{"id":7750,"date":"2026-01-28T13:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/factsheet-key-u-s-government-irf-positions\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:48:03","slug":"factsheet-key-u-s-government-irf-positions","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/factsheet-key-u-s-government-irf-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Factsheet: Key U.S. Government IRF Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"block-layout-region\">\n<div id=\"block-herointernalpageblock\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-hero-internal-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero_wrapper custom-hero  internal-hero-js-adjust\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero\" style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 3%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)), url(\" https: www.uscirf.gov themes custom uscirf2020 assets images defaulthero.png\"); background-position-x: center; background-position-y: center\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h1 class=\"internal-hero-title\">Factsheet: Key U.S. Government IRF Positions  <\/h1>\n<div class=\"custom-breadcrumb hidden\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"insertNavHere\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"container\">\n              <a target=\"_blank\" id=\"main-content\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-drupal-messages-fallback class=\"hidden\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-uscirf2020-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"basic-page\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-section paragraph-unique-16322\" style=\"\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-animation-delay=\"0.3\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"single-container row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"full-content\">\n<p>Click here for the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2021%20Factsheet%20-%20IRF%20Vacancies.pdf\">Factsheet on Key U.S. Government IRF Positions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This factsheet provides an overview of the key political appointments within the U.S. government that have the most relevance to international religious freedom (IRF). The primary IRF positions that the president appoints derive from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?path=\/prelim@title22\/chapter73&amp;edition=prelim\">International Religious Freedom Act of 1998<\/a> (IRFA): the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom at the State Department; the Special Adviser for International Religious Freedom on the National Security Council (NSC) staff; and three of the nine USCIRF Commissioners. In addition, various current or recent State Department special envoy and representative positions\u2014created either by acts of Congress or by presidents or secretaries of state\u2014are relevant to IRF promotion.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-taxonomytermview\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-taxonomy-term-view\">\n<div class=\"content\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/publication\/factsheet-key-us-government-irf-positions?rand=6542\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Factsheet: Key U.S. Government IRF Positions Click here for the\u00a0Factsheet on Key U.S. Government IRF Positions This factsheet provides an overview of the key political appointments within the U.S. government that have the most relevance to international religious freedom (IRF). The primary IRF positions that the president appoints derive from the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA): the Ambassador-at-Large&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99044,"featured_media":7751,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[927,1511,1512,1006,1008,943],"ground_category":[315,320],"class_list":["post-7750","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-factsheet","tag-government","tag-irf","tag-key","tag-positions","tag-u-s","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-5-time-martyrdom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2021-01\/irf-related%20positions.JPG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/7750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/7750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}