On July 13-15, the first International Religious Freedom Summit took place in Washington, DC. There were over 70 faith groups and NGOs from all over the world, with 1,200 participants making the Summit that shapes the feature of IRF and civil society-initiated gathering.
I see it with two perspectives; one is a celebration of International Religions Freedom from the diversified groups, with an essence of testimonials of religious and minority atrocities, Genocide and panel discussions on what needs to be done as a legal framework or political initiative.
And second is activists developing connections by sharing their information and building professional relationships to work in an organizational effort.
The IRF Summit was co-chaired by Sam Brownback, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, and Katrina Lantos Swett, President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights. The Summit also featured remarks from Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and several members of Congress including Nancy Pelosi, Chris Coons, Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, James Lankford, Ro Khanna, Henry Cuellar, and Chris Smith. And USAID Administrator