Following the lead of the United States, Canada and other countries, Italy too plans to set up an Observatory on Religious Freedom to monitor and combat violations of religious freedom around the world, beginning with the areas at risk where religious minorities are being persecuted. The initiative will be presented on 28 June in Rome at the Foreign Press Association with a speech by Archbishop of Baltimore William Lori on the fundamentals of religious freedom and the threats that today exist even in the West.
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