SHAHBAZ BHATTI (1968-2011), Pakistan's federal minorities minister, a Christian, was gunned down in the capital city of Islamabad. He was a Pakistani patriot and a voice for understanding who was dedicated to making his country a beacon of democratic tolerance.

PERSECUTED - THE GLOBAL ASSAULT ON CHRISTIANS – by Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, Nina Shea

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOR THE MUSLIM WORLD: THE UNLIKELY ACTIVISM OF KAMAL FAHMI
Kamal Fahmi left his 35 years of formal missionary work trading it for a new cause: Religious Freedom.

COUNTRIES WHERE APOSTASY AND BLASPHEMY LAWS are applied today. Click on map to see a larger view.

WITHOUT FREEDOM TO CHANGE RELIGION there is no religious freedom. Apostasy and blasphemy laws in Islam strip the individual from the right to have freedom of thought, religion and conscience, and deprive the ex-Muslim the right to exist in an Islamic state.
Open Letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

“As representatives of the international community, we stand together in support of the interconnected freedoms of thought, conscience, religion or belief, and expression.”