Religious Freedom in Focus Globally as Minorities Increasingly Targeted

Human rights experts from around the world are calling on governments to intervene where the religious convictions of minority groups in their countries are being trampled on.

The Centre for Studies on New Religions, headquartered in Italy, and Belgium-based Human Rights Without Frontiers held a seminar to draw attention to what they say has become a worldwide concern. 

The seminar, held in Seoul, South Korea, and titled Intolerance and Discrimination Against New Religious Movements: An International Problem, made reference to specific examples of nations that failed to protect cit...