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Freedom 250 Event Highlights Christian-Nationalist Push, Sparks Protest

5/16/2026

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Speaker Mike Johnson said President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 will use a ceremony to promote a Christian-nationalist agenda.
Freedom 250’s day-long rededication will feature only evangelical or right-wing Christian speakers—Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Lorenzo Sewell and Lou Engle—omitting a previously mentioned rabbi.
Lou Engle’s guide “The Keys to Dominion” calls for Christians to rule over judges.
The Interfaith Alliance projected religious-freedom messages on the National Gallery of Art walls in protest.

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Speaker Mike Johnson said President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 will use a ceremony to promote a Christian-nationalist agenda.
Freedom 250’s day-long rededication will feature only evangelical or right-wing Christian speakers—Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Lorenzo Sewell and Lou Engle—omitting a previously mentioned rabbi.
Lou Engle’s guide “The Keys to Dominion” calls for Christians to rule over judges.
The Interfaith Alliance projected religious-freedom messages on the National Gallery of Art walls in protest.