We call for the unconditional and immediate release of Bishop Alvarez, and he has been unjustly sentenced to more than 26 years.

Promoting religious freedom remains the pillar of the U.S. foreign policy.

I was shocked that the State Department failed to designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern in 2022.

USCIRF has recommended designating India as a CPC in its past four annual reports.

The current administration's relentless encroachment on our First Amendment rights is deeply concerning to me.

We are not going to enable a dictatorship that is committing every kind of human rights abuse imaginable, forced organ harvesting, which is an atrocity that is reminiscent of the Nazis.

It is especially unnerving considering that the President of the Department, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, orchestrated the intelligence community letter that was used to undermine the Hunter Biden laptop story.

The rising tide of anti-Semitism worldwide is cause for serious alarm with no sign of abating.

Religious believers of every persuasion are harassed, arrested, jailed, or tortured.

The U.S. should tirelessly advance and defend internationally recognized human rights around the world.

The Chinese Communist Party has undertaken the most comprehensive attempt to manipulate and control or destroy religious communities since Chairman Mao Zedong made the eradication of religion a goal of his disastrous cultural revolution…

Are we doing enough? We have passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Act, which needs some amending.

Just to answer your question quickly, perhaps if we didn't let people in and out of prison, lower felonies to misdemeanors, and generally not obey the rule of the law, we would have a lot less gun violence.

Today we will examine religious freedom around the world or the lack thereof, and we will focus on several countries where religious freedom is under serious assault.

I am especially grateful you put India on the list of countries that ought to be CPC.

Many Africans I met with are deeply disturbed by what they understood to be threats to humanitarian assistance.

We should take full advantage of it in order to promote freedom of religion, human rights here at home and abroad.

Religious liberty, as we all know, is one of America's founding ideals, a cornerstone of our democracy.