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by bcadmin | Jun 4, 2022 | Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, Religious Freedom, US State Department | 0 |
Bishop Silvio Jose Baez has been exiled in Miami since 2019. Father Edwin Roman, who openly opposed the repression by government forces of a civil protests in 2018, was forced into exile earlier this year.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Biden Administration, Church in Europe, Easter, News, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, US State Department | 0 |
The U.S. secretaries of state and defense met Sunday night with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the highest-level visit to the country’s capital by an American delegation since the start of Russia’s invasion.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 22, 2022 | Associated Press, China, Church in Asia, News, Religious persecution, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, US State Department | 0 |
The Biden administration on Monday expanded existing U.S. travel bans against Chinese officials whom it accuses of repressing ethnic and religious minorities.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 19, 2021 | Africa, Catholic Church, Catholic news, Free Access, News, Nigeria, Open Doors USA, United States, US Commission for International Religious Freedom, US State Department | 0 |
After the U.S. State Department released its list of countries with the most egregious religious freedom violations this week, human rights advocates expressed shock that Nigeria was removed from this year’s list. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a statement on Nov. 17 saying that it was “appalled” at the State Department’s “unexplainable” decision
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 12, 2021 | Anglophone crisis, Cameroon, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, lead, News, US State Department | 0 |
A Catholic bishop in Cameroon says the U.S. State Department’s sanctions on those responsible for undermining the country’s peace process as merely “cosmetic.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Africa, Ethiopia, News, Oriental Orthodox, US State Department | 0 |
The United States ambassador to Ethiopia on Monday hosted the patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church after he warned of “genocide” in the Tigray region in his first public comments on the war.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 27, 2021 | Associated Press, Bolivia, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, News, US State Department | 0 |
The United States said Saturday that it is concerned about increasingly ″anti-democratic behavior and the politicization of the legal system” in Bolivia following the arrests of officials from the country’s former interim government.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 10, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Nuns, US State Department, Woman of Courage, Women religious | 0 |
Comboni Sister Alicia Vacas Moro, a Spanish missionary sister and registered nurse, was one of 14 women to receive this year’s International Women of Courage Award, an annual honor from the U.S. Department of State for women who have demonstrated leadership in their human rights work.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 7, 2021 | AVSI, Brazil, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, migrants and refugees, News, US State Department, Venezuela | 0 |
Two Catholic-backed organizations opened a center in Brazil’s capital to host Venezuelan migrants relocating from the refugee centers in the Amazon region.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 7, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Lebanon, Maronite Church, News, US State Department | 0 |
The U.S. Treasury on Friday slapped sanctions on Lebanon’s former foreign minister and a leading Christian political ally of the militant Hezbollah group, singling him out for what it said was his role in corruption.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 10, 2020 | Associated Press, China, Church in Asia, International religious freedom, News, Persecution, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Uighurs, US State Department | 0 |
China said Friday it will retaliate against U.S. officials and institutions following Washington’s imposition of sanctions on three local officials of the ruling Communist Party over human rights abuses in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 10, 2020 | Associated Press, China, Church in Asia, International religious freedom, News, Persecution, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Uighurs, US State Department | 0 |
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on three senior officials of the Chinese Communist Party, including a member of the ruling Politburo, for alleged human rights abuses targeting ethnic and religious minorities that China has detained in the western part of the country. The decision to
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