international religious freedom is donald trump trying to hijack religion for political purposes. welcome to conflict zone thank you the u.s. recently held what was billed as the world's largest meeting on religious freedom international religious freedom delegates were welcomed by the same donald trump who said in 2016 i think islam hates us and when he became president a year later moved to bar the citizens of several muslim majority countries from entering the u.s. how does that help you all can pay for religious freedom and i see it all is something for us that religious freedom is specifically a right of everybody everywhere all the time and what he's primarily discussing are immigration issues but you're certainly immigrated to your own party i mean people like john. ok the late john mccain lindsey graham who were horrified by the state said this executive order sends a signal intended or not that america does not want muslims coming into this country and you can go to any state united states and you have mosque there or there and if you want to open up one yourself you can do it and the point of what we were talking about when i was psyched about here is international religious freedom. and that i

religious freedom coincided with the creation of a new commission this year to explore inalienable rights in u.s. foreign policy is that right. you said last meeting you had sat with your last meeting on religious international religious freedom the one you held this year. you had a new commission this year to explore in alienable right that was you know that i thought that was announced by the secretary but it wasn't at the ministerial if that's what you're referring to sir his is no no no i don't know but it came roughly at the same time came from the same also here this with these are very separate entities but i mean you can can fight him if you want but they're separate entities there seems to be a growing impression that you're prioritizing religious rights at the expense of other rights in. 2016 martin castro who chaired the u.s. commission on civil rights wrote that religious freedom is often used as a code word for discrimination intolerance racism sexism homophobia and that that worry is present now isn't. that what that worries that concern is present not just in. religious freedom in the space they occupy is religious freedom internationally it's not domestically. this is a fundamental right it's a fundamental rig

religious freedom is one of my highest priorities and always has been viewed last year, our secretary of state come up, hosted the first ever ministerial to advance international religious freedom. this year's ministerial, secretary pompeo announced plans to create the international religiousedom alliance, of like-minded nations devoted to confronting religious persecution all around the world. i have appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-semitism. we are standing up for almost 250 million christians around the world who are persecuted for their faith. it is estimated 11 christians -- justed every day think of this. day, forians per following the teachings of christ. who would think that was possible in this day and age? who would think it was possible? with us today is pastor andrew bunsen, who was imprisoned in turkey for a long time. last year, my administration was thrilled to bring him back home after a very short and respectful negotiation with a , a man who has become a friend of mine fortunately, president erdogan of turkey. i called the president and said, i am an innocent man. they had been trying to get andrew out a long time, previous administration, i don't think they tried to hard unfortunately. i want to thank president argon want to thankd i

religious freedom is one of my highest priorities and always has been. last year our secretary of state mike pompeo hosted the first to advanceerial international religious freedom and this year's ministerial, secretary pompeo announced plans to create the international religiousreedom alliance, an alliance of like-minded nations devoted to confronting religious persecution all around the world. i've appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-semitism, we are standing up for almost 250 million christians around the world who are persecuted who have faith it is estimated that 11 christians are killed every day for the following -- just think of this, 11 christians a day for following the teachings of christ, who would even think that's possible? in this day and age, who would think if that is possible? with us today is pastor andrew brunson, who was imprisoned in period ofa long time. might ministration was road to bring him back home after a very short and respectful negotiation with a very strong man and a man who has become a friend of mine oganunately, president erd of turkey. i called the president and said he has been in his -- he is an innocent man. don't think previous administrations try too hard unfortunately but i want to erdogan anddent i

international religious freedom alliance inviting countries with shared values to join in the fight against images persecution. in new york, lauren green, fox news. >> donald trump announcing allocation of an additional $25 million to protect religious freedom. joining me now, us ambassador at large for international religious freedom sam brownback, good to have you. mike pence to aim at beijing today, let's listen. >> the communist party in china has arrested christian pastors to been a stable of bibles, demolish a defendant president million believers in the muslim population. >> what is being done to confront china's crackdown on both christians and muslims? >> we are raising this issue, pushing it forward tomorrow at the un, the deputy secretary of state will be hosting an event, and what is taking place to the muslim population there and we are continuing to raise this issue and build alliances of other individual countries that are concerned about what is taking place to their religious adherents that are active in china, china is at war with faith but it is a war they will not win. we are confronting them and have a growing alliance of other countries. >> christians are being slaughtered and churches are being destroyed across the mi

religious freedom is one of my highest priorities and always has been. last year our secretary of state mike pompeo hosted the first-ever ministerial to advance international religious freedom. in this year's ministerial secretary pompeo announced plans to create the international religiousointed a special enjoy to monitor and combat anti-semitism where standing up for 250 million christians around the world who are persecuted çfor their faith. it is estimated that 11 christians are killed every day for the following -- just think of this, 11 christians a day for following the teachings of christ. who would even think that's possible in this day in age? who would thip it's possible? with us today is pastor andrew brunson who was imprisoned in turkey for a long period of time. last year my administration was thrilled to bring him back home after a very short and respectful negotiation with a very strong man and a man who has become a friend of mine fortunately, president erdogan of turkey. i called the president and i said he is an innocent man. they have been trying to get andrew out for a long time, previous administration. i don't think they tried too hard, unfortunately. but i want to thank president erdogan and i want to thank you, pastor, for being here with us tod