India should be included to the list of "countries of particular concern," according to USCIRF.

May 2 :
The State Department should designate Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Nigeria, and Vietnam as Countries of Particular Concern (CPCs) due to their involvement in or tolerance of "particularly severe" religious freedom violations, according to the US government's global religious freedom watchdog.

Even though IRFA has been in effect for 25 years, many people and communities still face obstacles to freely exercising their faith. The worsening situation in numerous nations, as mentioned in the Annual Report, discourages USCIRF. In a press statement released on May 1, Abraham Cooper, chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), emphasised the critical importance of the President, Secretary of State, and Congress putting the recommendations in this year's report into action.

Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan are among the twelve nations that were already classified as CPCs in December 2023. As far as the USCIRF was concerned, "despite the violations in both countries meeting the legal standard," neither Nigeria nor India were recognised as CPCs.

Seven non-state actors have been proposed for redesignation as Entities of Particular Concern (EPCs) for grave religious freedom violations in the 2024 annual report of the USCIRF by the State Department. These seven groups were designated as EPCs by the State Department in December 2023: al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Houthis, Islamic State Sahel Province (IS Sahel), Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) (also called ISIS-West Africa), and Jamaat Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM). The religious freedom watchdog has not only described and evaluated the US foreign policy on religious freedom generally, but has also made recommendations.