Taiwan and the United States will jointly hold a regional dialogue of civil societies on religious freedom on March 11-12, which will be attended by U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback. The event, which is aimed at promoting religious freedom, human rights and democracy in the Indo-Pacific region, is being organized by the Taipei-based non-profit Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD), commissioned by Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And so far more than ten countries in this region are expected to participate in this dialogue. Given this event we can easily sense the growing awareness toward religious freedom in the international community. Since 2017 Taiwan religious societies started to concern about the legislation of religious law—a religious awakening that was heralded by some movements such as the one of some Taoist association in Taiwan that launched a demonstration against Taiwan government’s “ban on the burning of incense in temples” and th...