bloggers
Harvest Bible Chapel sues bloggers for spreading ‘false information’
By Bobby Ross Jr. — November 8, 2018
(RNS) — Megachurch pastor James MacDonald and his congregation filed suit recently, claiming two bloggers and a freelance writer were spreading false information about the church.
Bangladesh police shoot dead militant who allegedly murdered bloggers, gays
By RNS staff — June 20, 2016
Bangladesh, a deeply religious but moderate Muslim-majority country of 160 million people, is struggling to control attacks by Islamist groups on bloggers critical of extremism, atheists and religious minorities.
Bangladesh’s deadly attacks terrify its religious minorities
By Akhtar Ali — June 13, 2016
(RNS) Separate targeted attacks on Hindus, Christians, Buddhists and atheists have left the country reeling.
Bangladesh professor hacked to death by Islamic militants
By RNS staff — April 23, 2016
DHAKA — Police said the murder was similar to other attacks on secular bloggers by Islamist militants. But fellow university teachers said the victim never spoke or wrote anything about religion or Islam.
Liberal Bangladeshi blogger killed by machete-wielding attackers
By Reuters — April 7, 2016
DHAKA, Bangladesh -- The slaying of law student Nazimuddin Samad, 28, follows the killing last year of five secular writers and a publisher, including a Bangladeshi-American activist.
British bishop declares solidarity with persecuted atheists
By Adelle M. Banks — March 8, 2016
(RNS) “History has shown time and time again that when one minority group is oppressed with impunity, others soon face the same fate,” wrote Bishop Declan Lang.
Saudi blogger Raif Badawi wins EU’s Sakharov rights prize
By Reuters — October 29, 2015
(Reuters) A Jeddah court handed Badawi his sentence in 2012 after he criticized the Saudi clergy in a blog and called for changes in the way religion is practiced in Saudi Arabia.
3 Islamic militant suspects arrested in murders of secular bloggers in Bangladesh
By Reuters — August 19, 2015
Bangladesh's elite forces arrested three suspected Islamist militants for masterminding the killings of two secular bloggers in the Muslim-majority nation.
Singapore teen blogger guilty of insulting Christians
By Jane Onyanga-Omara — May 12, 2015
Yee posted a YouTube video that said Christians were "power-hungry and malicious" people who "deceive others into thinking that they are compassionate and kind."
Christian Britain * Breastfeeding pope * Stoned Brunei: April’s Religious Freedom Recap
By Brian Pellot — May 5, 2014
Politicians and pundits debate whether Britain is a Christian state. A Polish art group is taken to court for “blasphemously” painting Pope St. JP2 breastfeeding a priest. And Brunei implements its first phase of harsh new Shariah penalties. All this and more in April’s global recap.
Funeral director Caleb Wilde posts irreverent thoughts on death
By Elizabeth E. Evans — March 13, 2014
(RNS) Caleb Wilde is an undertaker with a media presence tailor-made for the age of disclosure.
The Vatican sets rules for new Internet domain: sorry, Catholic bloggers
By Eric J. Lyman — November 8, 2013
ROME (RNS) The Vatican has said that use of the new “.catholic” Internet domain will be limited to official organizations such as Catholic churches, parishes, schools and the like, and that individual Catholics or bloggers won’t be allowed to use it.
Update: Mormon blogger, facing excommunication, resigns from church
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — October 23, 2012
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Rather than wait for possible excommunication from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon blogger David Twede has resigned his membership. By Peggy Fletcher Stack.
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