On May 10 in his patriarchal residence, Patriarch Daniel of Romania received Samuel Brownback, he United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. He was accompanied by Abigail Rupp, the United States Deputy Chief of Mission in Bucharest; by Riley Barnes and Pauletta Walsh, members of the Office of the American Ambassador for International Religious Freedom; and by Darrin Kowitz and Alexandru Climescu, of the United States of America Embassy in Bucharest.