Tag: clerics
Nicaragua releases and deports 19 clerics to the Vatican, including Bishop Rolando Alvarez
Rolando Alvarez, bishop of Matagalpa, in Managua (Nicaragua), May 3, 2018. MOISES CASTILLO / AP These were the few remaining opposition voices in Nicaragua. The government of Daniel Ortega banished…
In Pakistan, transgender people under threat from clerics
Skinny in her jeans, barely wearing makeup, Sahzadi Rai receives people, sitting on the floor, in the premises of the association that made her famous, the Gender Interactive Alliance, located…
“The only way to end the crisis in Iran is to end the intervention of clerics in politics”
Lhe Iranian morality police have been in the news since Mahsa Amini’s arrest for an inappropriate veil and the young woman’s death [le 16 septembre] following the beatings received in its…
extremist convicted of murdering two Shia clerics hangs
A Sunni extremist has been hanged in Iran after being found guilty of murdering two Shia clerics in Mashhad. Iran on Monday hanged a Sunni extremist sentenced to death for…