Just a Bill: Religious Freedom Consensus Rarely Voted into Law Latest IRF scorecard grades each member of US Congress, as State Department releases annual report on 200 countries and territories. Jayson Casper| Image: Andrew Harnik / Pool / AP Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a news conference to announce the annual International Religious Freedom Report at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called out Saudi Arabia. The Gulf kingdom “remains the only country in the world without a Christian church, though there are more than a million Christians living [there],” he stated yesterday. Such high-level criticism of the key US ally is a departure from the foreign policy of the Trump administration, though the State Department has listed the oil-rich nation as a Country of Particular Concern on international religious freedom (IRF) since 2004.