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Question of the Day By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times - 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.
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The United States announced visa restrictions against an official of the People’s Republic of China for involvement in gross violations of human rights.
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The United States announced visa restrictions against an official of the People’s Republic of China for involvement in gross violations of human rights, in particular, the arbitrary detention of Falun Gong practitioners due to their spiritual beliefs. Yu Hui, former Office Director of the so-called “Central Leading Group on Preventing and Dealing with Heretical Religions” of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, was barred from entry into the United States, along with his immediate family members.
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President Joe Biden will meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-In at the White House on Friday, the U.S. president’s second in-person summit with a foreign leader since taking office.
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President Joe Biden will meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-In at the White House on Friday
A core focus of the meeting will be the efforts to make the Korean peninsula a “nuclear-free environment,” per an administration official
The two leaders will also discuss their nations strategy on North Korea, which comes after the Biden administration completed a policy review of North Korea
In his comments about the report, Blinken said that religious freedom is a human right.
“[Religious freedom] goes to the heart of what it means to be human to think freely, to follow our conscience, to change our beliefs if our hearts and minds lead us to do so, to express those beliefs in public and in private,” he said. “This freedom is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It’s also part of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Our country’s commitment to defending freedom of religion and belief goes back centuries. It continues today.”