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Peter van Dalen, co-president of the EU working group, discussed the group’s first annual report on freedom of religion in the world during a meeting with members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on Wednesday (Feb. 12) in Brussels. RNS photo by Brian Pellot

(RNS1-feb13) Peter van Dalen, co-president of the EU working group, discussed the group’s first annual report on freedom of religion in the world during a meeting with members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on Wednesday (Feb. 12) in Brussels. For use with RNS-RELIGIOUS-FREEDOM, transmitted on February 13, 2014, RNS photo by Brian Pellot

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At the National Religious Freedom Conference in Washington Thursday (May 30), advocates included, from left, Amardeep Singh, director of programs for the Sikh Coalition; the Rev. Eugene Rivers, pastor of Boston's Azusa Christian Community and senior policy advisor to the presiding bishop to the Church of God in Christ, and Shaykha Reima Yosif, founding president of Al-Rawiya, an organization that advocates for Muslims women. RNS photo by Lauren Markoe