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Conservative religious leaders praised the actions of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson in April 2024 after he helped pass foreign aid packages, Church Leaders reported.
Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission president Brent Leatherwood was one of many lobbying Johnson on behalf of Ukraine, urging him to support Baptists living in the war-torn nation. (TAKE A POLL: What Is the Most Pressing Political Issue Facing Our Country Today?)
“That is why we asked Speaker Johnson and congressional leaders to come together to meet the challenges of this moment,” Leatherwood said at the time. “In the House passage of bills relating to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, the Speaker sent a strong message to autocrats and terrorists alike that our nation will take a stand to support vulnerable lives and oppose the tyrants who threaten them.”
Why Christians Are Concerned
“We are pained and shocked by the widespread, vicious persecution of our brothers and sisters in Ukraine by Russian forces,” Defenders of Faith and Religious Freedom in Ukraine president Gary Marx said in a letter to Johnson. “Russia is waging a war against Evangelical and Protestant Christians at a scale likened to ‘cultural genocide.’ These Christians are being persecuted, harassed, intimidated, imprisoned, tortured, mutilated, and killed — simply for worshipping God as they see fit.” (TAKE A POLL: Do You Attend Weekly Religious Services?)
“The enemies of America are watching and waiting to see what America does, and we should do everything in our power to have Israel’s back,” Christians United for Israel Action Fund chair Sandra Hagee Parker said of the situation.
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