Fox News Channel reported on Congressman Chris Smith's June 16 congressional hearing about the attacks around the world on international religious freedom, with witnesses from the U.S. State Department and former officials from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Below is the transcript from the segment:

FNC Anchor Melissa Francis: Now onto Capitol Hill where a Congressional panel is holding a hearing on religious freedom, exploring whether protecting religious freedom around the world should be a Foreign Policy Priority. Shannon Bream is live in Washington with the details on this one. Tell us more.

FNC Reporter Shannon Bream: Well Melissa, calling threats to international religious freedom one of the most pressing challenges of our time, today lawmakers will look at oppression around the world and how it’s impacting us right here at home. That includes how we balance taking in religious minorities from regions where they are under constant threat of torture and death, while also making sure bad actors from those regions don’t take advantage of refugee and asylum policies here in the U.S.. Earlier this week, President Obama talked about the need for peaceful people to work together against one of the greatest offenders, ISIS.

President Obama: As President, I have repeatedly called on our Muslim friends and allies at home and around the world to work with us to reject this twisted interpretation of one of the world’s great religions.

Shannon Bream: GOP Congressman Chris Smith, who will chair today’s hearing, has worked for years to combat the harassment and killing of religious minorities around the globe. From China to the Middle East. He says today, quote: “It is no coincidence that the worst violators of religious freedom globally are often those who are the worst threats to the U.S.. Those who wish to do Americans the most harm, and those who most want to tear down the pillars of tolerant and democratic societies.”

Earlier this year after months of pressure, Secretary of State, John Kerry, finally used the word genocide to describe what’s been happening to Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims at the hands of ISIS. In today’s hearing, lawmakers will push to see what the State Department has actually been doing to put an end to it. Melissa.

Melissa Francis: Yeah, we’ll see. Shannon Bream thank you so much for that.

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