Chris Smith

Israel is a country like any country, has its good, has its bad, of course, but I am seeing once you cross this line of just useful criticizing to denying their existence or denying the right to defend itself, this becomes anti-Semitism.

this is a very, very troubling report.

By the way, in any country, if you found a Minister for Human Rights, that means that they have no human rights at all.

impunity, a situation where violence perpetrated against the Coptic Christian communities remains unchecked.

Catholics are broadly convinced these killings were an effort to intimidate the Church to keep it out of politics.

I think that is a really serious situation that so far the international community, including the United States, has failed to properly address for China.

This is a massacre. This is a genocide. This is not just ethnic cleansing.

There is not a single church in the entire state.

I think that clearly there are more than religious dimensions to the conflict, but religion is also a verifiable part of the conflict.

Make no mistake, religious freedom matters.

I and other Members of Congress are strongly urging the administration not to double-hat sanctions against these countries as has been done previously, but to impose measures that have some teeth and that are likely to produce the desired…

If we did not protect the Christians in Iraq, if we did not prevent Iran from increasing their influence in Iraq, our American soldiers, our American children, their blood, will go in vain.

I hope very much that all those concerns that have arisen in recent months will be addressed...

there is little, too little public evidence, he writes, that protection of religious freedom is factored into major bilateral foreign policy decisions.

Because the blood you can't replace it, money you can. Blood you can't.

We persisted and eventually the bill, authored by my good friend and colleague, Frank Wolf of Virginia, was signed into law.

Now is the time for restraint on all sides so that Egyptians can move forward and forge a strong, united Egypt.

I think, unfortunately, with the Eritrean situation, what we have is the context of virtually a failed state.

conditions in Pakistan, as you well know, are horrific.

The situation in Vietnam is getting worse, not better.

But nevertheless the church should be allowed to open, and it is now a rule of law issue because the mayor is in defiance of the Supreme Court ruling.

This report that your commission put out this year, if not the best is certainly among the best.

I don't believe enough is being done to engage the very vital resources both in terms of moral resources, relational resources, and infrastructural resources that are embodied by interfaith groups and interdenominational councils across…

Bishop Ramirez said... that the greatest number of religious persecutions and discriminatory activities is directed at Christians.

The police did not help the wounded. The opposite. They started to take the gold and the money from the pockets of the victims.