United States diplomats and other Foreign 
Service officers, and the relevance and relation-
ship of international religious freedom to 
United States defense, diplomacy, development, 
and public affairs efforts. The Secretary of 
State should ensure the availability of sufficient 
resources to develop and implement such cur-
riculum. 
‘‘(C) INFORMATION
SHARING.—The cur-
riculum and training materials developed under 
this paragraph shall be shared with the United 
States Armed Forces and other Federal depart-
ments and agencies with personnel who are sta-
tioned overseas, as appropriate, to provide 
training on— 
‘‘(i) United States religious freedom 
policies; 
‘‘(ii) religious traditions; 
‘‘(iii) religious engagement strategies; 
‘‘(iv) religious and cultural issues; and 
‘‘(v) efforts to counter violent religious 
extremism.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘The Sec-
retary of State’’ and inserting ‘‘REFUGEES.—The 
Secretary of State’’; and 
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(3) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘The Sec-
retary of State’’ and inserting ‘‘CHILD SOLDIERS.— 
The Secretary of State’’. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, with 
the assistance of the Ambassador at Large for Inter-
national Religious Freedom, and the Director of the For-
eign Service Institute, located at the George P. Shultz Na-
tional Foreign Affairs Training Center, shall submit a re-
port to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the Senate that contains a plan for undertaking 
training for Foreign Service officers under section 708 of 
the Foreign Services Act of 1980, as amended by sub-
section (a). 
SEC. 104. PRISONER LISTS AND ISSUE BRIEFS ON RELI-
GIOUS FREEDOM CONCERNS. 
Section 108 of the International Religious Freedom 
Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6417) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘faith,’’ and 
inserting ‘‘activities, religious freedom advocacy, or 
efforts to protect and advance the universally recog-
nized right to the freedom of religion,’’; 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘, as appro-
priate, provide’’ and inserting ‘‘make available’’; and 
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(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) VICTIMS LIST MAINTAINED BY THE UNITED 
STATES COMMISSION
ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS 
FREEDOM.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Commission shall 
make publicly available, to the extent practicable, 
online and in official publications, lists of persons it 
determines are imprisoned or detained, have dis-
appeared, been placed under house arrest, been tor-
tured, or subjected to forced renunciations of faith 
for their religious activity or religious freedom advo-
cacy by the government of a foreign country that the 
Commission recommends for designation as a coun-
try of particular concern for religious freedom under 
section 402(b)(1)(A)(ii) or by a non-state actor that 
the Commission recommends for designation as an 
entity of particular concern for religious freedom 
under section 301 of the Frank R. Wolf Inter-
national Religious Freedom Act and include as much 
publicly available information as practicable on the 
conditions and circumstances of such persons. 
‘‘(2) DISCRETION.—In compiling lists under 
paragraph (1), the Commission shall exercise all ap-
propriate discretion, including consideration of the 
safety and security of, and benefit to, the persons 
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who may be included on the lists and the families of 
such persons.’’. 
TITLE II—NATIONAL SECURITY 
COUNCIL 
SEC. 201. SPECIAL ADVISER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELI-
GIOUS FREEDOM. 
The position described in section 101(k) of the Na-
tional Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3021(k)) should 
assist the Ambassador at Large for International Reli-
gious Freedom to coordinate international religious free-
dom policies and strategies throughout the executive 
branch and within any interagency policy committee of 
which the Ambassador at Large is a member. 
TITLE III—PRESIDENTIAL 
ACTIONS 
SEC. 301. NON-STATE ACTOR DESIGNATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President, concurrent with 
the annual foreign country review required under section 
402(b)(1)(A) of the International Religious Freedom Act 
of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6442(b)(1)(A)), shall— 
(1) review and identify any non-state actors op-
erating in any such reviewed country or surrounding 
region that have engaged in particularly severe viola-
tions of religious freedom; and 
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(2) designate, in a manner consistent with such 
Act, each such non-state actor as an entity of par-
ticular concern for religious freedom. 
(b) REPORT.—Whenever the President designates a 
non-state actor under subsection (a) as an entity of par-
ticular concern for religious freedom, the President, as 
soon as practicable after the designation is made, shall 
submit a report to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees that describes the reasons for such designation. 
(c) ACTIONS.—The President should take specific ac-
tions, when practicable, to address severe violations of reli-
gious freedom of non-state actors that are designated 
under subsection (a)(2). 
(d) DEPARTMENT OF STATE ANNUAL REPORT.—The 
Secretary of State should include information detailing the 
reasons the President designated a non-state actor as an 
entity of particular concern for religious freedom under 
subsection (a) in the Annual Report required under sec-
tion 102(b)(1) of the International Religious Freedom Act 
of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6412(b)(1)). 
(e) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) the Secretary of State should work with 
Congress and the U.S. Commission on International 
Religious Freedom— 
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