Tag: State Department
Patriarch of Serbia Irinej at the US State Department
Church of Serbia - 8/3/2020 Senator Samuel Brownback, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, with his associates, received His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, at ... Read More
Tactics of double standards: how USA interferes in life of Orthodox Church
Ex-US Ambassador to Ukraine, US Ambassador to Greece Jeffrey Payette Union of Orthodox Journalists - 11/3/19 What is behind the concern of US officials about ... Read More
US State Dept: North Korea Arrests and Tortures Thousands for Religion Practices
© Sputnik/ Iliya Pitalev Sputniknews - 17/8/17 According to a new report by the US State Department, the North Korean government has abused, tortured and ... Read More
US State Department Says No to Iraqi Christians
By Faith J. H. McDonnell - May 2015 Writing in April in USA Today about the murder of 12 Christian migrants thrown into the sea ... Read More
U.S. Religious Freedom Commission Calls for Criminal Prosecution of ISIS
http://www.loonwatch.com/ By Mark A. Kellner http://www.deseretnews.com - 1/5/15 A U.S. government commission is calling for international prosecution of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ... Read More
Christians Under Threat in Syria: US State Department
By Jen Psak U.S. Department of State - 4/3/14 The United States deplores continued threats against Christians and other minorities in Syria, who are increasingly targeted ... Read More
Egypt’s Coptic churches on alert during Christmas holidays
Author Walaa Hussein Translator(s)Rani Geha December 2013 With the approach of Christmas celebrations, the Egyptian Church is tense in anticipation of violence and bombings against Coptic churches, ... Read More
Russian Foreign Ministry says U.S. State Department’s religious freedom report politicized
Moscow, May 24, Interfax - The 2012 international religious freedom report of the U.S. State Department has been done superficially and does not reflect the ... Read More
Russian Church Slams US State Department’s Unfair Criticism – OpEd
By: VOR 1/8/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church and the Council of Muftis of Russia have both slammed the US State Department’s annual report on international ... Read More
The World’s Worst Religious Persecutors – OpEd
By Nina Shea 20/3/2012 Today, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (Uscirf) released its 14th annual report, which it is mandated to do under ... Read More
American Coptic Association letter to Hillary Clinton
9/11/2011 Your Excellency Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, U.S. State Department, Washington D.C. Dear Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton: We would like to inform you ... Read More
State Department on Armenian church collapsed in Georgia
14/9/2011 Georgian government respected religious freedom in law and in practice, says U.S. State Department’s report on religious freedom. The report contains information about the ... Read More
Syrian Christians Fear Regime Change Could Hasten Extinction
13/5/2011 May 13 (Bloomberg) -- As the Arab Spring protests reach Damascus, Syrian Christians look warily at a future without a time-tested autocrat to protect ... Read More
Moscow rejects U.S. allegations about Religious Inequality
Moscow, November 22, Interfax - Russia's Foreign Ministry rejected allegations by the U.S. State Department that there exists inequality between religious communities representing different faiths ... Read More
His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr met with newly-appointed heads of State Department for Execution of Sentences
Ukrainian Orthodox Church On May 26, at the residence of the UOC Primate His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr met with the newly appointed administration of the ... Read More