US releases 2015 International Religious Freedom Report

The U.S. State Department has released its 2015 International Religious Freedom Report. Required by U.S. law, the report contains an assessment of the conditions supporting, or suppressing, freedom of religion or belief in nearly 200 countries, excluding the United States. View the report online The following are extracts from today’s press briefing given by David N. Saperstein, Ambassador-at-Large…

Article 18 – an article of faith

Lord Alton of Liverpool has written a blog for CTS Catholic Compass: Earlier this year I launched a report in Parliament cataloguing the systematic campaign targeting Pakistan’s religious minorities, particularly Christians and Ahmadis. Among those targeted was Shahbaz Bhatti, the murdered Catholic Minister for Minorities. The report is a catalogue of outright persecution. It followed…