These designations underscore the United States' commitment to protect those who seek to exercise their freedom of religion or belief, said Mike Pompeo
Shah on Monday introduced the controversial bill in Lok Sabha, where it was passed with 311 members favouring it
Mandated by the Congress, the State Department in its voluminous report gives its assessment of the status of religious freedom in almost all the countries and territories of the world
US State Department's 2018 Report on International Religious Freedom which accused BJP office-bearers for hate speech
The USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan US federal government commission created in 1998, that reviews religious freedom violations abroad
The dissenting statement on India comes from Tenzin Dorjee, a commissioner of the USCIRF
Report adds corruption, police and security force abuses are among human rights problems in India
USCIRF alleged that members of the ruling BJP tacitly supported these groups and used religiously-divisive language to further inflame tensions
A three-member delegation of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) was to report on the conditions of religious freedom in India