Friday, August 24, 2007

International Religious Freedom News

The Becket Fund:

1. Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia Upholds Headscarf Ban
2. Turkmenistan: Another Jehovah's Witness Sentenced
3. India: Muslim Clerics Call for Death of Author
4. Iraq: Mosul's Christians Must Flee or Submit
5. Uzbekistan: Sole Legal Jehovah's Witness Community Threatened
6. Pakistan: Kidnappings, Forced Conversions on the Rise

Features:
July 2007 report on instances of persecution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Pakistan

How India's minority Muslims cope with religious discrimination, from the Toronto Star

A profile of the Yazidis, from the Washington Times

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