Trump announces the creation of a commission on religious liberty
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast. Photo: Voice of America
On February 6, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he was forming a task force led by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the “targeting” of Christians, apnews.com reports. The task force, according to Trump, would be directed to "immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI – terrible – and other agencies.”
Speaking at the Capitol during the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump stated that from the very first days of our republic, faith in God has always been the primary source of strength that fills the heart of the American nation.
At the Capitol, Trump said he believes people “can’t be happy without religion, without that belief. Let’s bring religion back. Let’s bring God back into our lives.”
Trump said Bondi would also work to “fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.”
In addition to the task force, he was forming a commission on religious liberty and a White House faith office led by Paula White-Cain, a longtime pastor in the independent charismatic world, who praised Trump as “the greatest champion” any president has been “of religion, of faith and of God.”
Earlier, the UOJ reported that Trump stated that religious liberty is “part of the bedrock of American life” and called for protecting it with “absolute devotion.”
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