The Qur'an neither defined apostasy in legal terms, nor imposed a punishment for it in this life. Apostasy should be understood as a matter of freedom of conscience, rather than a capital crime. The ...

THE most sinister aspect of Jehovah’s Witnesses, as they are portrayed in “Apostasy”, is the way their apocalyptic and authoritarian beliefs are disguised by the bland aesthetics of a corporate away ...

Restrictions on religious beliefs and practices occur in a variety of circumstances, but this study finds that they are particularly common in countries that prohibit blasphemy, apostasy or defamation ...

The government agency said that the two Americans and the wife of one of them belonged to the Assemblies of God Christian missionary organization. It was not revealed whether the wife was arrested or ...

Apostasy is a powerfully sombre British drama set in a small, inward-looking community of devoted Jehovah’s Witnesses. It arrives in UK cinemas not long after First Reformed, and though this debut ...

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. If someone apostates from Islam –we ...

Daniel Kokotajlo’s debut about life among a religious community in Oldham is authentic, sensitive and subtle but has a sledgehammer narrative punch Here is an utterly absorbing and accomplished debut ...

Daniel Kokotajlo makes a daring, devastating debut with this study of an all-female Jehovah's Witness family riven by religious conflict. Born out of Kokotajlo’s own history as a former Jehovah’s ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His Slave and Messenger. First of all, we say that judging ...

A Sudanese court ruling has sparked outrage after it sentenced a heavily pregnant woman to death for committing apostasy by leaving Islam and becoming a Christian. But what is apostasy?: The word ...