USA – Independent commission on freedom of religion highlights plight of Christians around the world

May 5, 2017 by Jill

from Barnabas Aid:

United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent government commission created in 1998 to monitor freedom of religion worldwide, has released its 2017 report on the previous year.

The report highlighted 16 countries of particular concern, including, for the first time, Russia, where amendments to anti-terror laws have been used to prohibit evangelism and prosecute and deport church leaders. The Commission also found, as Barnabas Aid has previously reported, that the Iranian government initiated a crack-down on believers in 2016. Religious freedom in India “continued to deteriorate” in 2016, in a “pervasive climate of impunity in which religious minorities feel increasingly insecure”, with attacks on “Christian communities across many denominations”.

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