Report Details Killings, Discrimination Against Religious Minorities in Post-Assad Syria
The USCIRF is encouraging the Trump administration to impose conditions on sanction removals that require improvements in religious liberty.
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Former US Religious Freedom Ambassador Sam Brownback Warns of Potential Genocide for Religious Minorities in Afghanistan
In the immediate aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal, he said, the plight of Christians and other religious minorities is ‘now desperate and deadly.’
President Trump to UN: Protect the Unborn and Religious Minorities
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.
US Commission on Religious Freedom: Faith Persecution Increased Worldwide in 2015
The right to exercise religion came under sustained assault around the world in 2015, according to a new report from a bipartisan United States commission, affecting Christians, Muslims and Jews, among others.
Secretary of State John Kerry: Christians and Other Minorities Are Victims of ISIS Genocide
Kerry announced at a March 17 news conference, ‘In my judgment, Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control, including Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims.’
House Votes Unanimously to Declare Atrocities to Christians in the Middle East Constitute Genocide
Congressional vote follows the declaration from the European Union Parliament in early February and comes ahead of the U.S. State Department’s March 17 deadline for announcing if it will issue an official declaration.
Obama Beats War Drums on the Potomac for Islamic State
The president’s proposal for war against the Islamic State faces criticism for going too far and not far enough, but caught in the middle are victims of the fundamentalist group.
