26 Professional Fellows exchange participants took part in the Second Annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom. The Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, from July 16 to 18, is the largest religious freedom event of its kind in the world.

With more than 1,000 civil society and religious leaders, and more than 100 foreign delegations invited, this year’s gathering marks the first time a Secretary of State has convened back-to-back Ministerials on the same human rights issue. Last year’s inaugural Ministerial was the first-ever to focus solely on the unalienable human right of religious freedom. Original public domain image from Flickr