Hi.
Earlier this week I wrote to you about Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos from Nicaragua. He is a vocal critic of human rights abuses in Nicaragua and was sentenced to over 26 years in prison on false charges of conspiracy and spreading false information. Thankfully, he was released into exile in January.
We meet courageous people like Bishop Álvarez all the time. We think of:
- Rev Dr Hkalam Samson, who is in prison in Myanmar/Burma, jailed for speaking the truth about the barbaric atrocities perpetrated by the Myanmar military against the people of Myanmar, particularly amongst religious minorities.
- Feng Yunqing, who made videos of the Chinese government’s persecution of Falun Gong, Christian house churches and human rights activists, and was jailed for seven years and six months. She remains in Wuhan Women’s Prison today.
- Luka Binniyat, who is currently on bail awaiting trial in connection with an article he had written criticising the Kaduna State government’s inadequate response to attacks on communities in southern Kaduna in September 2021.
Your gift of £4 will enable us to work on cases like Rev Samson’s, Feng Yunqing’s, Luka Binniyat’s and many others suffering for their beliefs around the world.
Your gift will enable us to continue documenting abuses of religious freedom and training people in places such as Nicaragua and Nigeria to record these abuses themselves. It will also help us to take these first-hand accounts and our analysis of a country’s track record of violations to decision-makers in the United Nations, European Union and UK Parliament to demand that those perpetrating these violations are held to account.
Give £4 and help us to keep gathering evidence and speaking up for people who have been targeted for their beliefs - until they are free to practise their faith without fear.
We can all play a part in bringing justice to our world. Will you join us?
Grace and peace,
Scot Bower
CEO
P.S. Give £4, or whatever you can, and help us work on cases like Rev Samson’s, Feng Yunqing’s, Luka Binniyat’s and so many others who are being targeted for their beliefs.
