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Congress Must Push For Global Religious Freedom

by Pa. GOP Rep. Philip English - 06/14/06 9:06 AM ET

Now, while we can, Congress must intrusively and decisively take a stand on behalf of Chinese Catholics and all others who wish to worship God in a manner and through a confession of their own choosing. We must insist that all members of the community of nations respect individual religious freedoms as the condition for mutual respect. Any nation that interferes with individual religious freedoms and the freedom of spiritual communities to order their own affairs, to the degree that the Chinese government has intervened in Catholicism, can aspire to no place of leadership in the modern world.

The release and floor statement can be found at our website at: www.house.gov/english

And there is a video clip of his speech on our website as well: http://www.house.gov/english/multimedia.shtml