Abstract
In 1998, the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) created both the International Religious Freedom Office in the Department of State and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Since then, a report has been produced every year within the United States, "reviewing and making policy recommendations on the facts and circumstances of religious freedom violations globally". In other words, it evaluates every country on the parameter of "religious freedom", designates "countries of particular concern" and makes recommendations to the American government. Hence, the United States tends to impose its own conception of what should be the relations between Church and State on the whole world. This paper will attempt to show why it is very dangerous for the United States to try and evaluate the religious freedom of other countries and to promote "religious freedom" as a foreign policy goal.
