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Podcast: Mission Network News - Asia
Episode: Persecution continues amid calls for change in Afghanistan
Description: Afghanistan (MNN) — A growing number of religious scholars in Afghanistan are openly challenging the Taliban’s restrictions on female education. Even some clerics working for the government have opposed the ban.
Meanwhile, Afghan women sing to protest new Taliban decrees seeking to erase women from wider society. The “vice and virtue” laws, approved two weeks ago, are the Taliban’s first formal declaration since taking power in 2021.
As more voices join the resistance to Taliban rule, some practices carry on just the same. For example, persecution remains at an all-time high.
Veiled women hold Treas...