State Dept. adds Russia to religious freedom 'watch list'
The U.S. State Department has added Russia to its “special watch list” for religious freedom violators and added Pakistan to its list of “countries of particular” concern.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Tuesday decisions made on Nov. 28 to list 10 countries as “countries of particular concern,” a designation required under the International Religious Freedom Act to single out the countries where governments have “engaged in or tolerated systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom.”...