Malaysia’s first crowdfunded feature film, which deals with racial tensions in the multiethnic nation, has become a runaway hit, amassing more than half a million views within a week of its release via social media.
The Malaysian government has decided to withdraw its appeal against a High Court ruling that allowed non-Muslims to use the word “Allah” to refer to God, the Attorney General’s office confirmed Monday, about a highly divisive issue in the Muslim-majority country.
An International Women’s Day march, a film about a Muslim character exploring other religions’ views on the afterlife, and an interfaith program have all recently become targets of religious conservatives’ outrage in Muslim-majority Malaysia.
Malaysia has set aside more than U.S. $2 million in the 2023 budget to counter Islamophobia by translating and printing the Quran in several languages and distributing copies internationally.
Though the freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by article 19(1)(a) of the Indian Constitution,this freedom does not give us the right to offend people’s sensitivities, particularly religious sensibilities
A well-known secular activist on Tuesday called on the Bangladesh Bar Council to pull the membership of a lawyer who has been filing police complaints against musicians alleging that their performances insult Islam
The two statues are reduced to shatters” said Mgr. Shyamal Bose, Bishop of the Diocese of Baruipur, , in whose diocese the parish is located, after a site visit. “The authorities have assured us that they will arrest the perpetrators as soon as possible and replace all the images”, said the Bishop
A recent surge in blasphemy cases against has raised concerns among human rights groups. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has reported more than 40 cases of blasphemy in Pakistan in the month of August alone
A Senate committee in Pakistan rejected a bill calling for the protection of religious minorities and their rights which therefore will not be scheduled in the Senate’s proceedings and will not be debated or voted. As Agenzia Fides learns, the draft law, called “Protection of Rights of Minorities Bill, 2020” was presented in September by Senator Javed Abbasi, a member of the Pakistan Muslim League-N
Silsilah” Movement in the same direction is to collect and disseminate “Stories of change”: those of people who, passing joyful and painful life events, have changed their relationships with transferors of faiths other than their own and today they walk in the spirit of dialogue and solidarity