In this issue, William Murray includes his remarks as keynote speaker at the National Religious Freedom Day celebration at the Fredericksburg, Virginia monument which commemorates adoption of the world's first formal statute guaranteeing religious freedom.  .The same week, Murray escorted a noted Islamic scholar from Australia, Dr. Mark Durie, to meet with Congressmen in Washington, D.C., and to speak at the Hudson Institute.  Durie's topic was the attempt by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a group of 57 Muslim majority nations, to use their voting power in the United Nations to pass international blasphemy laws.

For nearly two decades I have written a weekly news update from Capitol Hill which was emailed to supporters of the Religious Freedom Coalition. Regrettably over the years the number of subscribers declined as news feeds became more popular and the number of readers did not justify the amount of preparation work required. The service has been discontinued.