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 ...

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 ...

Joe gives his opening statement from his debate with LDS apologist Jacob Hansen on The Great Apostacy. Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, and ...

Joe Heschmeyer helps a caller who asks how to defend against those who claim that the church went through a Great Apostasy after the apostles died. My question is about the great apostasy. As a ...

Misconceptions of apostasy in Mormon culture were addressed by religious scholars on Friday at the Harold B. Lee Library auditorium. The scholars hoped their ideas broadened the theological ...

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 ...

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. Riddah (apostasy) does not invalidate ...

(Bloomberg) -- The tiny congregation was deep in prayer when armed officers stormed their church. Four men, converts to Christianity from Islam, were brought to a local police station. All were ...

Nearly half (47%) of the countries and territories in the world have laws or policies that penalize blasphemy, apostasy (abandoning one’s faith) or defamation. Of 198 countries studied by the Pew ...