Rep. Chris Smith’s (R-NJ) legislation to provide humanitarian relief to genocide victims in Iraq and Syria, and hold ISIS perpetrators accountable—HR 390, the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018—passed the House on Tuesday night and now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law, after over two years in

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Religious freedom at stake around the world WASHINGTON, DC – Last Thursday Senator James Lankford (R-OK) issued a statement on the State Department’s release of their designation of  ‘Countries of Particular Concern’ (CPC). The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 requires the annual designation of ‘countries of particular concern,’ which are nations that have ‘engaged

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