Katrina Lantos Swett, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, testifies March 15, 2013 on Capitol Hill and holds up a photo of Baha’i leaders who have been sentenced in Iran to 20 years in prison. To her left is Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, who urged the release of Iranian-American minister Saeed Abedini from a Tehran prison. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks

Critics: State Department is ‘AWOL’ on Iran’s religious freedom

WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious freedom activists scolded the State Department for not appearing at a hearing Friday on Iran’s treatment of religious minorities and called for greater government involvement in securing the release of people imprisoned there for their faith.

The `nones’ now form the world’s third-largest ‘religion’ *

(RNS) A new report on global religious identity shows that while Christians and Muslims make up the two largest groups, those with no religious affiliation — including atheists and agnostics — are now the third-largest “religious” group in the world. The study, released Tuesday (Dec. 18) by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, [...]

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Critics: State Department is ‘AWOL’ on Iran’s religious freedom

The `nones’ now form the world’s third-largest ‘religion’ *

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