Afghan women protest over woman’s public execution

Dozens of Afghan women’s rights activists took to the streets Wednesday to protest against the recent public execution of a young woman for alleged adultery, which was captured in a horrific video.

Dozens of Afghan women’s rights activists took to the streets Wednesday to protest against the recent public execution of a young woman for alleged adultery, which was captured in a horrific video.

A horrific video showing the public execution of a 22-year-old woman accused of adultery in Afghanistan has been condemned by the government as un-Islamic and inhuman.
Citing lack of evidence, the city prosecutor here dismissed an adultery case against a Catholic priest which Church leaders in Pampanga said was the first in the province.
A South Korean Christian pastor was jailed for 18 months for having a decade-long affair with a woman whose wedding he had officiated at, a court said Saturday.
A Catholic priest and his supposed girlfriend did not appear on Friday for the preliminary investigation of a complaint for adultery filed by the woman’s husband on Oct. 12.
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—A man has sued his wife and her supposed lover, a Catholic priest, for alleged adultery and unjust vexation at the Angeles City prosecutor’s office. The man on Wednesday went ahead with filing the complaint although Archbishop Paciano Aniceto, head of the Archdiocese of San Fernando, Pampanga, had suspended Fr. Jeffrey Louie [...]