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Rededicate 250: Rededicate our nation back to God’: Trump-backed prayer rally delivers for true believers Open accessibility guide Skip to sections navigation Skip to content Skip to footer Log in Our network Log in Expand navigation menu Search Advertisement World North America Trump's America ‘Rededicate our nation back to God’: Trump-backed prayer rally delivers for true believers Tiffany Stanley May 18, 2026 — 6:30pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Share A A A Washington: Thousands of people streamed onto the National Mall for a daylong prayer rally Sunday billed as a “rededication of our country as One Nation under God”. Against the backdrop of the Washington Monument, worship music blared from a stage that

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Rededicate 250: Rededicate our nation back to God’: Trump-backed prayer rally delivers for true believers Open accessibility guide Skip to sections navigation Skip to content Skip to footer Log in Our network Log in Expand navigation menu Search Advertisement World North America Trump's America ‘Rededicate our nation back to God’: Trump-backed prayer rally delivers for true believers Tiffany Stanley May 18, 2026 — 6:30pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Share A A A Washington: Thousands of people streamed onto the National Mall for a daylong prayer rally Sunday billed as a “rededication of our country as One Nation under God”. Against the backdrop of the Washington Monument, worship music blared from a stage that made clear the event’s Christian focus. Arched stained-glass windows, set underneath grand columns resembling a federal building, depicted the nation’s founders alongside a white cross. Most speakers celebrated Christianity’s ties to American history, a blending of ideas that critics flagged ahead of the prayer gathering as supporting Christian nationalism. A person worships as a recorded video message from President Donald Trump plays at Rededicate 250. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson President Donald Trump read a passage of Scripture in a video shown at the rally. Filmed in the Oval Office, it was the same footage used during a marathon Bible-reading event last month. The verses from 2 Chronicles are often cited by those who believe America was founded as a Christian nation. Advertisement “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways,” Trump read, “then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks on screen during the Rededicate 250 event. AP Photo/Rod Lamkey Other top Republicans, including Vice President JD Vance, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., were also on the schedule as part of the celebrations this year marking 250 years of US independence. Many names on the Rededicate 250 program were among Trump’s long-time evangelical supporters, including Paula White-Cain of the White House Faith Office and evangelist Franklin Graham of Samaritan’s Purse. “We are deeply concerned that what is really being rededicated is a nation to a very narrow and ideological part of the Christian faith that betrays our nation’s fundamental commitment to religious freedom,” said the Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, a Baptist minister who leads the progressive Christian organisation Sojourners. Advertisement The conservative Christian line-up featured guests who often argue that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, a narrative disputed by many historians and other religious traditions. Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, director of the Religious Action Cente

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