They beam with joy, these mountain girls whose fate would have otherwise been a life of continual sighing.
In the mountainous Tropoja region of Albania, sons are preferred. Pregnant women are greeted with the expression me një djalë (may it be a son). To ask someone how a job interview went, or whether they were [...]

Iran is an Islamic police state that mandates death for apostasy from Islam. Last March Maryam Rostampour, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, were put in prison and their Bibles confiscated for converting to Christianity.  After five months in prison, they appeared before a judge who threatened to have them executed.  Their reply to him was [...]