Of Down Syndrome and Violence: Religious Freedom and US Foreign Policy

Author: Thomas Farr

September 12, 2012

RFP Director Tom Farr spoke at a conference on "International Religious Freedom: An Imperative for Peace and the Common Good," held at the Catholic University of America on September 12, 2012. In this speech he argues that the state of international religious freedom is in a deepening crisis, pointing out how much of the world's population lives in countries with severe restrictions on religious freedom and describing the Pakistani case of a disabled Christian girl accused of blasphemy against Islam. Farr notes that despite some successes, U.S. foreign policy has not been particularly effective in advancing religious freedom, and he closes with a hopeful account of the July 31 release of the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom.

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