From The Hill. By Mark Holden – 01/03/17 02:26 PM EST Criminal justice reform has been one of the few policy areas where Republicans and Democrats have forged bipartisan consensus. They have come close to passing reform the past two years, and now it’s up to GOP lawmakers to pick up where they left off. […]
The bipartisan bill, designed to strengthen the U.S. response to religious persecution, could assist the new administration in refocusing America’s foreign-policy priorities. From National Catholic Register | Dec. 21, 2016. By Joan Frawley Desmond. WASHINGTON — Advocates for international religious freedom cheered as President Barack Obama signed on Dec. 16 the Frank R. Wolf [...]
From naked capitalism. Posted on December 20, 2016 by Jerri-Lynn Scofield. Embedded in the 3,000-page National Defense Authorization Act, passed by both houses of Congress by veto-proof majorities earlier this month and sent to the President on December 14, the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act provides new authority for the executive branch to impose visa […]
From Orthodox Christian News in Orthodox News. Dec 14, 2016 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) is elated to announce that the Frank Wolf International Religious Freedom Act of 2016 (H.R. 1150) has now passed both Houses of Congress by unanimous consent. This legislation updates the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) [...]
From Reuters. | Thu Dec 8, 2016 | 1:35pm EST. By Patricia Zengerle | WASHINGTON Legislation expanding the 2012 U.S. Magnitsky human rights act from Russian citizens to cover abusers in any country passed the U.S. Senate on Thursday as part of an annual defense policy bill, leaving the landmark measure on the verge of […]
The time to pass the International Religious Freedom Act is now From The Hill. By Lanny J. Davis, columnist – 12/05/16 02:09 PM EST Congress has an opportunity to enact important legislation — an updated version of the International Religious Freedom Act. This is not only necessary to permit broader protection for religious freedoms around […]
From the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. By Matthew Hawkins. November 17, 2016. While the so-called Islamic State has dominated the press with particularly gruesome and genocidal acts against Christians, Yazidis and Shia Muslims, people of all faiths (and of no faith) are suffering somewhere, in some capacity, around the […]
Why religious liberty ambassador and Obama appointee David Saperstein is earning praise from both Republicans and Democrats From WORLD Magazine. By J.C. Derrick. October 1, 2016. WASHINGTON—In July 2014, President Barack Obama announced his nominee to fill a vacant State Department post—one that had sat empty for eight months yet had enormous implications for religious […]
