Click here to view Select Inter-Parliamentary Religious Freedom Initiatives (PDF) For the past 10 years, I have been humbled to work on issues of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in the House of Commons and around the globe. Often called the ... Full Article

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OTTAWA, ON – Yesterday in the House of Commons, David Anderson, Member of Parliament for Cypress Hills—Grasslands, began debate on his Private Member’s Bill, C-418: the Protection of Freedom of Conscience Act. “I ... Full Article

The debate around individual rights in Canada is complicated and emotionally-charged. I can think of no better example than the discussion in recent months around the sanctity of conscience rights, particularly those of medical professionals. ... Full Article

My office has prepared an update on the state of freedom of religion or belief in Bahrain. Please watch the video report below. Thank you for your engagement with issues of religious freedom. David Anderson, MP Full Article

The following is the full text of a March 21, 2019 press conference held by the Uyghur Canadian Society on the persecution of Uyghurs in the People’s Republic of China. March 21, 2019 “I am Mehmet Tohti, representing the Uyghur ... Full Article

By Geoffrey P. Johnston | Kingston Whig Standard David Anderson is no ordinary member of Parliament. While most parliamentarians tend to focus on local politics, rarely looking beyond the borders of their own ridings, Anderson has spent the ... Full Article

In the sixth in a series of videos exposing the attacks on freedom of religion or belief in China, MP David Anderson addresses use of checkpoints in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: In a previous segment, I spoke about the persecution of ... Full Article

In the fifth in a series of videos exposing the attacks on freedom of religion or belief in China, MP David Anderson addresses persecution in the Tibetan Autonomous Region: In previous videos, I addressed the persecution of the Uyghur Muslims in ... Full Article

In the fourth in a series of videos exposing the attacks on freedom of religion or belief in China, MP David Anderson addresses the separation of families in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: In a previous video, I talked about ... Full Article

In the third in a series of videos exposing the attacks on freedom of religion or belief in China, MP David Anderson addresses the continued persecution of Falun Gong: The Falun Gong has been considered an ‘evil cult’ by Chinese authorities ... Full Article

While the Trudeau government has given Canadian Christians little reason to cheer, writes Convivium contributor Don Hutchinson, it deserves praise for its effort to save the persecuted Pakistani woman condemned to death for blasphemy against ... Full Article

On January 30, 2019, David Anderson, MP hosted Open Doors Canada on Parliament Hill for the launch of the 2019 World Watch List – an index ranking the top 50 countries where it’s most dangerous to be a Christian. Over 6 billion people around ... Full Article

In fall 2018, the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development studied the human rights situation facing Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang ... Full Article

The Office of David Anderson is pleased to release an updated version of the May 2018 report on the status of freedom of religion or belief in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.   Click here to read the report Click here to learn more about ... Full Article

In the second in a series of videos exposing the attacks on freedom of religion or belief in China, MP David Anderson addresses the destruction of mosques: 24,400 mosques in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have been destroyed since 2009 ... Full Article

MP David Anderson provides an update on freedom of religion or belief in Cuba: Cuba’s new President, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has indicated that the country’s new constitution, which will be voted on in a referendum in February 2019, will ... Full Article

MP David Anderson provides a December 2018 update on freedom of religion or belief in Russia: Last May, the US Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) reported that “raids on homes and places of worship, ... Full Article

There are simple, tangible, ways in which our government can promote religious freedom on both the national and international stage. By Kelly Block, MP | The Post Millennial “I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my ... Full Article

I’m pleased to present the first in a series of case studies on China’s complete contempt for the fundamental right of freedom of religion or belief. The suffering inflicted by the Chinese government on the Uyghur people has been the subject ... Full Article

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, ON – Today in the House of Commons, David Anderson, MP for Cypress Hills–-Grasslands tabled Bill C-418, the Protection of Freedom of Conscience Act, to protect conscience rights for health care professionals. ... Full Article