Joe Crapa's Funeral, Monday, Oct. 29

Joe Crapa's Funeral, Monday, Oct. 29

Contact:
Judith Ingram, Communications Director,
(202) 523-3240, ext. 127

A funeral service for Joseph R. Crapa, the late Executive Director of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, will be held at 1 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, at St. Peter's Church, 313 2nd Street, S.E., Washington D.C.

The Commission office will close at 11 a.m. Monday to honor Joe's memory.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to monitor the status of freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief abroad, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related international instruments, and to give independent policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State and the Congress.