{"id":2162,"date":"2025-02-09T16:11:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T15:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2025-02-09T16:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T15:11:44","slug":"trump-signs-executive-order-to-fight-anti-christian-bias-creates-religious-office-in-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=2162","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs executive order to fight \u201canti-Christian bias\u201d, creates religious office in White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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United States President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to end \u201canti-Christian bias\u201d within the federal government.<\/p>\n

Trump disclosed this on Thursday February 6 during the National Prayer Breakfast at the US Capitol, Washington.<\/p>\n

The president also appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead a taskforce at the Justice Department to spearhead the effort.<\/p>\n

He said the team would fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism and move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve never had that before, but this is a very powerful document I am signing. You got it now \u2013 first time you\u2019ve had it. If we don\u2019t have religious liberty, then we don\u2019t have a free country. We probably don\u2019t have a country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mission of this taskforce will be 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 and other agencies,\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said.<\/p>\n

The order will reverse what it calls an \u201cegregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offences\u201d under former President Joe Biden. It cited the convictions of anti-abortion demonstrators for blocking access to aborting clinics.<\/p>\n

Trump also announced plans to convene a new presidential commission or religious liberty, describing it as \u201ca very big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president, who was inaugurated for a second term of four years in office on January 20, also hinted of a plan to put in place a new faith office in the White House headed by a televangelist and long-time spiritual adviser, Rev. Paula White.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the initiative is seen in some quarters as a veiled move to bestow privilege on evangelical Christianity over other religious minorities.<\/p>\n

Critics say Trump has turned religious freedom on its head for singling out one faith \u2013 Christianity.<\/p>\n

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