Topic: U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

Terrorism & Security North Korea explains why it sentenced American Kenneth Bae to hard labor

Mr. Bae was detained and sentenced to 15 years in prison. North Korea today spelled out its charges, which include plotting to overthrow the government.

Clashes between ethnic groups leave at least 30 dead in Nigeria

Opinion Obama must remind Vladimir Putin of human rights, religious freedom concerns

UN's focus on Middle East overlooks other urgent global matters

Opinion Don't penalize asylum-seekers at US ports

Egypt's deadly rumors of interfaith marriage

UN to review Sudan's human rights record

Blasphemy law kills a Pakistan minister

The Monitor's View How to get past the zero-sum debate over planned mosque near Ground Zero

US defense of global religious freedom wanes under Obama, panel says

In India, religious violence leaves long trail of refugee camps

The Monitor's View Islamic countries push a global 'blasphemy' law

Opinion Iran's nuclear crisis: Obama could play the human rights card

Islamic academy revises controversial textbooks

Opinion The Saudis' dubious interfaith agenda at the UN

Ahmadinejad to dinner? Furor ensues over religious groups' event.

Olympic torch rallying China's critics