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In message to evangelical base, Trump holds WH meeting with foreign victims of religious persecution
David Fahrenthold Retweeted“I don’t think any president has taken it as seriously as me,” Trump said of protecting religious freedoms abroad.
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In message to evangelical base, Trump holds White House meeting with foreign victims of religious persecution
By David Nakamura
July 17 at 6:09 PM
President Trump met Wednesday with a diverse group of more than two dozen foreigners who have faced religious persecution in their home countries, including a Uighur Muslim from China, where up to a million members of the ethnic minority group reportedly have been jailed.
The meeting, which was not listed on Trump’s public schedule, also included a member of the Rohingya Muslim group in Myanmar, a Tibetan from China, a Jewish Holocaust survivor and a member of the Yazidi, a Kurdish ethnic group in Iraq, as well as Christians from North Korea, Iran and other nations.
“In America we’ve always understood that our rights come from God, not from government,” Trump told the group in the Oval Office, where they were joined by White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and Sam Brownback, the administration’s ambassador at large for international religious freedom.
“I don’t think any president has taken it as seriously as me,” Trump said of protecting religious freedoms abroad, even though the White House has faced increasing calls from Congress and human rights groups to penalize Beijing for abuses of Uighurs.
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David Nakamura covers the White House. He has previously covered sports, education and city government and reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Japan. Follow https://twitter.com/davidnakamura
In message to evangelical base, Trump holds White House meeting with foreign victims of religious persecution
By David Nakamura
July 17 at 6:09 PM
President Trump met Wednesday with a diverse group of more than two dozen foreigners who have faced religious persecution in their home countries, including a Uighur Muslim from China, where up to a million members of the ethnic minority group reportedly have been jailed.
The meeting, which was not listed on Trump’s public schedule, also included a member of the Rohingya Muslim group in Myanmar, a Tibetan from China, a Jewish Holocaust survivor and a member of the Yazidi, a Kurdish ethnic group in Iraq, as well as Christians from North Korea, Iran and other nations.
“In America we’ve always understood that our rights come from God, not from government,” Trump told the group in the Oval Office, where they were joined by White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and Sam Brownback, the administration’s ambassador at large for international religious freedom.
“I don’t think any president has taken it as seriously as me,” Trump said of protecting religious freedoms abroad, even though the White House has faced increasing calls from Congress and human rights groups to penalize Beijing for abuses of Uighurs.
....
David Nakamura covers the White House. He has previously covered sports, education and city government and reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Japan. Follow https://twitter.com/davidnakamura
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