Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In many countries around the world, there are severe limitations on religious freedom. An organization called Open Doors, which is affiliated with us, produces an annual world watch list, as does the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. The Open Doors list

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Unfortunately, there is in some of them. In others there is not. However, it depends on when the ideological or governmental shift in leadership took place. What is clear is that today, the largest group of persecuted religious individuals on the planet are Christians. The estima

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There are conversations that take place with international governments through delegations from the World Evangelical Alliance, from representatives within the Religious Liberty Partnership. Those conversations are of an ongoing nature. There are also, I suspect, conversations th

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Two churches in Cairo were rebuilt. It's the St. George church that has not yet been rebuilt.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's correct.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The churches that were rebuilt by the military were rebuilt prior to October 9. What's been called the massacre at Maspero took place on October 9. There the military killed 27 Christians, with over 300 injured, in a peaceful assembly that was broken up using the full force of th

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My report has been inadvertently taken to the clerk. I assume that is what the chair has referred to in receiving the report in English. The recommendations are actually contained in that document. It would help me a lot if I had it back.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm sorry; my apologies. I believed the document that was removed—I was only sending around the pictures--

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Oh, okay. Then I flipped it over down here on the bottom. I'm entirely responsible.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I've just accepted blame, Mr. Chair.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The call, the mention on the ground, was a general human rights call rather than specifically identifying Christians. The deliberations of this committee I hope will inform the operations of the office of religious freedom when it's established. The collected wisdom of this room

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There are two churches that were destroyed in Cairo that have been rebuilt by the army. However, the Church of St. George in Merinab in Aswan province, which was destroyed by a mob of just over 1,000 people following completion of government-approved renovations, has not been reb

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That was destroyed in September.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Very shortly after, a representative from the military government attended in the province and was standing beside a Sufi when he made the announcement. Then the military left. Nothing has taken place since then.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That was in the Cave Church in Garbage City in Cairo. It's a suburb of Cairo. The Cave Church is literally a cave hollowed out of the rock and from the main platform, or the elevated portion of the church building, there's no back wall and it just proceeds up a hill. That was a r