Religion and Politics

Religious Freedom Report Offers Grim Review of Attacks on Faith Groups

NPR’s Sasha Ingber reports, “The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has released its annual report in the aftermath of attacks on mosques in New Zealand, churches in Sri Lanka and synagogues in the United States.” The report identifies more than a dozen countries that engaged in or tolerated violations of religion freedom, among them China and Myanmar. Ingber writes, “In the midst of trade discussions with the United States, Chinese authorities detained as many as 2 million Uighurs, an ethnic and predominantly Muslim minority, the report says.”

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