Ambassador Brownback: 'Religious Freedom is the Most Important Foreign Relations Topic Today'

Catholic News Agency ^ | 2/6/18 | Courtney Grogan

[marshmallow]

Washington D.C., Feb 6, 2018 / 03:46 pm (ACI Prensa).- In his first public appearance as US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback spoke to Muslim, Jewish, and Christians leaders gathered to discuss their shared commitment to promoting peace and protecting religious minorities in the Muslim world.

“I think religious freedom is the most important foreign relations topic today,” Brownback told the delegates at the Alliance of Virtue for the Common Good Conference in Washington, DC.

“The world needs reconciliation. It needs it between the Abrahamic faiths,” the ambassador said.

The three-day event is hosted by the Middle East-based Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, and will culminate in the signing of a declaration on religious freedom the morning of Feb. 7.

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of the Archdiocese of Washington is on the steering committee for the interfaith conference, along with Rabbi David Saperstein and other Muslim and Evangelical leaders.

The Washington Declaration will build upon the 2016 Marrakesh Declaration, which affirmed the rights of religious minorities in Muslim majority countries, by adding an additional call to respect Muslims living in the U.S.

[Mariner]

“’Religious Freedom is the Most Important Foreign Relations Topic Today’”

If he really, honestly believes this, he’s stupid.

[DesertRhino]

The ignorant ass. Equating muslim with Christian and Judaism. And sayin we need more Islam. I’d swap those moslems for some Buddhists and Taoists -any- day.

[Theodore R.]

They surely didn’t like him in KS any more; maybe this is the gig for him now.

[Marchmain]

McCarrick is a mover and shaker. He helped smooth the way for Bergolio. Why exactly he’s involved here I don’t know, but it’s surely not merely for a nice ecclesiastical blessing or such.