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Ten Poor Clares nuns in Belorado, Spain, were excommunicated in June 2024 by the archbishop of Burgos following a property dispute with the Archbishop of Burgos (Mario Iceta). [153] On July 4, 2024, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Vatican's former apostolic ambassador to the United States, was excommunicated for schism. The Vatican ...
The descriptive use of the term religious persecution is rather difficult. Religious persecution has occurred in different historical, geographical and social contexts since at least antiquity. Until the 18th century, some groups were nearly universally persecuted for their religious views, such as atheists, [37] Jews [38] and Zoroastrians. [39]
The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church originated in the 20th century to raise awareness of the increasing violence, torture, death, "worship restrictions, public humiliation, and social isolation" that some Christians face in atheist states, such as in North Korea, as well as in South Asia and the Middle East; [3] [11] the ...
Jul. 27—Sixty-one of the world's 196 nations actively persecute Christians who, ostracized, imprisoned, beaten, tortured, raped and murdered, stay just as determined to hold onto to their faith ...
[205] [206] The actions against women were supported by Pakistan's religious leaders, who declared that Bengali women were gonimoter maal (Bengali for "public property"). [207] As a result of the conflict, a further eight to ten million people, mostly Hindus, [ 208 ] fled the country to seek refuge in neighbouring India.
Most of the victims are civilians, [20] [21] including over 25,000 women and children [22] [23] and 167 journalists. [24] Thousands more dead bodies are under the rubble of destroyed buildings. [25] [26] [27] By March 2024, 374 healthcare workers in Gaza had been killed. [28] More than 10,000 presumed dead under rubble [29]
Christians remain the most persecuted religious group in the Middle East, and Christians in Iraq are “close to extinction”. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] According to estimates by the US State Department , the number of Christians in Iraq has fallen from 1.2 million 2011 to 120,000 in 2024, and the number in Syria from 1.5 million to 300,000, falls ...
In August 2024, the US Department of Homeland Security announced that it had allocated $454.5 million for the 2024 fiscal year to securing Jewish religious institutions in light of rising antisemitism. [14] This is a $150 million increase from the 2023 budget. [14]