International Religious Freedom News (10/2-10/9)

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty:

1. Azerbaijan: Court Fails to Overturn Pastor's Prison Sentence (Oct. 3)
   
2. Iraq: Extremists Beat, Murder "un-Islamic" Women (Oct. 4)
   
3. Uzbekistan: Protestants Detained, Threatened by Police (Oct. 4)
   
4. India: Chhattisgarh's Anti-Conversion Law Reviewed by Attorney General (Oct. 6)
   
5. Nigeria: Playwright's Shari'a Satire Banned (Oct. 7)
   
6. Burmese Junta Shuts Buddhist Seminaries, Orders Novices to Return Home (Oct. 8)
   
7. China: Missing Protestants Re-Appear in Labor Camps (Oct. 8)
   

Features:
An inside look at Nigeria's Shari'a courts, from the BBC

The Patriarch of the Catholic Coptic Church on why Egypt's legal system is difficult for Christians, courtesy of the Catholic Information Service for Africa.

International Religious Freedom Archive

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