Supporting Widows at Bokkos, Nigeria
We cannot replace what has been taken but we can provide a little help to see them through difficult times. Thanks to people donating to the FoRB foundation, we were able to help 100 widows and single mothers with food to help them as they continue their remarkable journey of recovery.
Announcing the New
FoRB Council of Ambassadors (FCA)
We are pleased to make you aware of the newly organized FoRB Council of Ambassadors (FCA.) Members will play a meaningful role in promoting the cause of freedom of religion or belief and human rights worldwide. Under the leadership of the FoRB staff and officers, the members of the FCA share their time, talents, and resources to move the foundations work to raise awareness, recover rights, and rebuild lives forward. FCA members also support the foundation with personal or recruited donations in the amount of $5,000 per year. For this support, the Foundation is committed to extensive engagement with FCA members, annually surveying membership for ways to improve and enhance their involvement, inviting the FCA to special FoRB events and conferences and giving Council members first opportunities to sponsor international delegations. In addition, when in London FCA members have access to private tours of the Houses of Parliament and other opportunities to connect the officers and members of the UK Parliament’s APPG for Freedom of Religion or Belief. Please visit our website FCA pages to learn more: The FoRB Council of Ambassadors
Announcing the October 2025 Bountiful Travel and FoRB Foundation Tour
Now Available to Book
The FoRB Foundation has partnered with Bountiful Travel, a tour operator who has spent years developing relationships with amazing LDS speakers and authorities throughout the world to provide unforgettable and uplifting travel experiences. Our tour will be led by Matthew and Julie Jones, co-Founders of The FoRB Foundation and by nineteenth-century British, religious, and LDS historian, Kristine Frederickson, a Director of the Interpreter Foundation. Travelers will experience a two-part tour that will provide a unique visit to the UK. Even if you are an experienced anglophile, this tour will give you opportunities to focus on lesser visited highlights in London, on the FoRB work occurring in the UK Parliament, and on the religious, political and social conditions in nineteenth century England that led to and produced “seekers” after the truths found in the restored gospel of The Chruch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In addition, your participation in this special tour will directly support the work of The Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) Foundation (a 501c3 nonprofit and a registered UK Charity.)
Our tour will start outside the capital as we visit important British History sights in Bath, founded by the Romans in the first century A.D. and then developed into one of the most fashionable places to live in the 18th century. Famed authors Jane Austen and Mary Shelly called Bath home. In Bath we will have a dinner program and talk from Elder Martin G. Turvey Europe North Area Seventy and Bath resident. The next day we travel on to Church historical sites, among them those in South Wales. We move on to Gloucester to the Gadfield Elm Chapel and Benbow Farm, all locales where missionaries converted many to the restored gospel. We go on to visit 19th-century villages in the Cotswold’s before stopping in Oxford to tour and attend a special Anglican Evensong Service in Oxfords Pembroke College Chapel, led by the Reverend Doctor Andrew Teal. Along the way there will be fascinating insights, sumptuous gardens, historic churches, and picture-perfect villages and memory making experiences.
The second part of our tour will be five days in London, which will provide an unforgettable insider’s experience as you privately tour the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abby, and visit “hidden gem” museums. In the evenings, we will curate the best performances in London and offer optional tickets to tour participants for small group theatre and music experiences. In Parliament’s Portcullis House, guest lecturers will review the UK’s current role as a leading advocate for International Religious Freedom and Human Rights. Your attendance will result in a unique understanding of the International Religious Liberty movement from the perspectives of staff, MPs and other officials currently working with the UK APPG for International Freedom of Religion or Belief. Home – APPG for International Freedom of Religion or Belief
Note that the FoRB Foundation and the APPG IFRB both exist to raise awareness, recover rights, and rebuild lives of those impacted by FoRB violations around the world. As The FoRB Foundation funds this important work, a modest portion of your tour price will be a direct donation to The FoRB Foundation, (a 501c3 nonprofit and a registered UK Charity.) Donor documents will be issued for your tax reporting purposes.
Click here for further tour details and to book. We would love to have you join us:
British & LDS Church History with The Freedom of Religion or Belief Foundation in the UK – Bountiful Travel
The FoRB Foundation participates in the 2025 International Religious Freedom Summit
In early February, Foundation Team members will attend and be part of the IRF Summit, International Religious Freedom Summit (IRF Summit), which is held annually in Washington DC. The IRF Summit brings together a broad coalition of partners who passionately support religious freedom around the globe for an annual two-day in-person event. Ninety plus organizations attend, representing over thirty distinct faith traditions and they are the core of the civil society movement to advance international religious freedom around the globe.
Over the past three years, Summit partners including The FoRB Foundation, have built a diverse coalition that is working to advance freedom of religion, conscience, and belief around the world. However, even as the movement for international religious freedom grows, we are witnessing increased levels of religious restriction and persecution. Raising our voices in solidarity with those who suffer due to their belief is more important than ever.
The FoRB Foundation promotes this effort to gain political support for the global religious freedom movement and embolden civil society, people of faith, and governments to take a stand for religious freedom. We do this through our support of the APPG for International Freedom of Religion or Belief Home – APPG for International Freedom of Religion or Belief and other similar governmental organizations.
During this year’s IRF Summit, The Foundation will hold a special dinner on Monday evening February 3, to welcome members and friends of the newly created FoRB Council of Ambassadors (FCA) The FoRB Council of Ambassadors. Our dinner will be held at Sette Osteria on Connecticut Avenue near the Washington Hilton IRF Summit headquarters.