Sentences with phrase «violence against religious minorities»

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

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.»

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

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To claim that the lighting of a national Christmas tree each year makes this country «a Christian nation,» while its powerful systematically oppress the poor, turn away refugees, incite violence against religious and ethnic minorities, molest and harass women and girls and call them liars when they dare to speak up, is, in the words of the prophet Amos, sickening to God.

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.

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.

He said the violence against Christians and other religious minorities had left him «in dismay and disbelief».

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that Islamic State violence against Christians, Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East was genocide.