national.deseretnews.com: WASHINGTON — Pakistan is a world leader in oppressing religious minorities, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom declared in a report released Wednesday, with Iran closing in on the top spot and Russia becoming a cause for concern with its recent restrictions against Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The 209-page report is the 15th by the USCIRF, and the commission’s chairman said in a teleconference with journalists that the global religious liberty situation is not improving as much as it should, and is in fact getting worse in some nations.
“There’s no shortage of places where abuses occur,” said Robert P. George, a Princeton University legal scholar. “And the news on (the religious liberty) front is very bad: 76 percent of the world’s people live in countries where significant religious freedom violations are tolerated or committed with impunity,” George added, citing January 2014 data from the Pew Research Center.
Religious liberty is a global concern for the United States, George said, not only “for humanitarian reasons, but also because nations that trample on religious freedom provide ample ground for war, poverty and violations of human rights. It’s a practical necessity in the world today.”
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