The Trump administration has welcomed, listened to, and defended faith communities like no other White House has before. //

Mark Green
@USAIDMarkGreen
Mark Green is the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID.

For Americans, religious liberty is in our DNA. The pursuit of that freedom is what brought the Pilgrims to our shores nearly 400 years ago.

Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, believed so strongly in religious liberty that he authored Virginia’s Statute for Religious Freedom, and when it became law, he called for it to be translated into multiple languages and widely distributed.

We see that same spirit in the appearance of religious freedom in the very first line of our Constitution’s Bill of Rights—perhaps because our Founding Fathers saw religious liberty as giving meaning to all of our other freedoms.

That’s why the Trump administration has welcomed, listened to, and defended faith communities like no other White House has before. //

President Abraham Lincoln once said that he felt sorry for the man who can’t feel the whip when it is laid on another man’s back.

Thanks to President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, the U.S. Agency for International Development and others are working to offer relief and assistance to those who have suffered so much