Bangladesh imposes shutdown as death toll from student protests mounts
Communications blackout persists as deadly crackdown on demonstrators continues in the nation of 170 million. Bangladesh enforced a nationwide curfew…
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Sikhs celebrate harvest festival of Baisakhi, marking new year
Sikhs the world over wear yellow and other bright colours symbolising the spring harvest and the new year. Baisakhi is…
Bengali Muslims are “second class Muslims of Hindu descent”
One Sohel Mazhar wrote a report in Bengali-language national daily newspaper of Bangladesh, “Dainik Janakantha” regarding persecution against Hindu people…
Mass Hindu wedding defies poverty and persecution in Pakistan
Ceremony in the southern city of Karachi joins 122 Hindu couples unable to afford their own weddings. Under a chequered…
Tragic Bomb Blast at Jehovah’s Witnesses Congress in India: pro-Hamas rally ravaging South India
In a deeply disturbing event that has shocked the global religious community, a bomb explosion occurred during a Jehovah’s Witnesses…
Bangladesh government sued over crime against minorities
On 26 May 2023 in San Jose, California in the United States, Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM), an…
Disturbing statistics of forced conversions, murders and rapes of religious minorities in Bangladesh
The 2022 report on atrocities on minorities described an appalling state of religious minorities in Bangladesh, with 319 families affected…
Religious minorities in Pakistan: A dramatic year
Minority rights in Pakistan became a heated topic of discussion making headlines all year round in 2022, according to a…
Bangladesh cricketer Liton Das faces social media wrath for posting Goddess Durga’s photo, asked to convert to Islam
The Hindu cricketer from the neighbouring country recently shared on social media a picture of Goddess Durga on the occasion…
Ex-PM Imran Khan: Hindu girls are being forcefully converted to Islam in Pakistan
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has admitted that forced conversions of young non-Muslim girls are carried out in the…