Iraq, Egypt, China slammed in US religious freedom report
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Religious freedom conditions have worsened in insurgency-wracked Iraq as well as Egypt, while communist China has embarked on a crackdown on foreign missionaries ahead of the Olympics, the US government warned in a report Friday.
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China is at the top of a list of countries blocking  Internet access, and  Russia and Venezuela have shown serious regression  in several  areas, mainly in centralizing power in the executive branch, according to State Department officials who released the department's annual human rights report...
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The libraries of a number of American mosques feature Arabic-language writings published by the Saudi government or top clerics in the desert kingdom that virulently denounce Muslims from different traditions as well as Christians and Jews, and say devout Muslims should think of America as enemy territory, a new study said.
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STATE DEPARTMENT The State Department is including Saudi Arabia for the first time on its list of countries that could be subject to sanctions for violations of religious freedom.
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China defended its record on religious freedom Thursday, saying all Chinese can worship as they choose with no restrictions, and it blasted a U.S. government report that said Beijing persecutes some believers.
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WASHINGTON -- In an unusual censure of a key ally in the war on terrorism, the Bush administration accused Saudi Arabia on Wednesday of &quot;particularly severe violations&quot; of religious freedom.
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Uzbekistan accused the United States of practicing double standards on human rights issues Friday after Washington listed the former Soviet republic as one of the world's worst violators of religious freedom.
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In an unusual censure of a key ally in the war on terrorism, the Bush administration accused Saudi Arabia yesterday of &quot;particularly severe violations&quot; of religious freedom.
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By Kevin Eckstrom, Religion News Service | posted 09/16/2004 9:00 am. The US State Department on Wednesday for the first time included Saudi Arabia on a list of eight &quot;countries of particular concern&quot; for not
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China criticized US President George W. Bush&#39;s war on Iraq yesterday, accusing an &quot;arrogant&quot; United States of trying to &quot;rule the world&quot; and blaming the US-led invasion for sparking an increase in terrorist attacks.
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The United States on Wednesday accused Saudi Arabia of severe violations of religious freedom in a rare official rebuke of a close ally and key oil supplier that potentially could lead to sanctions.
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An Egyptian cleric based in Qatar and often described as a moderate has ruled that it is a religious duty for Muslims to fight Americans in Iraq, including U.S. civilians, his office director said Thursday.
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In an unusual censure of a key ally in the war on terrorism, the Bush administration yesterday accused Saudi Arabia of &quot;particularly severe violations&quot; of religious freedom.
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The United States has protested to China over the removal of seven American members of a Buddhist group from a temple in the Inner Mongolia region, the State Department said.
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China assailed the United States on Monday for listing it as a country that violates religious freedoms. The State Department list released last week included China among Myanmar, North Korea, Eritrea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan as places where people cannot practice their faiths freely.
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WASHINGTON: The United States has called Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Eritrea âcountries of particular concernâ in an annual report on international religious freedom.
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Many of the critiques contained in the Iraq Study GroupÂs report boil down to the differing worldviews of Baker versus Rice.