Twenty-five years ago this month, a unanimous Congress passed the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act. IRFA created a new office at the State Department, headed by an ambassador at large ...

Oct. 27 is International Religious Freedom Day, but neither presidential candidate has shared a vision for how the United States can defend human rights globally.

Religious freedom, or freedom of religion or belief, is a foundational human right that has a growing international movement of government actors, dozens of civil society groups, corporations and ...

¶ Freedom of expression was a farce. ¶ Oil producers were unable to meet the demands of Russia because of the slowness of the Soviet-operated railroads. For each delay the quota of oil demanded ...

Under the first Trump administration, defending international religious freedom seemed to be a higher foreign-policy objective. But Catholics and all people of faith shouldn’t assume this will ...

Peter Burns is executive director of the International Religious Freedom Summit, which will convene February 4-5 in Washington, DC. The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.

Hundreds of people of various faiths from around the world attended the opening day of the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in Washington, D.C., which seeks to raise awareness about ...

International Religious Freedom Summit starts Tuesday in Washington, D.C. It aims to shine a light on religious freedom and highlight the plight of persecuted groups around the world.

Ms. Swett, a former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, said the summit is “going to have a very significant focus on the appalling and frightening upsurge in ...