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What's behind America's promotion of religious liberty abroad

  • Written by Gene Zubovich, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University in St Louis
Samuel Brownback appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

On Jan. 24, the Senate confirmed Sam Brownback, the governor of Kansas – a Methodist, who converted to Catholicism and today attends an evangelical church – for the position of ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. On...

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