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12/19/00: Commission Issues Recommendations on Religious Freedom in North Korea
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 20, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom wrote the President, Secretary of State, and congressional leaders December 18 with recommendations for promoting... Read More
12/18/00: Commission Asks Secretary Albright to Denounce the Targeting of Holy Places
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 19, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom yesterday wrote to Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright urging the United States government to denounce forcefully the... Read More
12/6/00: Commission Congratulates Commissioner McCarrick On Receipt of Human Rights Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 7, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom today congratulated Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, a Commission member, on his receipt of the Eleanor... Read More
12/5/00: Commission To Issue Report Card on Religious Freedom on Eve of Human Rights Day
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 6, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27 WHAT:The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom will hold a press conference to release its report critiquing the implementation of the... Read More
11/20/00: Commission Congratulates Theodore McCarrick on His Appointment as Archbishop of Washington, D.C.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 21, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27 The Vice Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Firuz Kazemzadeh, today congratulated Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, a Commission... Read More
11/1/00: Commission Queries President on Blocking China Sovereign-Bond Sales
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Wednesday asked President Clinton whether he agrees with its analysis that the President has the authority,... Read More
10/31/00: Commission Expresses Concern, Issues Recommendations on Iran
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 1, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom today expressed deep concern over the conditions of religious freedom in Iran and recommended that the United States reaffirm... Read More
10/25/00: USCIRF Asks Clinton to Raise Religious-Freedom Issues in Meeting With Russian President
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom wrote to President Clinton October 26 urging that he raise religious-freedom issues with Russia's President... Read More
10/19/00: Commission Recommends SEC Investigate Sinopec's Disclosure of Interests in Sudan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom today wrote to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to recommend the SEC investigate "the... Read More
10/17/00: Commission Urges Sudanese Minister to Improve Religious Freedom
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 18, 2000 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom wrote to the Minister of External Relations of Sudan, Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismail, on October 17 urging that he... Read More

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