Sam Brownback: “This is the best foreign policy tool we've got, when you save somebody's life.”

Promotion of international religious freedom is in our national interest, and it directly supports national security priorities including the defeat of ISIS and other violent extremist groups.

There are some good things happening.

We have to get more focus on this by a broader cross-section, or we will not be effective in this.

USAID should fund directly to independent religious organizations to do the good work that they have been doing.