Open Doors International, an institution dedicated to the study of the reality of persecuted Christians around the world, has recently launched the World Watch List 2024 – Reporting period: 01-10-2022 to 30-09-2023. Among the top countries with an extreme degree of persecution are North Korea, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea, Yemen, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Iran and Afghanistan. …
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UNEQUAL World Research Center published the book “Shaping a World of Freedoms: 75 Years of Legacy and Impact of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. The chapters of the publication highlight pressing concerns about fundamental freedoms, human security, and civil …
Last month, Open Doors International published the 2023 Gender Report: A web of forces. The report focuses on Open Doors’ World Watch List of the top 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian and aims to show where the expression of that hostility to Christianity most often utilizes the means of …
Open Doors International, an institution dedicated to the study of the reality of persecuted Christians around the world, has recently launched the World Watch List 2023 – Reporting period: 01-10-2021 to 30-09-2022. Among the top countries with an extreme degree of persecution are North Korea, Somalia, Yemen, Eritrea, Lybia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, and …
Open Doors International, an institution dedicated to the study of the reality of persecuted Christians around the world, has recently launched the World Watch List 2022 – Reporting period: 01-10-2020 to 30-09-2021. Among the top 10 countries with an extreme degree of persecution are Afghanistan, North Korea, Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Eritrea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran and …
OLIRE is pleased to share the recent edition of the International Journal for Religious Freedom: “The impact of religious freedom research”. The journal explores the question of the impact of religious freedom research further, an issue which covers a great variety of methodological, disciplinary and geographic perspectives on the impact of religious freedom research. Dr. …
In the framework of an ongoing investigation on Citizen Participation and Governance in Latin America, the Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean (OPALC-CERI/Sciences Po) in alliance with two journalists, seven researchers, and with the financial support of the Charles Foundation Léopold Mayer, launched the webseries Protestas. The eight episodes of the webseries are available …
Deputy Reyna Celeste Ascencio Ortega, a member of the MORENA parliamentary group, presented in October 2020 a legislative initiative to reform section IV of article 29, corresponding to the chapter on infractions and sanctions of the Law on Religious Associations and Public Worship. The proposal seeks to punish acts of discrimination based on people’s sexual …
The Quintana Roo feminist network presented a complaint against Bishop Pedro Pablo Elizondo and Gabriela Santana Duarte, representative of the Protestant Christian Church, before the State Attorney General and the Special Prosecutor for Electoral Crimes (Fepade) for alleged acts of discrimination, vote coercion, incitement to hatred and other electoral crimes. The group maintains that the statements made by the Bishop in …
The International Institute for Religious Freedom just published the last volume of the International Journal for Religious Freedom: “Responding to Persecution” (Vol 10 Issue 1/2 2017) Dennis P. Petri contributed to the journal with the article “Resilience to persecution: a practical and methodological investigation“. In the article, the author analyzes how religious minorities respond to …
