Sentences with phrase «against religious minorities»

In the last decade there's been a significant increase in attacks against religious minorities in Indonesia.

(UPDATED) Violence against religious minorities continues to rise, but some Christians have decided to fight back.

Eshhad calculates that attacks on Christians accounted for about 89 % of all attacks against religious minorities in Egypt over the past year, 17 of which were committed by Islamic State or its north African affiliate, Wilayat Sinai.

Critics of the regime say its another example of persecution against religious minorities in the Islamic State.

«There is a legitimate attempt at genocide against religious minorities in the Middle East, and I call upon the United States government and other world leaders to respond more forcefully and immediately to protect these terribly endangered people,» he stated.

«By protecting these laws and failing to bring Shahbaz Bhatti's killers to justice, the Pakistani government is further emboldening extremists to commit ever - more violent acts against religious minorities.

As candidates hit the campaign trail in preparation for July's presidential election, Indonesian rights groups have voiced strong opposition to an increasing number of Shari'ah - inspired laws they say discriminate against religious minorities and violate Indonesia's policy of the Pancasila, or «unity in diversity.»

The violence in Gojra, a town of 150,000 that has long been a headquarters of the Anglican Church of Pakistan, was one of the worst attacks ever against the religious minority.

The Hemlock Society was thus able to depict itself as a proponent of rational choice, while simultaneously exploiting prejudice against the religious minority in general and Catholics in particular.

Religious intolerance in Sri Lanka has rising since early 2000 and in particular since the end of the civil war in 2009, when Buddhist fundamentalist groups such as the Bodu Bela Sena began a campaign of hate speech against religious minorities.

The declaration highlighted that, despite the Russian Constitution guaranteeing every citizen the right to freedom of religion or belief, Russian authorities «continue to foster an atmosphere of intolerance, discrimination and persecution against religious minorities throughout the entire Federation».

The BJP, who is in power in the state, makes it all the more easy for the Hindu radicals to carry on the hate campaign against religious minorities for the political gains.»

At 11:15 a.m., Rep. Dan Donovan and City Councilman Joe Borelli call for the United States to define ISIS crimes against religious minorities as «genocide,» Coptic Orthodox Church, 4095 Amboy Rd., Staten Island.

What the Quebec Charter of Values does is perpetuate the still prevalent systemic discrimination against women occupying positions in high level careers like the public service, not to mention that it perpetuates the systemic discrimination against religious minorities in the province.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) says more than 600 acts of violence against religious minorities, including Christians, have happened since May this year.

Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that ISIS has been committing genocide against religious minorities in the Middle East — just the second time the executive branch has used the term in relation to an ongoing conflict.

Bibi's death sentence sparked outrage among human rights groups, who condemned Pakistan's blasphemy law as a source of violence and persecution against religious minorities.

Attacks against religious minorities have assumed alarming proportions.»

CSW's Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas said: «CSW condemns this and all other incidences of targeted violence against religious minorities, which have outraged civil society in India.

He was repeating the call of Pope Francis and told Vatican Radio the Holy See wanted to urge the world to act to stop the violence against religious minorities and find safety for refuges already forced from their homes.

CSW's Chief Executive, Mervyn Thomas, said: «CSW is urging the US government to raise the issue of widespread hate campaigns by state and non-state actors against religious minorities in talks with Prime Minister Modi, and to insist that justice is done for the victim - survivors of violence against religious minorities.»

She said: «I think that there is a lot of high tension in the country, and there has been a culture of extremism that has allowed the majority population, regardless of what is motivating them, to attack and spiral those attacks against religious minorities.