U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Archives

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

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

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

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

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

May 21, 2020

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

By Crux Staff

Religious freedom watchdog pitches adding India to blacklist

Apr 28, 2020

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is urging that the State Department add India to its list of nations with uniquely poor records on protecting freedom to worship — while proposing to remove Sudan and Uzbekistan from that list.

By Elana Schor

Scholar says religious expression faces ‘open hostility’ on some campuses

Jan 18, 2020

Free religious expression in American higher education is under constant threat from the tyranny of secular progressivism, a leading scholar of religious liberty said Jan. 12.

By Kurt Jensen