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  • Religious freedom watchdog pitches adding India to blacklist

    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

    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
  • Smith, USCIRF welcome State Department report on religious persecution

    Smith, USCIRF welcome State Department report on religious persecution

    • Dec 24, 2019

    A Catholic member of Congress and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom welcomed the U.S. Department of State’s redesignation of nine nations as “countries of particular concern” for carrying out or tolerating “systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of religious freedom.”

    By Catholic News Service
  • Religious freedom trackers chafe at congressional proposal

    Religious freedom trackers chafe at congressional proposal

    • Nov 22, 2019

    The federal commission that tracks global religious freedom is facing a rift with Capitol Hill over a proposal that some members warn would hurt its effectiveness.

    By Elana Schor
  • Religious freedom panel examines ways to protect holy sites worldwide

    Religious freedom panel examines ways to protect holy sites worldwide

    • Oct 25, 2019

    In light of continued attacks on houses of worship and holy sites around the world, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom held an Oct. 23 hearing at the Capitol to learn ways to deter such attacks.

    By Mark Pattison
  • Militias’ ongoing harassment of Christians in Iraq, Syria focus of hearing

    Militias’ ongoing harassment of Christians in Iraq, Syria focus of hearing

    • Oct 1, 2019

    The genocide conducted by the Islamic State against Christian communities in Iraq and Syria has turned into continued harassment by Iran-backed militias and shows no signs of abating soon.

    By Kurt Jensen
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