Sunday 16/March/2025 – 02:08 PM
Foreign Policy magazine published a report on the deterioration of relations between the new American administration and the Church and Christians, due to Trump’s stop for all aid and the flow of funds for the churches and its banks for charitable work and assistance, whether health, educational or external.
What is the relationship between the American Church and the administration throughout the ages?
Since the end of the Second World War, the American administration and the church have been one cooperative entity in order to provide humanitarian aid to the victims of the war, and then the relationship with new needs has evolved, such as providing aid to the poor and building hospitals and schools.
In the aftermath of World War II, religious relief organizations worked alongside the US government to provide aid and address hunger, poverty and displacement around the world. In the early first decade of the twenty -first century, the George W. Bush administration established the “Religious Initiatives” program, which made religious social services providers – including Evangelical groups – institutional partners of the American government.
The relationship between the Church and the new American administration during the Trump era
Despite the preservation of all previous American departments on these relations, the administration of President Donald Trump quickly turns to a fundamental shift in this relationship. On executive orders, Trump froze federal grants flowing to non -profit religious organizations; And the resettlement programs that were forbidden, most of which are run by religious organizations; Foreign aid was suspended while it was reviewed. The Trump administration has dismantled the USAID Agency (USAID), which is cooperating with a group of charities and religious societies.
Survey are angry at Trump
Trump faces great anger at the Christian ecclesiastical society in the United States of America after cutting this flow. For example, Beckman appealed to the former Lothari and Economic Priest at the World Bank: American evangelists, many of whom supported Trump saying: How can you go to the church and sit in the first row and support what Trump does and manage it with the poor and the weak? We have to gather, and put pressure on the members of Congress.
David Beckman also called on the honorary president of the BREAD FOR Thord Christian Victory, in his speech to Foreign Policy, Christians to work together for humanity.
For his part, Torik, a history professor at the University of Trinity in San Antonio, said that the Evangelists were less interested in helping structural issues and more committed to transformation and building Christian groups abroad.
“The vision of global relief leaders and other agencies describing this as a disaster and they say that this contradicts our religious mission or the lack of approval of the Trump administration while they are doing so. It is another thing that we see the ordinary evangelists praising Trump and considering Elon Musk a hero.”
