For 25th year, US State Department reports on threats, triumphs in religious freedom
United StatesRNS US State Department officials continued to point to religious freedom atrocities in Russia, China and Afghanistan as they released their annual report on threats to religious liberties across the globe. “Far too many governments continue to freely target faith community members within their borders,” said Rashad Hussain, ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, at […]
US targets Russian mercenary group over religious freedom
Washington DC, USAP The Biden administration on Friday placed a well-known Russian paramilitary organisation on a list of religious freedom violators alongside a number of notorious terrorist organisations. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, from right, Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Representative. Barbara Lee, a Democrat from […]
US to support Haiti police and deliver aid to counter gangs
Washington DC, USReuters The United States on Wednesday said it will boost support for the Haitian police as they battle armed gangs and will speed up delivery of aid to a country suffering from crippling shortages of basic goods due to a gang blockade of a key fuel terminal. Haitian gangs have for a month […]
As genocide designation becomes a political football, Uighur activists push for action
RNS On his final day in office, then President Donald Trump and his administration declared China’s treatment of its Uighur population a genocide. So far, President Joe Biden has taken the United States in a different direction from his predecessor on almost every issue at hand, but on this question Biden’s foreign policy team has […]