Past, present U.S. officials cite value of protecting religious freedom

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Melissa Rogers, executive director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, garnered applause at the summit when she said Biden would appoint a new at-large ambassador for international religious freedom "in the coming weeks.
59% : Lankford received the summit's Inaugural International Religious Freedom Champion Awards: "He's our go-to guy on religious freedom," said Sam Brownback, a former U.S. at-large ambassador for international religious freedom and summit co-chair with Katrina Lantos Swett, daughter of Tom Lantos, the only member of Congress to have been a Holocaust survivor.
58% : WASHINGTON -- In office or out of office, past and present leaders in the U.S. government stressed the need to push for religious freedom across the world during the July 13-15 International Religious Freedom Summit held in Washington.
49% : House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., delivered prerecorded remarks, as did Samantha Power, the current administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and onetime U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, as well as Pompeo's successor as secretary of state, Antony Blinken.
39% : "A society that lacks regard for religious liberty will soon see all political liberties stamped out," Pompeo said.
39% : Denying religious freedom is "associated with higher levels of conflict and violence," Power said.
35% : "Forced abortion and sterilization should strike at the heart of every American who cares -- or claims to care -- about what happens in the world," Pompeo said, repeating a charge leveled against China's treatment of Uighur Muslim women.
33% : If religious freedom is not protected, he added, "all other rights are jeopardized too."

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