The Indonesia that President Barack Obama knew as a child, with its culture of pluralism and constitutional protections for religious freedom, provides an important model of religious diversity. TheObama Administration should act quickly to support that tradition,and it can begin by sharply curtailing the use of rhetoric thatcarelessly describes diverse regions based on the faith of dominantgroups.
The end of the Castro regime has not meant an end to severe restrictions on religious freedom in Cuba. New reports detail how bad things are for believers.