Religious minorities

Iran’s Baha’i, Christian facilities targeted by discriminatory policies, CSW tells ‘Post’

Human rights groups have warned that regime authorities detained dozens of Baha’is in arbitrary arrests, many without charge, and denied them communication with their families or legal counsel.

FOR IRAN’S Christian community, the postwar crackdown has been particularly severe, with at least 50 members detained by authorities. Here, Iranian Christians take part in the New Year prayer ceremony at a church in Tehran last January.
 February 1 marks World Hijab Day. (Illustrative).

Austrian government presses ahead with planned headscarf ban in schools

 New Year's Eve celebrations at the Saint Sarkis Cathedral in Tehran, 2023; illustrative.

Tehran has arrested at least 21 Christians since Israel ceasefire, non-profit claims

 JPost Asks Anything: How has the Gaza War impacted Palestinians and Israeli Arabs?

'The war in Gaza, will come to us:' Palestinians, Israeli Arabs share how war has impacted them


Saudis release human rights activist Raif Badawi after 10 years in prison

Opinion: "A major development and one for which Evangelical leaders have been ... praying."

 Screenshot from Twitter account of Raif Badawi’s wife, Ensaf Haidar

Canada court voids part of disputed Quebec law on religious symbols

The 2019 law prohibits many civil servants, including police officers, from wearing religious symbols such as hijabs and turbans on the job.

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Yazidis denounce Syrian ruling requiring them to follow Islamic law

Members of religious minority reportedly requested their own court for personal issues, say their faith is thousands of years old.

Mourners stand next to the coffins with the remains of people from the Yazidi minority, who were killed by Islamic State militants, after they were exhumed from a mass grave, to bury them in Kojo, Iraq February 6, 2021.

US should stay in Eastern Syria, a refuge of religious freedom - expert

“There is a way forward. It is a win-win for the US and the autonomous administration," says Nadine Maenza, a US commissioner.

A man walks past the The Martyrs Church in the city centre of Raqqa, September 19, 2013

British tribunal to decide whether veganism is a protected belief

"The way I treat my belief in ethical veganism is no different to the way those who practice a religion treat the rules which govern their religion," the claimant said.

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Women underrepresented in workforce of state’s religious agencies

However, women are grossly underrepresented in senior positions in those agencies.

A Tunisian Muslim woman buys food from a Jewish restaurant in DjerbaCyrine Ben Said (left) and Amnia Ben Khalif, Muslim Tunisians, light candles during a religious ceremony at El Ghriba, the second oldest Jewish synagogue in Africa

No more sanctioning slavery and oppression

A call to release Eritrean religious prisoners by September 12, the Geez New Year

A boy playing the role of a prisoner has his hands tied during a rally marking Palestinian Prisoners' Day April 17, 2019.

What I told a recent State Department conference

What’s the state of religious freedom in Israel and the Arab world?

AN ARAB woman walks past a Jewish couple at the Western Wall

Religious freedom in Israel: Christianity doing well - WATCH LIVE

The discussion is termed "Holy to Many: Views on Religious Freedom."

Druze-Israelis protest the Nation-State Law

Trying to beat the Middle Eastern heat… modestly

For Orthodox Jewish women, tzniut, or modesty, involves wearing shirts that cover the collar bone and have three-quarter sleeves past the elbows.

Arab women wearing burkinis at a beach in Tel Aviv