In a recent study conducted by the Nonprofit Research Collaborative, 30 percent of nonprofit organizations reported a drop in donations during the first half of 2011 and 25 percent said their donations became stagnant. Groups with budgets of $3 million or less were more likely to report stagnant or declining...

Sometimes it takes the world a little while to catch on.

Like John the Baptist, many of us working on the issue of refugees in southern Algeria felt like lone voices in the wilderness when calling attention to the dangers and threats facing the people imprisoned in "refugee" camps...

There's an obvious axiom to the old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," which says, "If it's broke and can't be fixed, get rid of it." This axiom is all the more valid if keeping "it" around is costing you money.

There's a debate going...

On Oct. 1, a Pakistan anti-terrorism court sentenced to death Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the bodyguard who shot and killed Salman Taseer, Governor of Punjab, early this year.

Qadri was handed two death sentences on two counts of murder and terrorism by Judge Parvez Ali Shah during in-camera proceedings...

This has been the summer of discontent for religious liberty in Europe.

From Brussels to Budapest, Moscow to Vienna, Europe has been the source of considerable legislative undermining of the fundamental right of freedom of religion and belief.

Just when we thought things couldn't get worse after the passage...

In the autumn of 2007, the New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post and Glamour Magazine ran articles detailing sexual genocide in the Republic of Congo following a report released by the United Nations. Each account lamented the intensity and frequency of sexual violence in Congo, which the U.N. had...

Wednesday night, I lost a friend.

Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the papal nuncio to the United States, died last night of complications from lung surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Sambi had been listed in grave condition following a radical procedure earlier this month that required removing half of one of his...

While Communism officially ended in Hungary more than 20 years ago, it appears the dictatorial mindset has not yet fully abated.
 
On July 12, the Hungarian parliament procured for the country the title of Worst Religion Law in Europe when it rushed after midnight to adopt its...

Proposed legislation in Belgium contains provisions specifically designed to discriminate against targeted religions derogatorily designated as "sectarian movements". This draft law is designed to "fight" against religious minorities through the creation of a new penal offense based not on the criminal activities of such groups, but on the character of...

This article was excerpted from testimony presented before the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights.

The issue of religious liberty is not a new one. The very first act of violence recorded in Judeo-Christian history is one of religious persecution:...

On May 23, 2011, the Israeli Special Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs Task Force on minority religious groups presented its report to the Minister of Welfare and Social Affairs, Moshe Kahlon. The Report derogatorily grouped together as so-called "cults" or "sects" approximately 80 belief systems and contains a blueprint...

The Arab Spring, invigorating, hopeful, promising new expressions of liberty, is giving way to the Arab Summer, and the world watches to see what this season will bring. Into the cloud of earnest hopes, ominous speculation, continuing conflict, and pervasive uncertainty surrounding the Middle East and North Africa, President Obama...

On Friday (April 8), the United States Department of State released its annual international human rights report.

In her remarks releasing the report, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stated:

Here at the State Department, human rights is a priority 365 days a year. It is...

While the Arab world undergoes an historic transformation from oppression to liberty, this month the era of Soviet domination was finally and completely put to rest in Central Europe. The Government of the Republic of Hungary released its first national constitution ever, replacing the illegitimate and tyrannical constitution...

On March 13, three Ahmadiiyya Muslims were brutally attacked in the Banten province of Java, Indonesia. Video footage taken during the ambush demonstrates the victims being beaten to death by sticks.

On February 6, over 1,000 anti-Ahmadiyya extremists attacked the home of cleric Ismail Suparman in Cikeusik Village. The...

On March 2, gunmen unleashed 50 rounds of bullets into Shahbaz Bhatti, the Pakistani Minister of Minority Affairs. A Roman Catholic and the only Christian in the Pakistani Cabinet, Bhatti was assassinated by the Taliban and al Qaeda because of his opposition to Pakistan's arbitrary and egregious blasphemy law. The...