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  • Time honors Uighur American; House bans imports made by forced Uighur labor

    Time honors Uighur American; House bans imports made by forced Uighur labor

    • Sep 26, 2020

    Nury Turkel, a Uighur American on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, who is a human rights advocate for Uighur Muslims and others persecuted for their religious faith, made Time magazine’s 2020 list of the world’s 100 most influential people.

    By Catholic News Service
  • Bishops hail new declaration eliminating state religion in Sudan

    Bishops hail new declaration eliminating state religion in Sudan

    • Sep 24, 2020

    Sudanese people can now “worship and practice their various religious beliefs without fear,” said the general secretary of the Sudanese bishops’ conference.

    By Francis Njuguna
  • Calls for UN probe of China forced birth control on Uighurs

    Calls for UN probe of China forced birth control on Uighurs

    • Jul 1, 2020

    Politicians around the world have called for a United Nations probe into a Chinese government birth control campaign targeting largely Muslim minorities in the far western region of Xinjiang, even as Beijing said it treats all ethnicities equally under the law.

    By Associated Press
  • Advocates call order advancing religious freedom globally a needed action

    Advocates call order advancing religious freedom globally a needed action

    • Jun 27, 2020

    President Donald Trump’s executive order on religious freedom issued in early June lays out a strategy for expanding U.S. support for international religious freedom that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has been urging, said the chair of the commission.

    By Catholic News Service
  • Religious freedom commission: U.S. cannot ignore northeast Syria

    Religious freedom commission: U.S. cannot ignore northeast Syria

    • Jun 11, 2020

    The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has urged Washington to take concrete actions to safeguard religious freedoms established in northeast Syria, an area imperiled by Turkish troops and allied militants.

    By Dale Gavlak
  • Religious freedom receives a small boost in Sudan

    Religious freedom receives a small boost in Sudan

    • May 21, 2020

    A proposal for an independent religious freedom commission in Sudan is receiving support from international religious rights groups.

    By Crux Staff
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