Home » News Room » Press Releases » Press Releases

Press Releases

9/16/01: USCIRF Urges Bush to Raise Religious Freedom with Indonesian Pres. Megawati Sukarnoputri
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 17, 2001 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has written to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice asking her to urge President Bush "to... Read More
9/11/01: Congress Should Demand Religious-Freedom Improvements As It Considers Vietnam Trade
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2001 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27 The Senate will soon consider the Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) with Vietnam, approved by the House of Representatives last week. The agreement will extend... Read More
9/5/01: USCIRF Urges President to Support Capital-Market Provisions in the Sudan Peace Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 6, 2001 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27 For 18 years, Sudan has been plagued by a civil war that has killed more than 2 million people and displaced more than 4 million. Religion is a major factor in... Read More
8/15/01: USCIRF Asks State Dept to Designate 9 Countries As Worst Religious-Freedom Violators
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 16, 2001 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has nominated Burma, China, Iran, Iraq, Laos, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Saudi Arabia,... Read More
7/22/01: Commission Asks Powell to Raise Religious-Freedom Issues on Asia Trip
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 23, 2001 Contact: Eileen A. Sullivan, Deputy Director of Communications, (202) 523-3240, ext. 26 The U.S. Commission has written to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell asking him to "raise prominently the protection of religious freedom in China... Read More
7/12/01: Commission "Deeply Disappointed" by Awarding of Olympic Games to Beijing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 13, 2001 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27 The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom today issued the following statement: "The Commission is deeply disappointed by today's... Read More
6/26/01: Sadat, Gaer Appointed to Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2001 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27 Leila Nadya Sadat of St. Louis, Mo., and Felice Gaer of Paramus, N.J., have been appointed by House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt to the U.S. Commission on... Read More
6/10/01: Kazemzadeh, Stith, Named to Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2001 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27 Firuz Kazemzadeh, Ph.D., of Alta Loma, California, and the Rev. Charles R. Stith of Boston, Massachusetts, have been appointed by Senate Majority Leader Thomas... Read More
5/31/01: Commission To Testify on its 2001 Annual Report Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2001 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27 WHAT: The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on its 2001 Annual Report. Commissioners Nina... Read More
5/22/01: Michael Young Reappointed to Commission
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 23, 2001 Contact: Lawrence J. Goodrich, Communications Director, (202) 523-3240, ext. 27 Michael K. Young, Dean of the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., has been reappointed to the Commission on International Religious Freedom... Read More

Pages