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Christian evangelist and missionary, son of Billy Graham
Franklin Graham and like-minded evangelical leaders endorsed Donald Trump through high‑visibility public prayers, appearances at rallies and the Republican National Convention, and repeated public pra...
Barack Obama said variations of the line that the United States is not (or “no longer” or “not just”) a solely Christian nation in at least two well-documented settings: as a U.S. senator on June 28, ...
Major evangelical figures who publicly backed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 — and who resurfaced as visible supporters in 2024 — include high-profile pastors, televangelists and faith advisers such as...
President Donald Trump did not place his left hand on the Bibles held by First Lady Melania Trump while reciting the presidential oath at his January 20, 2025 inauguration, a detail captured in photos...
Franklin Graham’s vocal pro‑Trump posture has produced a clear split in the evangelical world: some leaders and conservative networks have embraced or defended him as a necessary political ally, while...
Members of the Trump family have used religious affiliation both as personal identity markers and as political tools: Donald Trump has long presented himself as a Christian (variously Presbyterian, no...
Franklin Graham has publicly praised Charlie Kirk following Kirk’s assassination, calling him a man of deep faith who defended conservative values and free speech; however, the available reporting doe...
A broad cohort of high-profile evangelical leaders publicly endorsed or allied with beginning in 2016 — names frequently cited include , , , , , , , , , , and others who served on his faith advisory b...
and the organizations he leads— and —have moved from the private, pastor-to-politician influence that characterized his father’s era toward far more public, overt political engagement: explicit praise...
’s December 2019 editorial calling for ’s removal crystallized a public rupture inside American ism by turning institutional moral critique into a lightning rod for intra-evangelical conflict . The pi...
Modern self-described prophets have repeatedly intersected with politics in the United States and beyond, sometimes nudging rallies and policy conversations and, in extreme cases, catalyzing violence;...
Prominent evangelical figures who backed Donald Trump in 2016 and again in 2020 included Robert Jeffress, Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr. (early ally), Paula White‑Cain and other high‑profile pasto...
David Jeremiah is repeatedly present among evangelical leaders who engaged with Donald Trump in 2016 but is documented more as a participant in advisory or faith-focused events than as a frontline pol...
Franklin Graham publicly framed Charlie Kirk’s memorial as a moment when and celebrated the Gospel being shared at the service, while other reviewed materials either repeat praise for Kirk’s faith and...
: multiple Christian leaders publicly endorsed ’s 2020 re‑election bid — a mix of high‑profile evangelical pastors and televangelists actively campaigned for him while broader white evangelical voters...
Since evangelical leadership endorsements have shifted from being perceived as to functioning more as signaling devices within a broader, base-driven primary, with elite endorsements sometimes followi...
Yes. Multiple prominent evangelical leaders publicly refused to endorse or later withdrew support for Donald Trump between 2016 and 2024 — including high-profile figures such as Russell Moore and Jame...
Major evangelical figures who publicly endorsed Donald Trump in 2016 include Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., televangelist Paula White and pastor Robert Jeffress; many of those figures...
Franklin Graham has not been documented in these sources as making any direct public statements about Jonathan Roumie or similar Christian entertainers; the available materials instead show Graham com...
Jonathan Roumie’s public statements in the available reporting emphasize that , and none of the supplied documents show him directly responding to criticism from Franklin Graham about his faith. The t...