Afghanistan is officially the world's top religious persecutor, ... A map showing the top 50 countries based on persecution of and discrimination against people of faith, ...

Each week, more than 50 figures from the world of faith engage in a conversation about an aspect of religion. This week's question: Eight years after the United States attacked Afghanistan ...

FILE - Afghan girls attend a religious school that remained open since the 2021 Taliban takeover, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug 11, 2022. The country’s Taliban rulers ordered women nationwide to ...

Religion Hub (The Conversation) — Burqas and male chaperones for women were features of the Taliban’s extremist rule of Afghanistan in the 1990s. Those policies are now back in some districts ...

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 ...

The Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP), the Islamic State’s (ISIS) affiliate in Afghanistan, has repeatedly attacked Hazaras and other religious minorities at their mosques, schools and ...