Humanitarian crises fueled by waves of terror, intimidation, and violence have engulfed an alarming number of countries in the year since the release of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom's (USCIRF) prior Annual Report last May. The previous quotations highlight five of these nations - Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Burma - and the horrific loss of human life, freedom, and dignity that has accompanied the chaos. A horrified world has watched the results of what some have aptly called violence masquerading as religious devotion. In both Iraq and Syria,...