US Committed to Advancing Religious Liberty Around the World, Vance Says

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The vice president said the United States has โ€™much more to do’ to secure religious freedom at home and abroad.

WASHINGTONโ€”Vice President JD Vance reiterated the United Statesโ€™ commitment to upholding religious freedom at home and abroad, saying the Trump administration has โ€œmuch more to do.โ€

โ€œOur administration believes we must stand for religious freedomโ€”not just as a legal principle, as important as that is, but as a lived reality, both within our own borders and especially outside,โ€ Vance said in a speech at the International Religious Freedom Summit on Feb. 5.

โ€œYou shouldnโ€™t have to leave your faith at the door of your peopleโ€™s government, and under President Trumpโ€™s leadership, you wonโ€™t have to.โ€

He said the administration is โ€œintent on not just restoring but on expanding the achievements of the first four years.โ€

In the first Trump administration, Vance said, President Donald Trump had made promoting religious freedom a foreign policy priority in China, across Europe, and throughout Africa and the Middle East.

Trump in 2019 met more than two dozen victims of religious persecution from countries such as China and North Korea and told them, โ€œEach of you has now become a witness to the importance of advancing religious liberty all around the world.โ€

The first Trump administration in 2020 also sanctioned a Chinese official for persecuting the faith group Falun Gong, marking the first time the United States had imposed such a penalty over the abuse.

In the last days of Trumpโ€™s first term, the State Department declared the repression of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang a genocide, and a number of other nations followed suit.

Vance also criticized previous U.S. funding for helping to spread atheism and vowed to end such spending, making reference to a $500,000 funding opportunity from the State Department in 2021 for programs that it said would โ€œpromote and defend religious freedom inclusive of atheist, humanist, non-practicing and non-affiliated individuals.โ€

โ€œHow did America get to the point where weโ€™re sending hundreds of thousands of dollars abroad to NGOs that are dedicated to spreading atheism all over the globe?โ€ he said.

โ€œThat is not what leadership on protecting the rights of the faithful looks like, and it ends with this administration.โ€

Byย Eva Fu

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