May 25, 2022, Washington, D.C. – Ahead of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee mark-up of the bipartisan United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2022 (S. 3895), the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) issued the following statement:

May 2, 2022, Washington, D.C. - The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is pleased to announce the nationwide expansion of the Center for Religious Freedom Education (CRFE), which RFI will mark with a major event on May 5th at 6pm EDT. It will be held at the University Club in Washington, D.C.

April 29, 2021, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the Ukraine Religious Freedom Support Act (H.R. 496).

April 14, 2022, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali as Senior Fellow for International Religious Freedom Policy.

April 8, 2022, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is pleased to announce Charles Ramsey as a new Senior Fellow for RFI’s South and Southeast Asia Action Team and Middle East Action Team.

April 8, 2022, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is pleased to announce Lena Abboud as the new Senior Manager for Research and Policy with RFI’s Middle East Action Team.

February 10, 2022, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is pleased to announce Kathryn Jean Lopez as its Senior Media Fellow. She will primarily work with RFI’s North America Action Team.

January 27, 2022, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) welcomes Jennie Bradley Lichter as its first Senior Legal Fellow. She will work principally with RFI’s North America Action Team.

January 14, 2022, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is pleased to host a launch event for the National Committee for Religious Freedom (NCRF), chaired by Ambassador Sam Brownback. The event will be livestreamed on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 12pm EST on RFI’s website, YouTube channel, and Facebook page.

September 3, 2021, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is pleased to welcome Katie Davern as its Deputy Communications Director.

August 2, 2021, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) applauds President Joe Biden’s nomination of Rashad Hussain as Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, and calls upon the Senate to confirm his appointment as soon as possible.

July 22, 2021, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) welcomes the successful prosecution of the assailant who opened fire at a California synagogue in April 2019. Yesterday, John T. Earnest pleaded guilty in San Diego Superior Court to all state charges, including murder and attempted murder, and arson for setting fire to a mosque in a nearby city a month prior to the shooting. The judge is expected to sentence him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

June 17, 2021, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is delighted to announce Carl A. Anderson as this year’s recipient of RFI’s Defender of Religious Freedom Award. Mr. Anderson served for 20 years as Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal organization. He has led critically important initiatives to aid persecuted Christians all over the world.

June 4, 2021, Washington, D.C. - The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is delighted to announce the appointment of Nathaniel Hurd as Director of its North America Action Team and Senior Fellow for Public Policy.

March 28, 2021, Washington, D.C. - The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is delighted to announce the addition of Sara Hibbs as its Events & Office Manager. Ms. Hibbs served as an RFI intern in 2019 and worked closely with the South and Southeast Asia Action Team and the Center for Religious Freedom Education.

This letter from Tom F. Farr, President of the Religious Freedom Institute, was delivered to Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, expressing concerns that the actions of Great Horn, MS are placing religious freedom at risk, particularly with regard to the Muslim community.

February 8, 2020, Washington, D.C. - The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) welcomes Rehman Chishti as Senior Fellow for International Religious Freedom Policy.

December 18, 2020, Washington, D.C. - The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) welcomes Miles Windsor as Senior Manager for Strategy and Campaigns with the Middle East Action Team.

December 11, 2020, Washington, D.C. - The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) welcomes Andrew D. Graham as a Senior Fellow for its Center for Religious Freedom Education.

December 4, 2020, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is delighted to announce Paul Marshall as the new Director of its South and Southeast (SSEA) Action Team. Dr. Marshall previously served as an RFI Senior Fellow and continues to make indispensable contributions as a scholar with RFI’s Freedom of Religious Institutions in Society Project.

The below open letter from Rev. Dcn. Andrew Bennett, Director of the Religious Freedom Institute’s North America Action Team was delivered to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo with concerns that his actions as governor are placing religious freedom at risk in New York and particularly with regard to the Jewish community.

September 23, 2020, Washington D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is pleased to announce Russell D. Moore as the recipient of its 2020 Defender of Religious Freedom Award. “Dr. Moore is a brilliant, winsome, and tireless advocate for religious liberty. Whether making his case from the pulpit, or in the pages of The New York Times, Dr. Moore finds a way to speak so others can listen,” said Thomas Farr, President of RFI.

July 2, 2020, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) applauds the U.S. Supreme Court’s momentous decision on Tuesday in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue.

The five-member majority—Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, and Brett Kavanaugh—held…

June 26, 2020, Washington, DC - The Religious Freedom Institute is pleased to welcome Dr. J. Scott Redd, Jr. as a Senior Fellow for RFI's North America Action Team.

Dr. Redd is President of the Reformed Theological Seminary, RTS, where he also holds the position of Associate Professor of Old Testament. A noted biblical scholar as well as an ordained minister in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church…



June 25, 2020, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) today announces the release of America’s First Freedom Curriculum (AFFC). A thematic unit that supplements junior and senior-level high school instruction, AFFC may be used to bolster existing courses, such as American Government, social studies, political science, and human geography. AFFC has been piloted across four academic semesters in faith-based and classical schools and is applicable in private, public, and home school settings. The curriculum consists of five lessons, each building upon the previous one, but the lessons may also be taught independently.

June 19, 2020, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) today expressed dismay at the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding on Monday in Bostok v. Clayton County, Georgia, which redefined the term “sex” in federal civil rights law to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

June 19, 2020, Washington, D.C. – The Religious Freedom Institute (RFI) is pleased to welcome Dr. Daniel Mark as a Senior Fellow with RFI's North America Action Team.

Dr. Mark is a former commissioner and chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and is currently an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University.