Biden to nominate global religious freedom envoy, Blinken says
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By Mark A. Kellner
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The Washington Times
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021
President Biden will nominate an at-large ambassador for international religious freedom “in the coming weeks,” Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told a human rights gathering in the District on Wednesday.
The post — whose mission is to “promote universal respect for freedom of religion or belief for all as a core objective of U.S. foreign policy” — has been vacant since January 20 of this year, when Ambassador Sam Brownback, a Trump appointee and former Kansas governor, left. The position is a creation of the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act.