USA: USCIRF Chair to be Honored at Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Annual Convention

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"We are proud to stand with the Ahmadiyya Muslim community and proclaim together that these and other freedoms are the birthright of humanity.” [Dr. Lantos Swett]

File photo: Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch |
Source/Credit: USCIRF
By Press Release | June 27, 2013

On June 29, 2013, the Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett, will be honored at the 65th Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) to be held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from June 28 – June 30.

Dr. Lantos Swett will be receiving the 2013 Ahmadiya Muslim Humanitarian Award for her “tireless commitment to religious freedom” and her “exceptional work on behalf of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.”  Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) also will be receiving this prestigious award.  The live stream address for Saturday's afternoon award session is: Live.alislam.org

File Photo: Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA)

“I am honored to receive this award,” said Dr. Lantos Swett. “The rights of people everywhere to think as they please, believe or not believe as they wish, peacefully practice their beliefs, and express them publicly without fear or intimidation are inviolable. We are proud to stand with the Ahmadiyya Muslim community and proclaim together that these and other freedoms are the birthright of humanity.”

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was founded in 1889 and spans more than 200 countries with membership exceeding tens of millions.  Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, established in 1920, is among the first American-Muslim organizations.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to monitor the status of freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief abroad, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related international instruments, and to give independent policy recommendations to the President, Secretary of State, and Congress.

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