BEIJING (Reuters) - China has lodged a diplomatic protest with the United States after a U.S. government commission said Chinese violations of religious freedom last year remained "severe", the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan U.S. federal government body, said in a report this week that there were "systematic, egregious and ongoing abuses" in China against Christians, Buddhists, Muslims and others.
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