including student groups, do this as well. U.S. embassies also regularly sponsor and engage in interfaith dialogue, including by participating in roundtables and meeting with religious leaders, and by hosting religious leaders at interfaith events like Ramadan iftars or Passover Seders. This year, Secretary Kerry created a new Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives at the State Department to help set Department policy on engagement with faith-based communities and work in conjunction with State Department bureaus and diplomatic posts to reach out to those communities to advance the Department’s diplomacy and development objectives. As part of Secretary Kerry’s Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society, the State Department and White House cochair a Working Group on Religion and Foreign Policy, which includes a SubGroup on International Religious Freedom, Democracy, and Stability through which we engage with U.S. and foreign civil society representatives to advance this fundamental freedom and foster mutual respect for diversity.