Topic: U.S. Department Of State
The United States has called for the immediate release of a frail dissident priest who was rearrested in Vietnam after being released for medical treatment.Nguyen Van Ly -- who prosecutors say was a founding member of a banned pro-democracy group -- was ...
A US commission called Thursday for Egypt to be put on a blacklist for lack of religious freedom, saying attacks on Coptic Christians and other minorities have worsened despite political changes.In an annual report, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom said ...
The White House Thursday weighed whether to appeal directly to a Florida pastor to call off a planned Koran burning ceremony amid mounting fears it will unleash a wave of violence.US President Barack Obama warned if the incendiary gesture goes ahead as ...
NYC imam makes U.S.-sponsored goodwill tour of Mideast as furor rages over mosque back homeThe furor over the planned mosque and Islamic center near ground zero has put Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf in a curious position: At the same time he is ...
WASHINGTON (RNS) When the Baptist World Alliance held its global conference in Hawaii earlier this month, it was missing about 1,000 attendees from around the world. "I was deeply saddened" by the visa problems, said the Rev. Clifton Kirkpatrick, the former president ...
State Department sending ground zero mosque imam to discuss religious tolerance in Middle EastThe State Department says it's sending the imam behind controversial plans for a mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks on a religious outreach trip to the Middle ...
US officials have reiterated Washington's disagreement with a measure approved by the lower house of France's National Assembly banning the use of face-covering Islamic veils in public."We do not think that you should legislate what people can wear or not wear associated ...
State Department clears way for return of 2 Muslim scholars once accused of ties to terrorismTwo prominent Muslim scholars once accused of having ties to terrorism can reapply to travel to the United States now that the State Department has concluded they ...
Religious freedom experts called for more specifics in the State Department's policies on international religious liberty, but welcomed a new report that highlights abuse faced by people of faith throughout the world. Released by the State Department on Monday (Oct. 26), the ...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week named a new envoy to deal with the Muslim world but her communications staff failed to make the nomination public.State Department spokesman Ian Kelly only released the information when journalists asked him during the ...
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