Despite law, State Department misses deadline to name religious freedom violators
RNS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks on the release of the 2016 annual report on International Religious Freedom on 15th August at the State Department in Washington, DC. PICTURE: AP Photo/Susan Walsh The US State Department often misses its deadline to release a list of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom – or […]
Pakistan should be ‘country of particular concern’, say US senators
World Watch Monitor Pakistan should be designated a “country of particular concern” because of its violations of religious freedom, according to a group of influential US senators. Senators Bob Menendez, Marco Rubio, Chris Coons, Todd Young, Jeff Merkley and James Lankford wrote to US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson ahead of the 13th November deadline […]
US Secretary of State says protecting targets of IS ‘genocide’ a religious freedom priority
RNS Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks on the release of the 2016 annual report on International Religious Freedom on 15th August, 2017, at the State Department in Washington, DC. PICTURE: AP Photo/Susan Walsh. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson underlined the nation’s commitment to protecting religious and ethnic groups targeted by the so-called […]