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May 18, 2021 Press Release
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission joint hearing, “China, Genocide and the Olympics,” which also featured testimony from pro-democracy and human rights experts. Below are the Speaker’s remarks:
Speaker Pelosi. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for bringing us together on this very important issue. It s about our values. It s about who we are as a country. It s about more than words. It s about actions. Thank you, and I thank you for the years of service that you have given to this. You never have faltered in all of it.
Just a Bill: Religious Freedom Consensus Rarely Voted into Law
Latest IRF scorecard grades each member of US Congress, as State Department releases annual report on 200 countries and territories.
Jayson Casper| Image: Andrew Harnik / Pool / AP
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a news conference to announce the annual International Religious Freedom Report at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken called out Saudi Arabia.
The Gulf kingdom “remains the only country in the world without a Christian church, though there are more than a million Christians living [there],” he stated yesterday.
Such high-level criticism of the key US ally is a departure from the foreign policy of the Trump administration, though the State Department has listed the oil-rich nation as a Country of Particular Concern on international religious freedom (IRF) since 2004.
21Wilberforce releases International Religious Freedom Congressional Scorecard
Asia topped the list for IRF legislative activity in the 116th Congress
Embattled religious minorities and dissenting members of majority religious communities suffer extraordinarily – including harassment, discrimination, and genocide as freedom of religion or belief has deteriorated worldwide. Congress has been an advocate for this essential human right and sought to ensure continued support for it as a central focus of U.S. foreign policy.
21Wilberforce tracks the progress of Congressional efforts regarding international religious freedom or belief and has just published the International Religious Freedom Congressional Scorecard for the 116
th Congress.
The scorecard evaluates Members of Congress on their public support for international religious freedom or belief during the 116th Congress based on their sponsorship of bills, resolutions, and amendments, related caucus work, and votes in the