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Just a Bill: Religious Freedom Consensus Rarely Voted into...... | News & Reporting


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.
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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. ....

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Briefing with Senior Official Daniel Nadel, Office of International Religious Freedom on Release of the 2020 International Religious Freedom Report — Agenparl


05/12/2021 03:17 PM EDT
Daniel Nadel, Senior OfficialOffice of International Religious Freedom
Washington, D.C.
Press Briefing Room
MR NADEL: Good morning, and Eid Mubarak to all of our Muslim friends celebrating the end of Ramadan. Thank you, Secretary Blinken, for those clear and forceful remarks underscoring our unyielding commitment to promote and defend – excuse me – let me take this off so you can hear me – to promote and defend freedom of religion or belief for all. I am also very pleased to recognize our reports coordinator Bob Boehme and his extraordinary editing team for their efforts to make this year’s report – all 2,397 pages – a reality. ....

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US says Xinjiang is essentially an 'open-air prison'


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A top State Department official slammed China s treatment of Uyghur Muslims on Wednesday, accusing Beijing of turning the Xinjiang province into an open-air prison during a press conference.
Reuters reported that Daniel Nadel, a spokesman for the agency s Office of International Religious Freedom, accused Beijing of installing surveillance measures around Xinjiang and turning the entire region into an open-air prison.
People s movements are closely tracked. You have minders who have been assigned to live with Uyghurs to keep tabs on them. You have people going to the market who have to check in every time they go to a different market stall, he said Wednesday at a press conference. ....

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