Intolerant

"Severe abusers of religious freedom" are the focus of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). 

According to a 1998 law, the U.S. government must designate Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) where there is severe religious intolerance. The USCIRF investigates and recommends countries for this egregious list. For example, North Korea is one of those countries (to no one's surprise).

Two more countries should be added to the list according to the Commission's report this year. Pakistan imprisons or executes "blasphemers" in large numbers. Nigeria suffers from the presence of the "most deadly organization in the world," Boko Haram.

Forty-four child suicide bombers were used in 2015 by this Islamist terror group, compared to just four in 2014.

USCIRF Chairman Robert P. George says, "“Things are not going in the right direction . . we need the public to get behind this and we need to make religious freedom a top priority.”