US Vice President JD Vance promised the Trump administration would advocate for Christians and serve as the "biggest defenders of religious liberties" during Friday's National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Fox News reports.
"While you're certainly not always going to agree with everything that we do in President Trump's administration, I feel very confident in saying that between protecting the rights of pro-life protesters, between ensuring that we have an opportunity to protect the rights of the unborn in the first place, and importantly, protecting the religious liberty of all people, but in particular Catholics," Vance said.
"I think that we can say that President Trump, though not a Catholic himself, has been an incredibly good president for Catholics in the United States of America," said Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Feb. 6 to stand up the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, which seeks to end the "anti-Christian weaponization of government and unlawful conduct targeting Christians," according to the White House.
Members of Trump’s Cabinet and other key agencies are part of the task force, which will conduct a review of any "anti-Christian" policies, practices or conduct within the federal government.
A White House fact sheet on the executive order claimed the Biden administration engaged in "an egregious pattern" of targeting peaceful Christians, while turning a blind eye to "violent, anti-Christian offenses." Former President Joe Biden was the second Catholic president in the U.S., after President John F. Kennedy.
