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Katrina Lantos Swett, chair, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, tells Rediff.com's Aziz Haniffa that the USCIRF will be uncompromising about denying Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi entry into the US. Katrina Lantos Swett, chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan federal government advisory body created by the US Congress to monitor religious freedom abuses abroad, has said the USCIRF will be ...

THE US has expressed concern over increased attacks on religious minorities in Indonesia, but human rights groups accuse Washington of playing down the problem as it looks to forge stronger relations with Jakarta. Recent years have seen increased ...

WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. State Department disappointed religious freedom advocates by again failing to designate in its latest annual report the world's worst violators of the human right. The 2012 International Religious Freedom Report, the ...

Many who live in poverty in Bangladesh resort to extreme measures in order to survive: selling their organs. In the first in-depth study of its kind, MSU's Monir Moniruzzaman details his time spent infiltrating the black market for human organs to ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following remarks on the Senate floor today regarding the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act import sanctions: For the past two decades, I have been coming to the Senate floor ...

/ 05:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Secretary of State John Kerry released on May 20 the annual International Religious Freedom Report for 2012, which documents violence and persecution towards global religious minorities. Whether it be a single deity, or ...

Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday named a Democratic operative well known for his rhetorical jabs at Republicans as the department's new Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. The nomination of Ira Forman, who led the National ...

WASHINGTON — King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew unveiled the Raoul Wallenberg Congressional Gold Medal. The medal unveiled May 9 at the US Treasury in Washington is inscribed with hero of heroes beneath the likeness ...

Saudi women are pictured in this undated photo. A Lebanese man was sentenced to 300 lashes with a whip and six years in prison for his role in helping a Saudi woman convert to Christianity and flee the kingdom in the latest example of the religious ...