(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback speaks to reporters as he unveils the annual U.S. assessment of religious freedom around the world, at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, May 29, 2018. Washington • The U. S. ambassador for religious freedom called for renewed activism on protecting faiths around the globe Friday as religious liberty advocates gathered in the nation’s capital to mark the 20th anniversary of the International Religious Freedom Act. “We should push and we should push it hard,” Sam Brownback said at the event sponsored by the Religious Freedom Institute and Baylor University, which drew more than 100 people to the Hyatt Regency Washington hotel on Capitol Hill. “You get this one right — you get religious freedom right — a lot of other freedoms bloom,” Brownback said. “You get this one wrong, a lot of other freedoms contract.” Brownback, a former U.S. senator and Kansas governor who was confirmed in January as the fifth U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, was a key sponsor of the 1998 law that called for the creation of a bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, charged with producing an annual report on the […]
