Apostasy
APOSTASY is derived from the Greek apostasia, a secondary form of apostasis, originally denoting insurrection or secession (Acts 5:37). In the sense of "rebellion against God" i...
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A Malaysian woman who spent 180 days in a ''rehabilitation
center'' for attempting to renounce Islam spoke Friday of a
''hellish'' experience in that she said made her ''loathe'' Islam
even ...
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JAKARTA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Indonesia's human rights
commission will investigate a report by Christians accusing
officials and Muslim radicals of closing, damaging or burning
churches, a newspaper...
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TEHRAN, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Iran hanged five convicted drug
smugglers on Wednesday, Iranian media reported, the latest in a
series of executions since authorities launched a crackdown on
"immoral be...
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BBC News last night featured an interview about Iran with a highly-presentable young specialist at Hopkins, Trita Parsi. The interview was startling to me for a word that Parsi used. Now that the ...
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Lina Joy has been disowned by her family, shunned by friends and forced into hiding _ all because she renounced Islam and embraced Christianity in Muslim-majority Malaysia.Now, after a seven-year l...
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Freedom of religion took a beating in Malaysia when the
country's highest court ruled Wednesday that a Muslim woman cannot
renounce her faith unless sanctioned by the sharia court, which is a...
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Tehran (dpa) - Tehran on Sunday rejected protests by the European
Union over the increased number of executions in Iran and the death
sentence against two Iranian-Kurdish jo...
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TEHRAN, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Iran hanged five drug dealers in
the eastern city of Birjand on Tuesday, the official IRNA news
agency said, the latest of a series of executions that have been
criticis...
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TEHRAN, Dec 24 (Reuters) - An Iranian teenager sentenced to
death for killing a drug dealer when he was 16 has been released
after the parents of the victim accepted 1.5 billion rials
($160,000) i...
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TEHRAN, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Iran hanged 13 convicted murderers
and drug smugglers on Wednesday, Iranian media reported, the
latest in a series of executions since authorities launched a
crackdown on...
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