Religious freedom report: Russia guilty of ‘severe’ violations against religious minorities

Palace of the Senate of the Russian Empire in Moscow. / Credit: Angel Miklashevsky, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 2, 2025 / 09:29 am (CNA). Russia continues to perpetuate “particularly severe” religious liberty violations against minority groups within its own country and the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, according to a new report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The June 30 report, which detailed religious liberty violations throughout 2024 and the…