Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Last year has seen some positive developments in the fight against outdated blasphemy laws. For example, in Ireland, as part of a referendum, a majority voted against the remaining blasphemy laws. In ...

Weeks after 21 churches and hundreds of houses belonging to the minority Christian community were burnt down in Pakistan’s Jaranwala area, Faisalabad police have unearthed the flimsy basis for the ...

Some 79 countries around the world continue to enforce blasphemy laws. And in places such as Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, violation of these measures can result in a ...

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Ireland’s state police recently concluded their investigation of comedian Stephen Fry, who stood accused of criminal blasphemy. In an interview that aired on Irish public television, Fry had described ...

As a self-proclaimed model of how democracy and Islam can flourish hand-in-hand, Indonesia’s exemplary role in the protection of religious minorities remains to be seen. When it comes to freedom of ...

Blasphemy is a strange concept, according to my dictionary it refers to “the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously of God or sacred things.” By that definition, every religious believer constantly ...

Insulting God will no longer be a crime in the Netherlands after the Dutch parliament decided to revoke a decades-old blasphemy law from the statute books. The law, which was drafted in the 1930s, had ...