Report: usual suspects thwart religious liberty.(News)(State Department's annual report on the status of religious freedom )

The Christian Century | January 13, 2004 | Copyright

The State Department's annual report on the status of religious freedom worldwide is out, and its chief villains have familiar faces. The report says China, Burma and North Korea remain among the world's most egregious and systematic violators of religious liberty.

Meanwhile, several nations with close ties to the United States--such as Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan and Israel--continue to repress their citizens" religious freedom either through overt legal oppression or through unequal enforcement of laws that, on paper, protect religious freedom.

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