Pakistan, USCIRF: “Religious Liberty from Bad to Worse”
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom denounces the “dire condition” of religious minorities.
From the World
Ata Zholy: Crackdown on a Kazakh Islamic Religious Movement in Russia
Falsely qualified as “pagan” by anti-cultists, the groups was born from popular Islam and mediums who claimed to channel Sufi saints.
Shincheonji: Korean Supreme Court Confirms Leader’s Acquittal from COVID Charges
It is now definitively confirmed that the movement and its leader Chairman Lee did not breach any COVID regulation.
Maharaja Ranjit Singh: Both Lahore Statue and Man Who Vandalized It Attend Their Fate
The monument has been restored, but may not be re-installed where it once was. The man who attacked it has confessed he planned to kill an Indian politician.
“The Unknown War”: Re-Assessing Anti-Soviet Lithuanian Partisans
A new book in English edited by Arūnas Streikus was written before the war in Ukraine but is published in the right moment.
Pakistan: Swearing You Are Not an Ahmadi Mandatory for Marrying in Punjab
Spouses should take an oath that they believe there can be no prophets after Muhammad, according to instructions issued on July 30.
Allya Ayat: A Global Kazakh Esoteric Movement Persecuted in Russia
Russian FECRIS affiliates instigated for years a police repression of the group, which has started again in July 2022.
Pakistan: Shiites Killed in Gilgit-Baltistan
Violence against Pakistani Shia Muslims during the sacred month of Muharram unfortunately repeats itself every year
Donald Westbrook’s “L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology Studies”: A New Way of Studying Scientology
The book in the Cambridge Elements series may one day be remembered as the first textbook of “Scientology Studies 2.0.”