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Protesters attempt to block a street during a demonstration to demand the release of the hostages taken by Hamas militants into the Gaza Strip during the Oct. 7th attack, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday Jan. 20, 2024. After the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Israelis put aside their differences and rallied behind the war effort in Gaza. But as the war grinds on, the mood of the Israeli public is shifting and old divisions are reemerging. The catalyst is a rift over the polarizing leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a growing frustration with his management of the war. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) **FILE**

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In this Oct. 29, 2019, file photo visitors look at the surveillance cameras by China's telecoms equipment giant Huawei on display at the China Public Security Expo in Shenzhen, China's Guangdong province. Sam Brownback, the former U.S. envoy for international religious freedom during the Trump administration, said Wednesday that China's use of high-tech tools to repress its religious minorities will lead to more authoritarian crackdowns around the globe. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China’s surveillance tech is a global threat to religious freedom, former U.S. envoy Brownback says

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

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FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2018, file photo, an Uighur woman shuttles school children on an electric scooter as they ride past a propaganda poster showing China's President Xi Jinping joining hands with a group of Uighur elders in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region. The Trump administration, locked in a trade war with China, is increasing the pressure on Beijing over what it says is the systematic oppression of ethnic minority Muslims. American officials hosted a panel Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly gathering in New York to highlight the plight of Uighurs, whose native land in China’s far western Xinjiang province they say is a police state. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

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Dead bodies of victims lie inside St. Sebastian's Church damaged in blast in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 21, 2019. More than two hundred people were killed and hundreds more injured in eight blasts that rocked churches and hotels in and just outside Sri Lanka's capital on Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Chamila Karunarathne)

Religious freedom, stopping church attacks a Trump foreign policy priority

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Brownback to be honored for work as religious freedom envoy

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While serving as Kansas governor, Sam Brownback once signed legislation largely condemned by Muslim groups. (Associated Press)

Sam Brownback blasts China ‘vocational training’ schools for Uighur Muslims

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, a guard tower and barbed wire fences surround an internment facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. A U.S. envoy on religion has described China’s internment of an estimated 1 million Muslims as a “horrific situation.” Ambassador-at-large Sam Brownback called for an independent investigation into the detentions and the release of those being held. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan/file)

US envoy calls China’s Muslim camps ‘horrific,’ wants probe

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China protests US criticism of policies on religion

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Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, speaks to journalists in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. Pakistan has &quot;a desire to change&quot; its ways and be removed from an American blacklist of countries that infringe religious freedoms, Brownback said Sunday on a tour of a Mideast long riven by faith. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell) **FILE**

US religious freedom envoy: Pakistan has ‘desire to change’

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