by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 3, 2019 | News
The entanglement of faith traditions with national governments fueled religious freedom violations in 2018, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) annual report for 2019 released on April 29. State repression of religious...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 26, 2018 | News
Religious freedom has continued to deteriorate in many nations over the past year, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) annual report for 2018 released on April 25. “This ongoing downward trend often intersected...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 11, 2017 | News
Laws against blasphemy remain “astonishingly widespread” around the world, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Such legislation is “detrimental to religious freedom,” often leads to human rights abuses,...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 27, 2015 | News
Religious liberty restrictions were passed by the parliament of Burma (also known as Myanmar) on Aug. 21. The legislation, set forth by Buddhist monks and first drafted in late May, would increase government control over religious conversion. The proposal was...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 7, 2015 | News
The intersection of humanitarian crises, conflicts and religious persecution was highlighted in a new report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). USCIRF “recommended that the United States designate all five of these nations...
