan: Jamaat-e-Islami Does Not Want Women to Ride Bikes
The party attacked a bicycling camp in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Islamic fundamentalists are concerned that riding a bicycle may break a girl’s hymen.
A magazine on religious liberty and human rights
The party attacked a bicycling camp in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Islamic fundamentalists are concerned that riding a bicycle may break a girl’s hymen.
The deep crisis of the French governmental anti-cult mission has been revealed by the resignation of its chief, Hanène Romdhane.
A medical certificate puts again the Pakistani Hindu girl at risk of being delivered back to the man who forcibly converted her to Islam, raped, and “married” her.
A slander campaign targets the Russian branch of the International Restoration Church, whose founder Evgenyi Peresvetov was expelled from Russia in 2018.
Russian propaganda claims that controversial mathematician and “prophet” Sediq Afghan told Putin “not to step back from the special operation.”
The crime should cover cases, including of religious movements, where all efforts to declare a group “extremist” fail.
Mãe Stella de Oxóssi died in 2018. Her statue had been repeatedly vandalized by Christian fundamentalists and has now been burned.
The names of the Russian anti-cult organizations disappeared from the European federation’s website after the invasion of Ukraine. Now they confess they are still part of FECRIS.
Father Alexander Volkov, executive editor of the official organ of the Moscow Patriarchate, called Ukraine a “phenomenon” rather than a “country.”
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