{"id":57844,"date":"2015-11-18T23:50:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T21:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2015\/11\/u-s-envoy-on-religious-freedom-to-raise-tolerance-issues-in-the-region\/"},"modified":"2015-11-18T23:50:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T21:50:35","slug":"u-s-envoy-on-religious-freedom-to-raise-tolerance-issues-in-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/u-s-envoy-on-religious-freedom-to-raise-tolerance-issues-in-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Envoy on Religious Freedom to Raise Tolerance Issues in the Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> CAIRO, Egypt, November 18, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ambassador David Saperstein, the Department of State\u2019s U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, arrived in Egypt yesterday to meet with Egyptian government officials, as well as religious and civil society leaders discuss advancing religious tolerance and inter-faith dialogue in the region.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cReligious tolerance and freedom are fundamental values that both the United States and Egypt cherish deeply.\u00a0 These shared values are what motivate us in the global fight against violent extremism.\u00a0 I look forward to speaking with Egyptian religious leaders about how we can work together to promote tolerance in the region.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Ambassador Saperstein arrived in Cairo following a visit to Turkey, where he delivered keynote remarks at the 2015 G20 Interfaith Summit (http:\/\/www.g20interfaith.org).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Ambassador Saperstein assumed his duties on January 6, 2015. The Ambassador at Large is, by U.S. law, a principal advisor to the U.S. President and Secretary of State and serves as the United States\u2019 chief envoy on issues of religious freedom worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO, Egypt, November 18, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; Ambassador David Saperstein, the Department of State\u2019s U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, arrived in Egypt yesterday to meet with Egyptian government officials, as well as religious and civil society leaders discuss advancing religious tolerance and inter-faith dialogue in the region. \u00a0\u201cReligious tolerance and freedom are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-57844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}