The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for British Sikhs has written to the UK home and communities secretaries asking for urgent action to address anti-Sikh hate crimes, which are largely underreported in the country.
“They are choosing a future in which Arabs and Israelis, Muslims, Jews, and Christians can live together, pray together, and dream together, side by side, in harmony, community, and peace,” President Trump said in a statement released by the White House Friday.
India has crumbled quickly with the Bahartiya Janata Party (BJP)’s coming into power under Narendra Modi’s administration. Albeit to significant exclusion against Muslims, savagery against the Christians has expanded too.
He also pointed to the detention of ethnic and religious minorities in China for what he called “mundane online activities” such as communicating with relatives abroad.
To mark International Religious Freedom Day, ShareAmerica spoke with the U.S. State Department’s Sam Brownback, ambassador at large for international religious freedom. Here are his answers, slightly edited for length, to our questions.
Last July the EU announced the appointment but the position is still vacant. “Promoting freedom of religion is essential to address global challenges”, 49 MEPs say in a letter to the EU.
An influential Pakistani lawmaker has admitted that forcible conversion of religious minorities continues unabated in the country despite several laws and huge public outcry.
