{"id":26708,"date":"2011-10-24T09:10:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T13:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/us-commission-on-international\/"},"modified":"2011-10-24T09:10:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T13:10:21","slug":"us-commission-on-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/us-commission-on-international\/","title":{"rendered":"US Commission on International Religious Freedom could cease in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Congressman <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Wolf\" title=\"Frank Wolf\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Frank R. Wolf<\/a>, 72, (Virginia 10th District) proposed the bill in 1998 which created&nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; \"><i><a href=\"www.uscirf.gov\">The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i>is a bi-partisan US Federal commission, appointed by the US President to advise him and Congress on matters pertaining to the freedom of religion. The CIRF&nbsp;<\/span>reports to Congress and the State Department, is now in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s work is research and advocacy for freedom and human rights. It looks at the practice of religion and it&#8217;s freedom to exist.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>HOWEVER, there is one senator who is blocking funding,&nbsp;anonymously. We need to write to our senators. We need to speak out!!!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After November 18 the Commission may go out of business.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Congressman Wolf thinks that if the bill is passed, Obama will sign the bill. But truth be told, the President is not really in favor the Commission&#8217;s work.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=88b316d3-70df-48bb-9153-4d52efacfca5\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" style=\"border:none;float:right\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Congressman Frank R. Wolf, 72, (Virginia 10th District) proposed the bill in 1998 which created&nbsp;The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom&nbsp;is a bi-partisan US Federal commission, appointed by the US President to advise him and Congress on matters pertaining to the freedom of religion. The CIRF&nbsp;reports to Congress and the State Department, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/10\/us-commission-on-international\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Commission on International Religious Freedom could cease in November<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,41],"tags":[1864,1749,1999,1769],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}