---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6415"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6415"
heading: "Programs and allocations of funds by United States missions abroad"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6415"
units:
  - "Chapter 73 — International Religious Freedom"
  - "Subchapter I — Department of State Activities"
---

# §6415. Programs and allocations of funds by United States missions abroad


It is the sense of the Congress that—

- (1) United States diplomatic missions in countries the [governments](/usc/22/6402.md?p=8) of which engage in or tolerate violations of the internationally recognized right to freedom of religion should develop, as part of annual program planning, a strategy to promote respect for the internationally recognized right to freedom of religion; and
- (2) in allocating or recommending the allocation of funds or the recommendation of candidates for programs and grants funded by the United States [Government](/usc/22/6402.md?p=8), United States diplomatic missions should give particular consideration to those programs and candidates deemed to assist in the promotion of the right to religious freedom.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–292, title I, § 106, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2796.)