The right to exercise religion became worse around the world in 2015, according to a new report from a bipartisan United States commission, affecting Christians, Jews, Muslims, among others, the National Catholic Register website reports today (May 3, 2016).
"By any measure, religious freedom abroad has been under serious and sustained assault since the release of our commission's last annual report in 2015," Robert George, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), stated yesterday. He was speaking at the release of USCIRF's annual religious freedom report.
One of the commission's main tasks is to publish an annual report on the global state of religious freedom, noting the countries with the worst abuses against the freedom to practice religion.
Among the report's recommendations is a list of countries where the worst violations of religious freedom are taking place. The commission's current "Countries of Particular Concern" (CPC) list includes China, Burma, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Eritrea. USCIRF has also asked the State Department to designate seven more nations as CPCs: Central African Republic, Nigeria, Iraq, Vietnam, Egypt, Pakistan, and Syria.
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