Report: Religious freedom deteriorating around the world

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."

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."…