IRF Summit Details How Nations Can Promote Religious Freedom Abroad: Be ‘Persistent’
Religious freedom advocates addressed how personal anecdotes and persistence are the keys to help leaders promote religious freedom globally.
Religious freedom advocates addressed how personal anecdotes and persistence are the keys to help leaders promote religious freedom globally.
COMMENTARY: While challenges in the United States pale in comparison to the violence faced by our Christian brothers and sisters abroad, they remind us that religious freedom requires constant vigilance.
The 2025 biennial report provides a global overview of the state of religious freedom affecting all faith communities in 196 countries from January 2023 to December 2024.
Hannah Allen testified about a 2019 instance when she was in middle school and the principal prevented students from praying for a classmate who had been injured in a car accident.
Currently, the continent Petrosillo sees as a main concern is Africa, where in recent years religious persecution has skyrocketed.
According to the State Department communications office, the document in question was a fabrication, not an actual draft executive order.
Former U.S. Rep. Mark Walker is a Baptist pastor.
U.S. Commission on International Religious chairman stresses that actionable consequences are needed on the ground.
Several hundred people from dozens of countries who represent many religions are attending the International Religious Freedom to discuss ways in which faith leaders, lawmakers and others can end religious persecution.
EDITORIAL: Christians are often among those who are most in danger when armed conflicts erupt.
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