Amid the latest bogus scandal the mainstreams are obsessing over, it’s amazing the way the president just calmly goes about the business of governing the country, pretty much brushing off the Left’s hysterics for the melodramas they are.
With young Greta Thunberg in town to speak at the U.N., the extreme greens were all set for a big climate change showdown. On Monday, Thunberg spoke at the United Nations Climate Action Summit (during which the teenaged climate activist’s indoctrination was sadly evident), scolding the delegates for destroying the planet and ruining her life.
President Trump skipped Greta’s emotional remarks, and only spent about 15 minutes at the climate summit, listening to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi address the group. He had a much more critical U.N. session to attend. On a issue where human lives really are in peril ~ At UN, Trump focuses on religious freedom, not climate ~
UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump was addressing a conference for world leaders at the United Nations, but he was talking to his political base Monday as he breezed by a major climate change summit and focused instead on religious persecution, an issue that resonates with evangelical supporters who want to see him reelected next year.
The climate summit was a centerpiece of this year’s U.N. schedule. It was not on Trump’s schedule but he stopped by for about 15 minutes to observe. As he left, he said: “I’m a big believer in clean air and clean water and all countries should get together and do that, and they should do it for themselves. Very, very important.”
His main event, though, was a U.N. meeting on religious persecution. Trump said it was an “urgent moral duty” for world leaders to stop crimes against faith, release prisoners of conscience and repeal laws restricting religious liberty.
“Approximately 80 percent of the world’s population live in countries where religious liberty is threatened, restricted or even banned,” Trump said, adding that when he first heard the statistic, he didn’t believe it and asked for it to be double-checked.
Considering the worldwide Christian genocide that’s been occurring over the last decade or so, it’s just shameful that this was the first time that the U.N. actually got around to holding a summit on international religious liberty.
In a “Global Call to Protect Religious Freedom” the president affirmed America’s commitment to this important cause ~
(He) announced that the United States would dedicate “$25 million to protect religious freedom, religious sites, and relics,” and would be forming “a coalition of U.S. businesses for the protection of religious freedom” in the workplace […]
“Today, with one clear voice, the United States of America calls upon the nations of the world to end religious persecution. Stop the crimes against people of faith,” Trump said, before calling on “the governments of the world to honor the eternal right of every person to follow their conscience, live by their faith, and give glory to God.”
Amen.
And thank-you Mr. President.
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Donald Trump’s Finest Hour ~ Rob Schwarzwalder summarizes the president’s most excellent speech, as well as its significance ~
“The United States,” he explained, “is founded on the principle that our rights do not come from government; they come from God. This immortal truth is proclaimed in our Declaration of Independence. … Our Founders understood that no right is more fundamental to a peaceful, prosperous, and virtuous society than the right to follow one’s religious convictions.”
We can be grateful that an American President had the courage to say this not only to the many brutal regimes represented in the UN assembly hall. But also to Americans who believe our rights come from the government. Or the majority of voters […]
“As we speak,” the president said, “Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Yazidis, and many other people of faith are being jailed, sanctioned, tortured, and even murdered, often at the hands of their own government, simply for expressing their deeply held religious beliefs.”
Just this week, a medical student in Alexandria, Egypt was attacked with bricks as she left a church. Not only was Marina Sami Rageb proclaiming her Christian faith by attending church, she was not wearing a headscarf. For this, her attackers fractured her skull. Her brain is bleeding.
Last year, half a world away in India, five Christian women who were sharing the Gospel through in their performance of a street play were suddenly abducted. Dragged into a local forest, they were gang raped. Police reports say these horrors were captured on cell phones.
Trump slams world leaders for religious freedom hypocrisy, commits $25M to the cause at UN summit
