Faces of Persecution

Faces of Persecution: Exploring Global Religious Oppressions is an educational documentary series of inspiring, insightful interviews with global scholars and experts, and victims of religious persecutions, amplifying the relentless advocacy of grassroots organizations and experts championing the rights of multi-faith religious communities. To reverse the uptick of global religious hate crimes, the series will embolden viewers with a Call to Action to mobilize increased public awareness.

While countless organizations and brave souls are committed to raising awareness on religious freedom for all, systematic religious persecution is at an exponential rise. This documentary series explores the faces of persecution around the world.

State-sponsored persecution by autocratic governments wage attacks on ethnic or religious minorities utilizing state-of-the-art warfare and technology. Rogue individuals/groups are committing religious hate crimes–abduction of girls, forced conversions, bombings of religious houses of worship, forced indoctrinations– fueled by extremist teachings and misinterpreted religious tenets. And ill-educated individuals are carrying on ages-old transgenerational hatred of the “other” due to lack of proper and true religious literacy. Besides bigotry, prejudice, murder, and genocides, both state-sponsored and non-state-sponsored persecutors carry on systematic and orchestrated cultural and religious heritage destruction with intent to erase centuries-old traces of the other religious or ethnic groups.