Youcef Nadarkhani
Critics: State Department is ‘AWOL’ on Iran’s religious freedom
By Adelle M. Banks — March 15, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious freedom activists scolded the State Department for not appearing at a hearing Friday on Iran’s treatment of religious minorities and called for greater government involvement in securing the release of people imprisoned there for their faith.
Activists hail release of Christian pastor in Iran, teen in Pakistan
By Adelle M. Banks — September 10, 2012
(RNS) Religious rights activists are hailing the release over the weekend of an Iranian pastor accused of apostasy and a Pakistani girl charged with blasphemy. By Adelle M. Banks.
Friday’s Religion News Roundup: gay baptism; gay marriage in Maryland; black atheists `come out’
By Kevin Eckstrom — February 24, 2012
There's a new kind of Mormon baptism (and Salt Lake City likely won't be amused) and a tragic kind of baptism at an Indiana church. Fidel Castro may come back to Mother Rome, and Southern Baptists say "no thanks" to a BUBBA name.
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