Interfaith leaders held a protest rally in front of the National Press Club in the capital, Dhaka, on March 13. Religious minorities in Bangladesh are coming together to denounce rough treatment they have received in the wake of national elections last month.
People belonging to minority religions and cultural groups have suffered intimidation, violent attacks, even torture and worse since the February 12 general elections in the majority-Muslim country of 80 million, in which Christians make up less than 1 percent of the population.
Source: Religious minorities in Bangladesh blame Islamist hardliners for recent violence | Crux
So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
James 1:19
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