Afghanistan is officially the world's top religious persecutor, with Nigeria not far behind, according to Open Doors USA, a Santa Ana, California–based religious persecution watchdog ...

Fereshta Abbasi, Human Rights Watch March 19, 2025. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to present this testimony on the critical issue of religious freedom in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan should join a list of the “worst of the worst” violators of religious freedom in the wake of the Taliban’s return to power, a U.S. advisory body is recommending to the State ...

Read more about Open Doors' methodology here.Read the full Afghanistan country profile here.. Per RNS, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a federal watchdog group created in ...

I am shocked to learn that conversion to Christianity is a crime in Afghanistan, punishable by death ("U.S. Pressures Kabul to Release Christian Converts," World News, Jan. 27). All people should ...