House Hearings On International Religious Freedom

On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations held hearings on the State Department's 2006 International Religious Freedom Report. Statements by the following witnesses are available online: Committee Vice-Chairman Christopher Smith; Stephen M. Liston, Director of State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom ; Felice Gaer, Chair of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom; Thomas F. Farr, Former Director of State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom; Nina Shea, Director of Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom; Pastor Bui Thien Hue of Houston, Texas; Joseph Kung, President of Cardinal Kung Foundation; and Berhane Sium, Eastern US Coordinator of the Eritrean National Salvation Front.