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Office Of Religious Freedom Dept: The Conservatives are installing the Office of Religious Freedom within the secular confines of Foreign Affairs, just as Bill Clinton located a similar office inside the U.S. State Department 14 years ago. The Canadian office, like the U.S. one, will criticize mistreatment of religious minorities in other countries, according to Globe and Mail. These ambassadors at large for international religious freedom in the State Department, there s been three of them. It s fair to say all three, they have been marginalized. That didn t mean they did nothing, but the State Department didn t want them in the main line of stuff, said Paul Marshall, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute s Center for Religious Freedom and video: Office of Religious Freedom is about a human issue, says new Ambassador A U.S.-based expert on religious persecution said on Wednesday that successive appointees to the post in the United States have found themselves sidelined by Washington s State Department as diplomats rebuffed attempts to introduce a new player into the country s foreign policy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.