David Saperstein
Americans accept people of other faiths, but there’s room to grow
By Chris Walsh and William McKenzie — March 6, 2024
(RNS) — We are called as members of a pluralistic society to meet, discuss and even disagree about faith.
Saudi Arabia again leads interfaith understanding — this time on its own soil
By David Rosen — May 24, 2022
(RNS) — A forum in Riyadh for Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist leaders reflects remarkable changes.
Interfaith rally supports Ketanji Brown Jackson in front of Supreme Court
By Adelle M. Banks — March 30, 2022
(RNS) — While Jackson has generally been private about her faith, speakers in her favor prayed for Senate action and tied their support for her to their religions.
Trust, humility, bravery: A forum in Texas shows how interfaith understanding is forged
By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush — March 11, 2022
(RNS) — The Global Faith Forum advertised itself as 'unlikely' and lived up to its billing.
Rashad Hussain confirmed as first Muslim US religious freedom ambassador
By Adelle M. Banks — December 17, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Ambassador Hussain is well placed to advance the US government’s promotion of international religious freedom,’ said the chair of a religious freedom watchdog.
The Senate needs to confirm Biden’s new international religious freedom ambassador now
By Knox Thames — November 18, 2021
(RNS) — The absence of a religious freedom ambassador left no strong advocate for this basic human right during recent debates at State.
Voting rights demonstration leads to faith leaders’ arrests outside White House
By Jack Jenkins — October 19, 2021
(RNS) — Among the detained were the Rev. Jamal Bryant, Rabbi David Saperstein and actress Alyssa Milano.
President Trump failed to challenge India on religious freedom. Will Biden follow suit?
By David Curry — May 10, 2021
(RNS) — Biden the candidate promised to protect religious freedom. But Biden the president seems to have chosen a similar approach to India as his predecessor.
The US needs an ambassador to the Holy See
By Thomas Reese — March 24, 2021
(RNS) — Joe Biden will soon be the first Catholic president to nominate an ambassador to the Holy See, something that in earlier days would have been anathema to American Protestants who feared the papacy’s political and religious power.
Experts mull religious freedom, tolerance in US, abroad
By Adelle M. Banks — February 9, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious freedom experts emphasized the need for education, tolerance and on-the-ground visits to persecuted religious people across the globe.
Religious freedom seriously lacking for three-fourths of world’s population, ambassador says
By Adelle M. Banks — August 10, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) Almost a quarter of the world’s countries -- in which 74 percent of the world’s population lives -- have serious restrictions on religious freedom, said the ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
Anti-Semitism in Europe: ‘The devil that never dies’
By Lauren Markoe — March 1, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) The latest spike in anti-Semitism in Europe is rooted in a global prejudice that persists over time and in places where Jews have never lived.
2015 was ‘worst year’ for Christian persecution, says Open Doors
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 13, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) North Korea marks its 14th year atop the list of most dangerous countries to be Christian.
State Department religious freedom report focuses on terror groups
By Lauren Markoe — October 14, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) Nonstate actors, said Secretary of State John Kerry, are "the principal persecutors and preventers of religious tolerance and practice."
State Department report: Religious persecution makes migrants out of millions
By Brian Pellot — July 28, 2014
(RNS) Millions of religious and non-religious people were displaced last year according to the State Department’s latest religious freedom report, which for the first time cites Turkmenistan for escalating religious freedom violations.
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