Nigeria needs a decentralised and coordinated security system.
Articles on Persecution
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To early Christians, ancient gladiators were potent symbols of martyrdom, embodying virtue and bravery despite being enslaved.
People don’t lose their expertise when they cross borders. But they often face structural barriers due to language, precarious immigration status and decreased access to support from academia.
Yezidis are an example of what one scholar calls ‘liminal minorities’: faith communities whose religions’ legitimacy is denied by more powerful groups.
Countries could face major legal consequences if they send people to countries where they could suffer harm.
Many young people today know little about the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust, and even less about the murder of Romani communities.
Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian cultures.
Only in the past few years have the stories and experiences of trans people in Nazi Germany come to light.
The absence of reliable quantitative data makes it difficult – if not impossible – to hold Home Affairs, the police and other state entities to account.
From ancient Greece to modern-day TikTok witchcraft, the world of witches has been a changing one.
One woman has used her academic research and personal experience to explore the idea of ‘acceptable’ and ‘undeserving’ refugees.
Recent incidents have been read as a campaign against Christians, but other religious groups feel they are targets too.
Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
International refugee law must be overhauled to consider climate change and include “deadly environments” as a form of persecution.
A scholar of Islam explains how Muslim religious leaders, starting around the year 1050, worked with political rulers to challenge what they considered to be sacrilegious influence on society.
Italian teenager Carlo Acutis, who died at the age of 15, is on the path to becoming a saint. A scholar explains the long history of child saints in the Catholic Church.
Documentary film Welcome to Chechnya looks at the government-sanctioned torture and murder of LGBTQ people in Chechnya – and the activists trying to help them escape.
Social status and location affected Dutch Jews’ chances of survival.
The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority group living China’s Xinjiang region. It is now estimated over one million Uyghurs have been arrested and imprisoned in China’s vast network of “re-education” camps.
Some Australian Christians claim to be persecuted – this is not only wrong, it is an insult to thousands around the world who are at risk because of their religion.
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Associate Professor, New Testament, & Inaugural Director of The Wesley Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Policy, University of Divinity
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Project and Data Specialist, Franklin & Marshall College
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Director of the Center for Opinion Research, Franklin & Marshall College
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Senior Fellow at the ASEAN Studies Center, Universitas Gadjah Mada
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Professor of Government and Chair of the Government Department, Franklin & Marshall College
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Doctoral Researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society (ACMS), University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, James Cook University
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Professor of Political Science, Director of Center for Islamic & Arabic Studies, San Diego State University
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Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor of History, University of Washington
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Professor of Anthropology, Area Studies and Russian, United States Naval Academy