Religious persecution makes migrants out of millions

c. 2014 Religion News Service

(RNS) And then there were nine. Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Monday (July 28) that Turkmenistan has joined the State Department’s list of worst religious freedom offenders.

The State Department’s “Countries of Particular Concern” list had remained static since 2006, when eight countries—Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Uzbekistan—were designated as CPCs.