Report on persecution of Christians presented in U.S.
Trump speaks before the White House Religious Liberty Commission. Photo: Getty Images
On Friday, June 26, 2026, members of the White House Commission on Religious Freedom presented Donald Trump with a final report of more than 200 pages, prepared after a year-long investigation. This was reported by The Christian Post.
Drawing on testimony from more than 100 witnesses, the authors of the document concluded that in today’s America, "religion is treated not as a protected and valued contribution to public life, but as a problem or annoyance to be managed, restricted, or sidelined.”
Speaking in Washington on the day the report was released, Donald Trump accused radical leftists of “state-sanctioned hostility” toward Christians.
“They turned a nation founded on freedom for believers into a place where Catholics were targeted by the FBI, where pro-life grandmothers were put in jail for praying and where members of our military were thrown out of the armed forces for their religious lives,” the president said.
Trump warned that his opponents are radicalizing in their antipathy toward Christianity as they drift further into overt communism, which he called a "godless" ideology that has failed repeatedly.
The report documents numerous cases of reprisals against doctors who refuse to participate in “gender transition” procedures, as well as service members who lost pensions and benefits after refusing vaccination on grounds of conscience.
Experts also described cases of schoolchildren being mocked for their Christian faith and school administrations demanding that the name of Jesus Christ be removed from graduation speeches.
To address the situation, the Commission presented 12 recommendations, including the creation of special hotlines within the Department of Justice for reporting discrimination against Christians. The experts also called for the repeal of the Johnson Amendment, which they said the authorities use as a tool to censor sermons and restrict the right of clergy to offer spiritual guidance to their communities.
As the UOJ reported, Patriarch Theophilos presented Donald Trump with the highest order of the Jerusalem Church.
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