MULTAN, Pakistan — A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced four individuals to death for allegedly posting sacrilegious material on social media about Islamic religious figures and the Holy Quran. Judge Tariq Ayub in the city of Rawalpindi declared that blasphemy, disrespect to holy figures, and desecration of the Holy Quran were unforgivable offenses and left […]
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In a joint statement for International Religious Freedom Day, the chairmen of two key committees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s stance on religious freedom as a fundamental human right, describing it as “the synthesis and summit of all other fundamental rights.” Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, chairman of the […]