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Religious Freedom in the World is the standard reference on international religious freedom.
| List of Countries | vi | |
| Preface | vii | |
| Acknowledgments | ix | |
| Religious Freedom and American Foreign Policy | 1 | |
| The Importance of Religious Freedom | 9 | |
| The Nature of Religious Freedom and Religious Persecution | 14 | |
| The Current State of Religious Freedom | 18 | |
| Western Europe: Trends in Religious Liberty | 28 | |
| The Former Soviet Union: Trends in Religious Liberty | 35 | |
| Religious Freedom in Latin America | 43 | |
| Country Profiles | 54 | |
| Appendix 1 | Numbers and Statistics | 331 |
| Appendix 2 | Criteria for Profiles of Religious Freedom | 334 |
Its Center for Religious Freedom, a self-sustaining project within Freedom House, is at the forefront of a national campaign to promote religious freedom worldwide. Since its inception in 1986, the Center has reported on the religious persecution of individuals and groups abroad and undertaken advocacy on their behalf in the media, Congress, the State Department, and the White House. It also sponsors investigative field missions and presses official Washington for overall religious freedom in China, Sudan, Vietnam, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and elsewhere. The Center is a membership organization that publishes a bimonthly newsletter, periodic reports, and press releases on religious persecution.
Freedom House Board of Trustees
Bette Bao Lord, chairman; Ned W. Bandler, vice chairman; Mark Palmer, vice chairman; Walter J. Schloss, treasurer; Kenneth L. Adelman, secretary; Max M. Kampelman, chairman emeritus; Morton Abramowitz, J. Brian Atwood, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Peter Collier, Paula Dobriansky, Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., William C. Doherty Jr., Alan P. Dye, Sandra Feldman, Malcolm S. Forbes Jr., Theodore J. Forstmann, Richard Gardner, Norman Hill, Samuel P. Huntington, John T. Joyce, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Anthony Lake, Mara Liasson, Jay Mazur, John Norton Moore, Peggy Noonan, P. J. O’Rourke, Orlando Patterson, Susan Kaufman Purcell, Otto J. Reich, Peter Rodman, Donald Rumsfeld, Wendell Willkie II, Jacques D. Wimpfheimer, Paul Wolfowitz, Andrew Young, and Richard Sauber, Of Counsel
Freedom House Staff
Adrian Karatnycky, president, and James S. Denton, executive director
Center for Religious Freedom Staff
Nina Shea, director; Dr. Paul Marshall, senior fellow; Joseph Assad, Middle East research director; and Laura Barrett, assistant to the director
Board of Reference for Survey*
Vo Van Ai, director, International Buddhist Information Bureau; vice president, International Federation of Human Rights Leagues. Rev. Dr. Michael Bourdeaux, founder and former director, Keston Institute, Oxford, U.K. Professor Marshall Breger, Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America. Professor Cole Durham, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University. Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor, Divinity School, University of Chicago. Professor Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of Politics, Princeton University. Rabbi Irving Greenberg, president, Jewish Life Network. Lodi Gyari, Special Envoy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Dr. Richard Land, President, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Sovaida Ma’ani, Representative of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States; Attorney-Adviser International, Office of the Legal Advisers, U.S. Department of State. Dick Wilson, Global Coordinator, American Center for International Labor Solidarity. Professor Atilla Yayla, President, Association for Liberal Thinkers, Turkey.
Contents
List of Countriesvi
Prefacevii
Acknowledgmentsix
Religious Freedom and American Foreign Policy / Nina Shea1
The Importance of Religious Freedom / Paul Marshall9
The Nature of Religious Freedom and
Religious Persecution / Paul Marshall14
The Current State of Religious Freedom / Paul Marshall18
Western Europe: Trends in Religious Liberty / Willy Fautre28
The Former Soviet Union: Trends in
Religious Liberty / Michael Bourdeaux35
Religious Freedom in Latin America / Paul Sigmund43
Country Profiles54
Appendix 1: Numbers and Statistics331
Appendix 2: Criteria for Profiles of Religious Freedom334
List of Countries
Argentina55
Armenia57
Austria60
Azerbaijan64
Bangladesh68
Belarus71
Belgium75
Bhutan78
Botswana81
Brazil83
Bulgaria87
Burma (Myanmar)91
Chile95
China99
China-Tibet106
Colombia110
Cuba113
East Timor117
Egypt121
El Salvador126
Estonia128
Finland131
France133
Georgia137
Germany140
Greece143
Guatemala147
Hungary151
India155
Indonesia161
Iran167
Ireland172
Israel176
Japan181
Kazakhstan184
Korea, North187
Korea, South190
Kyrgyz Republic193
Latvia196
Lebanon199
Lithuania203
Macedonia206
Malaysia209
Mauritania213
Mexico216
Moldova220
Mongolia223
Morocco225
Namibia229
Nepal231
Netherlands234
Nigeria238
Norway242
Pakistan244
Philippines249
Poland252
Romania257
Russia260
Saudi Arabia265
Singapore268
South Africa272
Spain275
Sri Lanka278
Sudan282
Sweden289
Taiwan292
Tanzania295
Turkey297
Turkmenistan302
Ukraine306
United Kingdom310
United States of America314
Uzbekistan319
Vietnam322
Zimbabwe328
Preface
Overview
Religious Freedom in the World is the standard reference on international religious freedom.