WASHINGTON (RNS) — Religious freedom remains under "serious and sustained assault" around the globe, according to a new annual report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
"At best, in most of the countries we cover, religious freedom conditions have failed to improve," commission chairman Robert P. George said Monday (May 2). "At worst, they have spiraled further downward."
BOSTON – Churches around Boston will commemorate the National Day of Prayer May 5, which takes place annually on the first Thursday in May.
Former president Ronald Reagan signed the law establishing the first Thursday in May as the National Day of Prayer in 1988. A decade later, President Bill Clinton signed a law requiring each president to issue a proclamation for the day annually.
