JD Vance: US ‘foreign misadventures’ led to ‘eradication’ of historic Christian communities
March 3, 2025
Vice President J.D. Vance told attendees at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Friday that “foreign misadventures” have led to “the eradication of historical Christian communities” globally.
The Christian Post reports that the Vice President spoke to more than 1,000 people who attended the prayer breakfast at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Vance told the crowd that President Trump’s foreign policy was “most in accord with Christian social teaching and with the Catholic faith,” and stated, “More than any president of my lifetime, President Trump has pursued a path of peace.”
The Vice President pointed to Christians being the most persecuted religious group throughout the world and lamented, “In the United States of America sometimes, it is our foreign misadventures that lead to the eradication of historical Christian communities all over the world.”
Vance added, “When President Trump talks about the need to bring peace, whether it’s in Russia and Ukraine, whether it’s in the Middle East, we, of course, have to recognize that as a policy-oriented towards saving lives and carrying out one of Christ’s most important commandments.”
Noting that historical Christian communities throughout the world have borne the brunt of failed American foreign policy, Vance said, “That is, in my view, perhaps the most important way in which Donald Trump has been a defender of Christian rights all over the world is he has a foreign policy that is oriented towards peace.”
According to the Christian Post, Vance projected confidence that the Trump administration would end up producing prosperity but warned, “that prosperity is a means to an end, and that end is the flourishing, hopefully, of the life of every single citizen in the United States of America.”
The Vice President concluded his remarks with a prayer and well wishes for Pope Francis who has been hospitalized for the past two weeks.
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