{"id":1660,"date":"2011-05-24T12:09:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2011-05-24T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T16:11:27","slug":"1660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/2011\/05\/1660.html","title":{"rendered":"Congressman says religious freedom deserves higher priority"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congressman Wolf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Legislation\u00a0has been\u00a0introduced on Capitol Hill requiring President Barack Obama’s administration to\u00a0give international religious freedom a higher priority.<\/p>\n

Congressman\u00a0Frank Wolf, who authored the 1998\u00a0law establishing the office,\u00a0has proposed an amendment that would give the office’s\u00a0ambassador-at-large new, direct contact with the Secretary of State\u00a0as well as\u00a0greater access to the president’s foreign policy decision-making, reports Stephanie Samuel of the Christian Post.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Under Wolf’s bill, newly confirmed IRF Ambassador-at-Large Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook would be moved from the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor into Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s office.<\/p>\n

“Ambassador Cook would also be given oversight and management authority of the IRF Office and other religiously oriented positions and programs at the State Department,” reports Samuel. The Christian Post<\/em> is an internet newsite.<\/p>\n

According to a Pew Research study released in December 2009, one-third of all nations severely restrict religious freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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