US Dissatisfied With Religious Freedom Around the World, Says Ambassador Brownback

U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Samuel D. Brownback speaks to celebrate International Religious Freedom Day, which commemorates the passage of the U.S. International Religious Freedom Act in 1998, at the Foreign Press Center in Washington on Oct. 25, 2018. Jennifer Zeng/The Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—As the United States celebrates the 20th anniversary of the International Religious Freedom Act, 80 percent of the world’s population lives in a religiously restricted environment, with China intensifying its persecution of all faiths.

Even so, the United States will continue to pursue the religious freedom of everybody, everywhere, as a God-given right, said U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Samuel Brownback on Oct. 25.