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.

religious freedom in afghanistan ‘drastically deteriorated’ after taliban took over, us commission says Taliban fighters guard the site of an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 18, 2022 ...

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 ...

An independent U.S. federal government agency reported Wednesday that Afghanistan has experienced a “continual and significant" decline in religious freedom under the de facto Islamist Taliban rule.

But there are still Christians in Afghanistan. In our fast-moving, attention-deficit, “What’s next?” world, it may seem a long time since we thought about Afghanistan.

Over the last year, the Hazara, an ethno-religious minority group in Afghanistan, have been subjected to increased attacks. In August 2022, Islamic State–Khorasan Province (IS-K) claimed ...

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. Afghanistan's Refugees. Clip: Season 5 | 3m 12s. People in Afghanistan desperately need help as they try to find a better quality of life.

As the Hazara continue to face severe threats in Afghanistan, other religious minorities are virtually extinct - many were forced to flee as the Taliban was taking over Afghanistan in August 2021 ...

Senior religious clerics supporting the Taliban and the rival Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) have recently become the primary targets in the widening conflict between the two militant groups.

KABUL — When Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers headed to the country’s first “international climate change conference” earlier this year in the eastern city of Jalalabad, few foreign guests ...

In Genesis 22:3, 12 and 16, God refers to Isaac as Abraham’s only son. God never said this because it isn’t true. His first-born son was Ishmael, son of Hagar, and beginner of the Islamic ...

Taliban authorities have barred chess across Afghanistan until further notice over concerns it is a source of gambling, which is illegal under the government's morality law, a sports official said ...