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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a joint press conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister following their talks in Kyiv on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP.)

Biden administration under fire in Nigeria over religious freedom report

Jul 2
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Opposition lawmakers demanding a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the violence in Manipur state carry placards and a banner with name of “INDIA” outside the Parliament building in New Delhi, India, July 24, 2023. (Credit: AP Photo.) 2 of 3 | FILE- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives on the opening day of the monsoon session of the Indian parliament in New Delhi, India, July 20, 2023. For three months, the strongman leader has been largely silent on ethnic violence that has killed over 150 people in Manipur, a remote state in India’s northeast. That’s sparked a no-confidence motion against his government in Parliament, where his party and allies hold a clear majority. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File) Read More 3 of 3 | FILE- Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference after he was expelled from parliament after a court convicted him of defamation and sentenced him to two years in prison for mocking the surname Modi in an election speech, in New Delhi, India, March 25, 2023. India’s Parliament on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023 reinstated top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi as a lawmaker three days after the country’s top court halted his criminal defamation conviction for mocking the prime minister’s surname. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File) Read More

U.S. State Department cites human rights violations in India

Apr 25
Nirmala Carvalho

Miami prelate says Nicaragua’s dictatorship has gone ‘off the rails’

Jan 4
John Lavenburg

U.S. bishops call for action to stop anti-Catholic persecution in Nicaragua

Apr 21, 2023
John Lavenburg

African faith leaders ask U.S. to help solve security, humanitarian crisis in Sahel region

Mar 23, 2023
John Lavenburg

Leader of US bishops condemns crackdown on church in Nicaragua

Feb 22, 2023
John Lavenburg

US watchdog urges special attention to anti-Christian carnage in Nigeria

Jan 25, 2023
John Lavenburg

US report faults Nicaragua for severe violations of religious freedom

Jun 4, 2022
Inés San Martín

Ukraine official: Zelenskyy meets top-level US delegation on Orthodox Easter

Apr 25, 2022
David Keyton

US expands travel bans on Chinese officials for persecution

Mar 22, 2022
Matthew Lee