A crisis is brewing in northeastern Nigeria as local media reports of suspected Islamic militants abducting dozens of victims near a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) emerged this week.
"It was on Sunday that we got information that over 200 displaced people went to get firewood but unfortunately Boko Haram kidnapped them, allowing only the very young and very old to return."
A high court in India rejected a plea to protect a Muslim woman and a Hindu man after ruling that her decision to enter into a live-in relationship with the man is illegal under Muslim law, calling it Zina (fornication) and Haram (an act forbidden by Allah).
A new study conducted by the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance revealed that more and more Iranians are becoming less religious than ever before despite extensive and ongoing repression and propaganda by the Iranian regime.
A woman was saved from an angry mob in Pakistan after she was accused of blasphemy due to the Arabic inscriptions in her dress, which were mistaken for verses in the Quran.
An angry mob in #Pakistan accused a woman who wore a dress adorned with Arabic calligraphy of blasphemy, after mistaking them for Qur'an verses.https://t.co/gkYvZ92nrZ
A woman was arrested and jailed in the United Kingdom for assisting a person in carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM) on a three-year-old British girl during a trip to Kenya.
Read more about the investigation and the support available to anyone who has suffered FGM ⬇ https://t.co/zegwk1QSfQ
Lawmakers in a small Indian state have voted to approve a landmark civil code that will unify personal laws for marriage, divorce, inheritance, and adoption for Hindus, Muslims, and other religious communities, including legislation that will require couples living together to register with the government or face punishment.
US-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria liberated a Yazidi woman after being held in captivity by the Islamic State for a decade, where she was raped and forced to marry extremists.
A brutal chemical attack against a woman and her two children in the United Kingdom is currently under investigation after a man, believed to have been in a relationship with the victim, threw a highly corrosive, alkaline liquid substance at the woman.
London chemical assault: girl, 3, and mother may have life-changing injuries https://t.co/vb1DC37oO1
Just weeks after two Iranian women were given harsh sentences for refusing to follow Iran’s strict and mandatory hijab law, another protester was put to death for allegedly killing a policeman during a protest near Tehran in 2022 amidst the massive demonstrations against the regime after the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police.
Mohammad Ghobadlou: Iran executes protester with mental health condition https://t.co/moz2uazENP
Seven men from a minority community in the city of Belagavi in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka were arrested for assaulting two cousins after they mistook them for an interfaith couple. Two minors were also imprisoned for the alleged offense.
The incident occurred at the city’s Kote Lake Park around 3 PM on January 6.
Karnataka: ‘Moral’ police attack cousins mistaking them to be interfaith couple, 7 arrested https://t.co/c9nRz78wi3