Qatar News News Qatar » Religion: Qatar sentences the country's Baha'i leader to 5 years for social media posts
The leader of the small Baha’i community in Qatar was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for social media posts that allegedly “cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion,” ...
News Qatar » Religion: More Persecution of the Baha’i in Qatar
One might have thought that a Middle East war that has badly reduced Qatar’s natural gas exports and greatly harmed its economy would fully occupy the Qatari government. Not so; it has found time ...
News Qatar » Religion: Qatar imprisons Baha'i leader for casting 'doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion'
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remi Rowhani (photo credit: SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT) Qatar has previously been accused of deporting members of the Baha'i ...
News Qatar » Religion: Qatar spent decades building its reputation. Deporting Bahá’ís threatens to undo it.
(RNS) — In recent weeks, nearly half of the few hundred remaining Baha’is in Qatar have been threatened with detentions, non-renewal of work permits and forceful deportation. (RNS) — For eight decades ...
News Qatar » Religion: Planned churches in Qatar necessitate religious diplomacy
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Qatar may best be known as the home of Al-Jazeera television, but an Anglican congregation plans to build the country's first Christian church since Islam's arrival in ...
News Qatar » Religion: EXPLAINER: Islam in Qatar explained ahead of FIFA World Cup
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar is a Muslim nation, with laws, customs and practices rooted in Islam. The country is neither as liberal as Dubai in the United Arab Emirates nor as ...
News Qatar » Religion: NYPD steps up protection of religious sites after Qatar airstrike
The NYPD says it is “tracking the situation unfolding in Qatar” after Israeli airstrikes targeted Hamas leaders in Doha. “Out of an abundance of caution, we’re deploying additional resources to ...
News Qatar » Religion: Qatar sentences the country's Baha'i leader to 5 years for social media posts
The verdict came just two weeks after a group of U.N. human rights experts expressed “serious concern” about the leader's arrest and detention, which they depicted as “part of a broader and disturbing ...
News Qatar » Religion: Qatar imprisons Baha'i leader for casting 'doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion'
Qatar sentenced the leader of the country’s Baha’i community on Wednesday to five years imprisonment after he allegedly made a social media post which was said to “cast doubt on the foundations of the ...