
The ministerial conference on advancing religious freedom | Claire Provost
Prominent Christian conservatives and opponents of abortion and same-sex marriage – including several designated by the Southern Law Poverty Center as anti-LGBT “hate groups” – were among the participants at a high-level US government meeting on ‘religious freedom’ in Washington DC this week. The three-day event, hosted by secretary of state Mike Pompeo, has the stated aim to identify “concrete ways to combat religious persecution and discrimination”.