http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=30173

WASHINGTON (BP)--Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a long-overdue list of the world's worst violators of religious liberty four days before the end of the Bush administration and failed to add any countries recommended by a federal commission.

Rice formally designated the same eight governments as "countries of particular concern" (CPCs) Jan. 16 but did not publicly release the list, according to a March 27 news release from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The commission learned of Rice's action only during the week of March 23-27, when the State Department, now under Secretary Hillary Clinton, released the list in response to a USCIRF request.