In the first week of February, Washington, D.C., will play host to the International Religious Freedom Summit, the largest annual non-profit-led gathering of religious freedom advocates globally. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio should take the opportunity to quickly reorient religious freedom policy so that it is once again an American foreign policy priority.
Trump, in his first term, elevated international religious freedom in a way not done since the passage of the seminal International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. His State Department held two International Religious Freedom Ministerials in 2018 and 2019, the largest ever human rights gatherings held in the Washington D.C. neighborhood of Foggy Bottom, and he met directly with survivors of persecution.
He established the International Religious Freedom Alliance, bringing together dozens of…
