Trump Names Christian Pro-Israel Activist To Religious Freedoms Commission
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump named Gary Bauer, the Washington director of Christians United for Israel, to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
“We have seen a disturbing rise in anti-Semitism and persecution of Christians around the world, but especially in the Middle East,” Bauer, a veteran of top Education Department posts in the Reagan administration, said in a CUFI release on Thursday. “We must confront these two threats. Through this post, I will work to ensure the President and Congress are provided real policy options for contending with religious persecution in the world.”
The commission is an independent body that tracks religious freedoms overseas.
In a tweet, Bauer said his “focus” in the post “will be on the growing persecution of Christians and the rising tide of anti-Semitic hatred around the world. Muslim majority nations are biggest culprits.”
Pres. Trump has appointed me to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom! I am honored and humbled. My focus will be on the growing persecution of Christians and the rising tide of anti Semitic hatred around the world. Muslim majority nations are biggest culprits.
— Gary L Bauer (@GaryLBauer) May 31, 2018
Contact Alyssa Fisher at [email protected] or on Twitter, @alyssalfisher
Why I became the Forward’s editor-in-chief
You are surely a friend of the Forward if you’re reading this. And so it’s with excitement and awe — of all that the Forward is, was, and will be — that I introduce myself to you as the Forward’s newest editor-in-chief.
And what a time to step into the leadership of this storied Jewish institution! For 129 years, the Forward has shaped and told the American Jewish story. I’m stepping in at an intense time for Jews the world over. We urgently need the Forward’s courageous, unflinching journalism — not only as a source of reliable information, but to provide inspiration, healing and hope.
, editor-in-chiefSupport our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
