Religious Freedom

Authoritarian regimes increasingly threaten the cause of international religious freedom, lawmakers and experts said Feb. 4. 

The cause of international religious freedom is tied to global stability and is increasingly threatened by authoritarian regimes, said speakers and participants in the sixth annual International Religious Freedom Summit.

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When they firmly refused, she intervened herself.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has called on the Trump administration “to develop a robust plan” with the Nigerian government to address an escalation of violence.

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The chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ committees on international policy and religious liberty are calling attention to the repression and persecution of religion as being detrimental to peace.

“Religious freedom allows individuals and communities to seek the truth, to live it freely and to bear witness to it openly,” the pope said.

The third meeting of the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Commission examined a range of religious liberty issues.

Religious freedom violations are an early warning sign of where mass atrocities could occur around the globe, a new report said.