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5/15/00: Commission to Testify Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 15, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 WHAT: Members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing on the Commission's first... Read More
5/11/00: Abrams, McFarland to Speak in Discussion on Commission's First Annual Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 11, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 WHAT:Commissioner Elliott Abrams of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and Steven T. McFarland, the Commission's Executive Director, will speak at a discussion of the... Read More
5/9/00: McFarland to Testify Before House International Relations Committee on China Trade
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 9, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 WHAT:Steven T. McFarland, Executive Director of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, will testify before the House International Relations Committee during a hearing on... Read More
5/2/00: Commissioner Abrams to Testify Before Ways and Means on China and the WTO
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 2, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 WHAT:The Hon. Elliott Abrams, member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and a former Assistant Secretary of State, will testify before the House Ways and Means... Read More
4/26/00: Commission to Hold Press Conference, Issue First Annual Report
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom May 1 will issue its first annual report, which will contain recommendations to the President, Secretary of State, and Congress... Read More
4/4/00: Commissioners to Testify on Religious Persecution in China
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom May 1 will issue its first annual report, which will contain recommendations to the President, Secretary of State,... Read More
3/31/00: Commission Condemns Vietnam's Interference in Buddhist Commemoration
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 31, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom today condemned the government of Vietnam's actions in preventing Hoa Hao Buddhists from freely assembling to commemorate one of... Read More
3/27/00: Commission Asks Clinton to Address Religious Freedom With Egyptian President Mubarak
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 27, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Friday wrote to President Clinton to raise the issue of ongoing violations of the Coptic Christian community's religious freedom... Read More
3/13/00: Hearing on Religious Persecution in China
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mar. 13, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is holding its second hearing on Thursday, March 16 to examine religious persecution in China. The hearing is scheduled from 9:00 a... Read More
3/7/00: Commission Sets L.A. Hearing on China
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mar. 7, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 What:U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom field hearing on religious freedom in China. The purpose of the hearing is to gather information for the Commission's annual report... Read More

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