Tag: State Department

Patriarch of Serbia Irinej at the US State Department

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- March 8, 2020

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- March 11, 2019

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 17, 2017

© 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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 18, 2015

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 1, 2015

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

OCP- March 4, 2014

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

OCP- December 28, 2013

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

OCP- May 24, 2013

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

OCP- August 2, 2012

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

OCP- March 21, 2012

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

OCP- November 10, 2011

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

OCP- September 14, 2011

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

OCP- May 13, 2011

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

OCP- November 28, 2010

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

OCP- May 31, 2010

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