{"id":10088,"date":"2011-04-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/27\/senate-confirms-religious-freedom-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2011-04-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T12:00:00","slug":"senate-confirms-religious-freedom-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/04\/27\/senate-confirms-religious-freedom-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Religious Freedom Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, U.S., April 2011 (Religion News Service): A New York minister will soon fill the Obama administration&#8217;s long-vacant position to oversee international religious freedom after the Senate voted to confirm the Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook for the post. Thursday&#8217;s (April 14) voice vote positions Cook to become the first female and the first African-American in the post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am &#8230; persuaded in my mind, heart, and soul that religious freedom is the birthright of all people everywhere; a foundation of civil society, a key to international security, and it must always be a pillar of U.S. foreign policy,&#8221; she said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>During hearings, Cook cited her travels and interfaith work on five continents and her experience as a New York police chaplain as qualifications for the ambassadorial post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service WASHINGTON, U.S., April 2011 (Religion News Service): A New York minister will soon fill the Obama administration&#8217;s,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}