Blogger Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, found a new ray of hope after the late King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia intervened.
A figure of a soldier praying next to a cross, which was part of a war memorial, was removed from a public park in North Carolina earlier this month.
A court in Egypt recently sentenced a student to three years in prison for declaring on Facebook that he is an atheist and thereby offending Islam.
Muslim intellectual Kassim Ahmad recently lost a legal challenge against Malaysia’s Federal Territories Islamic Department.
Florida’s ban on gay marriage ended and court clerks were quick to issue marriage licenses and conduct wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples.
Turkey recently allowed its minority Syriac Christians to build a new church for the first time since the Ottoman Empire’s fall in 1923.
On December 24, a sentence of capital punishment was handed down to a Muslim man in Mauritania, who wrote a blasphemous article against Islam.
Prosecutors referred journalist Fatima Naoot to court, accusing her of insulting Islam, after she wrote a critical piece on the Eid al Adha tradition.
A mentally ill Muslim man killed his uncle earlier this year after a television program led him to believe he was Jesus.
A 71-year-old priest, who had already served three years for sexually abusing minors at a boarding school, was just sentenced for another three years.
