US Paints Bleak Portrait of Global Religious Freedom
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FILE - A displaced woman from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, worships at their main holy temple in Lalish in Shikhan, Sept. 20, 2014.
FILE - A displaced woman from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, worships at their main holy temple in Lalish in Shikhan, Sept. 20, 2014.
Nike Ching, Ken Bredemeier
Last updated on: August 10, 2016 1:29 PM
STATE DEPARTMENT—
The United States is painting a bleak portrait of religious freedom around the world, particularly condemning some Islamic societies that have adopted laws that harshly penalize blasphemy and apostasy.
“One quarter of all the countries in the world have some form of anti-blasphemy law, one out of 10 punishes people for apostasy,” State Department’s Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein told VOA Wednesday in an interview, “so this is a serious problem because often this has death penalties that are attached in them or very severe punishments. And we see this in countries all across the globe.”
http://www.voanews.com/content/us-report-paints-bleak-portrait-of-global-religious-freedom/3458597.html
