At a time when nongovernmental organizations are under intense scrutiny for what they are doing with federal funding, religious leaders, nonprofit executives, and religious liberty advocates gathered Wednesday to hear Vice President JD Vance articulate the Trump administration’s position on religious freedom.
“Now, our administration believes we must stand for religious freedom, not just as a legal principle—as important as that is—but as a lived reality, both within our own borders and especially outside them. In recent years, too often has our nation’s international engagement on religious liberty issues been corrupted and distorted to the point of uncertainty,” Vance said at the International Religious Freedom Summit, an annual gathering of the biggest players in preserving religious conscience around the world.
Vance called out the government sending…
