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Danish activist Rasmus Paludan has been sentenced to four months in prison in Sweden over alleged comments made during Qur’an burning protests.

Swedish authorities accused Iran on Tuesday of being responsible for thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for revenge over the burnings of Islam’s holy book in 2023.

Paris Olympics officials have announced the installation of a bell made for the 2024 games into Notre Dame Cathedral to ring in the faithful.

A 61-year-old man has been jailed for 18 months after being filmed shouting, “Who the f*** is Allah?” during a London anti-migration riot.

Some U.S. Catholics are protesting a new cover photo of Rihanna dressed as a sexy Catholic nun, which many deem a “blasphemous” assault on religious sisters.

A Presbyterian church in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, caught fire shortly after services on Good Friday, forcing the local Christian population to hold Easter services in a hotel and raising suspicions of arson.

Three years after sparking Muslim protests after showing his class a caricature of Muhammad, a religious studies teacher is still in hiding.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) warned in its annual report that religious freedom deteriorated around the world in 2023, a net loss driven by increasingly vicious crackdowns from theocracies like Iran and authoritarian regimes like China and Cuba.

A French juvenile court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their roles in the 2020 beheading teacher Samuel Paty by an Islamic extremist.

A group that promotes “normalizing abortion” has lined up six billboards on Interstate 55 through pro-life states leading to Illinois, one of which falsely reads, “God’s plan includes abortion.” 

Prime Minister of Pakistan Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar used his address to the United Nations to demand that nations outlaw “Islamophobia.”

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, used most of his address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday for boilerplate about sustainable development, rising levels of income inequality, and calls for other nations to resolve their differences through negotiation rather than war. 

Dutch prosecutors demanded a 12-year prison sentence for a former Pakistani cricketer over calls to kill Islam critic Geert Wilders.

Catholics prayed the rosary in protest across the street from a so-called “gospel” drag show taking place at a restaurant in Washington, DC, on Saturday.

A mob reportedly made of up as many as 10,000 men began burning down, looting, and otherwise violently assaulting Christian communities in Jaranwala, Pakistan, on Wednesday in response to reports that a Christian man had allegedly desecrated a Quran.

In a capitulation in the battle for freedom of speech, Denmark is set to prohibit the burning of the Qur’an in front of embassies.

Hundreds of protesters attempted to storm Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone following a Qur’an burning in Copenhagen.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani expelled the Swedish ambassador on Wednesday, even as a mob of protesters waving photos of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire.

Islamic clerics have infiltrated the UK to push an anti-blasphemy agenda, threatening the national security of the country, a report found.

Thousands of Muslims protested in major cities in Iraq on Friday, condemning the burning of a Qur’an during a protest in Sweden.

Maulana Nigar Alam, a 40-year-old Muslim cleric and religious scholar, was beaten to death by a Muslim mob on Sunday in the northwestern village of Sawaldher near the Afghan border.

A Chinese man arrested for blasphemy against Islam in Pakistan two weeks ago was released on bail on Friday — a very unusual arrangement in Pakistan, where people accused of blasphemy are almost never released before trial for fear of enraging Muslim lynch mobs.

Four pupils have been suspended from a high school in the UK after a Quran they purchased was said to have sustained a small tear.

Police in the Swedish city of Stockholm have imposed an indefinite ban on granting permission for protests involving the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an, supposedly due to concerns over threats to Swedish security.

A group of hackers linked to Sudan took credit for denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the websites of Swedish rail companies in revenge for burnings of the Islamic Qur’an.

A mob estimated to have attracted over 800 people stormed a police station in Punjab, Pakistan, this weekend, breached the building through a hole in the roof, and extracted a man arrested for allegedly committing blasphemy, beating him to death in public.

A Canadian Catholic school pupil who was suspended last November for saying there are only two genders was arrested this week after attempting to return to class without renouncing his beliefs.

Salman Rushdie has spoken out for the first time since a radical Islamic terror attack in New York prompted by a decades-old Iranian fatwa left him near death.

Populist Reconquest MEP Nicolas Bay has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity after allegations of “hate speech” over criticism of a mosque development in northern France.

Norwegian authorities cancelled a Qur’an burning protest that was set to take place on Friday after Turkish officials summoned the Norwegian ambassador in Ankara.

The Russian government’s embassy in Denmark has condemned protests in the Scandinavian country that saw the Qur’an burned, declaring the “mockery” of Islam should not be covered by the freedom of expression.

Some pro-life advocates were met with blasphemous screams as they prayed during the 50th annual March for Life.

The pop star Madonna has launched an attention-grabbing photo montage in Vanity Fair Italia, posing variously as the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ and featuring dolls apparently representing dead babies.

A coalition of pro-life organizations is countering California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) multi-state “blasphemous” abortion billboard campaign with signs of their own.

A teacher in the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) has bragged on social media about having a pride flag and depictions of Jesus Christ as transgender in a prayer space in his class.

The website for French magazine Charlie Hebdo was reportedly hacked in the wake of publishing cartoons mocking the Islamist regime in Iran.