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Eugene

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Fri Feb 7, 2025, 10:34 AM Feb 7

Paula White, who called BLM the 'anti-Christ,' named by Trump as head of new White House Faith Office [View all]

Source: theGrio

Paula White, who called BLM the ‘anti-Christ,’ named by Trump as head of new White House Faith Office

Gerren Keith Gaynor
Thu, February 6, 2025 at 7:51 AM EST·5 min read

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that he would create a new White House Faith Office and named television evangelist Rev. Paula White to lead it. Trump shared the news while speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., where faith leaders and bipartisan members of Congress gathered for the annual event.

It’s not exactly clear what the function of the new White House Faith Office will be, and the White House did not immediately respond to an email request from theGrio seeking more details. However, during his remarks on Thursday, Trump emphasized the need to protect religious liberty. He also announced that the White House is establishing a commission on religious liberty and railed against “anti-Christian bias.”

“If we don’t have religious liberty, then we don’t have a free country. We probably don’t even have a country,” said Trump. “While I am in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals, and in our public squares, and we will bring our countries back together as one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.”

Rev. Paula White being tapped to lead the new White House Faith Office isn’t exactly surprising. ...

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/news/paula-white-called-blm-anti-125104618.html

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