With Baroness (Sayeeda) Warsi’s departure, the Government has lost an outspoken proponent for religious freedom. As a result, the Prime Minister David Cameron is coming under pressure to create an Ambassador for Religious Freedom who would travel the world making the case for those persecuted due to their faith.The Church of England bishops have, it is understood, been lobbying for some time for such a role to be created. And in his letter criticising the Prime Minister’s foreign policy strategy on Islamic extremism, the Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines, asks whether the time has come to appoint an “Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom”.On the other hand, there are those who question whether such an ambassador would be effective and wonder what that
21 August 2014, The Tablet
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