Recently, the US State Department has released this annual report.
The report is a survey of the state of religious freedom across the world.
The IRF report listed countries for positive developments in religious freedom and negative examples.
Nicaragua, Nigeria and China were cited as negative examples.
It published a report i.e. the country report for India to highlight the issue of religious freedom in the country.
Earlier, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF report) downgraded India’s religious freedom to the lowest grade — in the ‘Country of Particular Concern (CPC)’ category.
It highlighted the developments that took place in 2019 i.e. the status of Jammu and Kashmir, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).