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A report from the U.S. State Department has the rise of religious intolerance worldwide. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reporters a summary of the "International Religious Freedom" report. He said: "[It] light on the challenges people as they nothing more than basic religious freedom and the right to as they wish." Kerry said a particularly worrying trend was the increased discrimination against Jews and Muslims around the world. The report highlighted a in anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe and Asia, and an in anti-Semitism in other parts of the world. Kerry that: "When countries undermine or attack religious freedom, they their country's own stability."

The report with a quote from President Barack Obama, who said religious freedom was, "an essential part of human dignity, and without it our world cannot lasting peace". The report how nations were repressing religious freedom. It said: "Numerous governments …undue and inappropriate restrictions on religious groups and their members, in some cases as part of formal government law and practice." The report also that denying freedom of worship the danger of political and societal instability. It said such a policy: " society’s ability to counter and the biased and warped interpretations of religion that violent extremists ."