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February 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Early this morning, President Donald J. Trump announced U.S. military air strikes on Iran—an act of war against a nation of 93 million people. This is morally and religiously indefensible: Trump’s military action circumvents the war powers of Congress, risks enormous financial costs, and most alarmingly, threatens lives.
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“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 organization Sojourners.
More specifically, the 2026 protest occurred the day before Palm Sunday, the day Jesus entered Jerusalem riding a donkey as peopled pleaded for him to take power and topple the Roman occupiers, Sojourners President Adam Russell Taylor observed. “But we know Jesus didn’t come to be a king. Instead, he came to establish the kingdom of God, which is rooted in a commitment to justice, righteousness and steadfast love.”
“We thought it was important to tie into a season where many Christians go deeper into their faith,” said Adam Russell Taylor, president of Sojourners, a Christian social justice organization. “Part of what we’re critiquing is the way in which many White evangelical Christians succumb to an unconditional support of the administration, despite the fact that its actions are completely antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.”
Sojourners' board member Rev. Cynthia Hale: "People look at it as just a democratic crisis, but it's not. It's a crisis of faith."
Leaders from Sojourners, Faith in Action, the Georgetown Center on Faith and Justice, the National Council of Churches and the Latino Christian National Network held a separate vigil outside the White House “to issue a moral call to repentance, love, and courageous action in a time of deep crisis for both faith and democracy.”
A group of nearly 400 prominent Christian leaders called President Donald Trump’s administration “cruel and oppressive” and accused the government of being corrupted by an aberrant form of Christianity, in an Ash Wednesday (Feb. 18) statement.
The signers also include several longtime faith-based activists, such as Bishop Dwayne Royster of Faith in Action, Pastor Shane Claiborne of Red Letter Christians, the Rev. Adam Russell Taylor of Sojourners and the Rev. Jim Wallis of Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice.