Humanists International’s latest Freedom of Thought Report (Key Countries Edition) warns that laws restricting “blasphemy” ...

Relatives carry the body of Mushtaq Ahmed, 41, in eastern Pakistan last year. He was stoned to death by a mob after being accused of desecrating the Quran. (Asim Tanveer / Associated Press) On Jan. 17 ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia-- At least 200,000 conservative Muslims rallied in the Indonesian capital on Friday in the second major protest in a month against its minority Christian governor who is being ...

Among the biggest threats to religious freedom worldwide are blasphemy laws, the State Department said in its annual religious freedom report, released Wednesday. "I want to highlight this year the ...

U.S. blasphemy laws reflect a complex fight for the freedom of religion and speech Getty Images Some 79 countries around the world continue to enforce blasphemy laws. And in places such as Afghanistan ...

The “historical reality” of blasphemy restrictions exists “across all schools of mainstream law, Sunni and Shia,” admitted leading hardline Pakistani-American Islamist cleric Yasir Qadhi during a ...