Becket Fund leader named to religious freedom panel

WASHINGTON – The executive director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit legal advocacy group that has defended key civil rights cases, has been appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Speaker Paul Ryan of the U.S. House of Representatives named Kristina Arriaga de Bucholz, a Cuban-American, to join eight other nongovernmental commissioners on the panel. The members review religious-freedom violations abroad and make policy recommendations to the Pr

WASHINGTON – The executive director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit legal advocacy group that has defended key civil rights cases, has been appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Speaker Paul Ryan of the U.S. House of Representatives named Kristina Arriaga de Bucholz, a Cuban-American, to join eight other nongovernmental commissioners on the panel. The members review religious-freedom violations abroad and make policy recommendations to the Pr…