Religious Oppression

A federal commission says there are 11 nations the State Department should identify as oppressing religion but are being ignored. The countries are China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan named with Iran, North Korea Others are Eritrea, Myanmar, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. . The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedoms points to violent government repression of religious communities. A decade ago Congress passed the International Religious Freedom Act. It equires the US to identify "countries whose governments have engaged in or tolerated systematic and egregious violations of the universal right to freedom of religion or belief." The US State Department hasn’t made an designations for two years.