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发布于 2026年4月19日美国东部时间凌晨12:01
2024年10月22日，佛罗里达州迈阿密，时任共和党总统候选人唐纳德·特朗普在一场圆桌讨论中祈祷。
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唐纳德·特朗普总统本周将参与一场公开的圣经诵读活动，本届政府持续将宗教——尤其是基督教——融入官方事务。
组织者在一份新闻稿中表示：“4月21日，特朗普总统计划于美国东部时间下午6点通过视频讯息在椭圆形办公室诵读经文。”此次活动名为“美国诵读圣经”。
考虑到特朗普近期与教皇利奥就伊朗冲突爆发争执，以及本周早些时候他发布并删除一张将自己描绘成耶稣的AI生成图像引发的 backlash，他参与这场为期一周的诵读活动格外引人关注。
据组织者透露，在这段视频讯息中，特朗普将诵读《历代志下》7:11-22的段落，其中包含常被引用的第14节经文：“倘若我的民，就是称为我名下的子民，自卑自己，祷告，寻求我的面，转离他们的恶行，我必从天上垂听，赦免他们的罪，医治他们的地。”
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这节经文也曾因“特朗普牛仔”创始人考伊·格里芬在2021年1月6日美国国会山骚乱期间向人群祈祷而受到公众关注。
但据《基督教邮报》报道，特朗普与这节经文的渊源可以追溯到更早。2016年胜选后不久，比利·格雷厄姆的女儿、福音传道者安妮·格雷厄姆·洛茨就表示，这正应验了《历代志下》7:14的内容，象征上帝回应了其民众的祈祷。
协助组织此次活动的“参与基督徒”组织创始人兼主席邦尼·庞兹告诉福克斯新闻，他们“需要一位特别的人选来诵读《历代志》第七章”，并特意为特朗普预留了这一段经文。
雪城大学麦克斯韦尔学院历史与政治学教授玛格丽特·苏珊·汤普森告诉CNN，许多福音派基督徒将这节经文视为“呼吁上帝保佑本国的正当理由”。
特朗普政府近期在公共事务中频繁使用基督教相关表述，汤普森指出，此前从吉米·卡特总统到乔治·W·布什总统，美国领导人都曾将自己的宗教信仰融入塑造国家目标的理念中，但没有哪位在职公职领导人将个人信仰作为强制性要求。
“问题在于，当宗教教义被作为标准或强制要求推行给全体国民时，就会出现问题，”汤普森说道。
根据新闻稿，包括国务卿马可·卢比奥、国防部长皮特·赫格斯塞思和办公厅主任苏西·瓦尔斯在内的多名政府官员将出席此次诵读活动。
上周，特朗普卷入两起宗教相关事件，最初是与教皇利奥的争执，教皇曾公开反对针对伊朗的战争。
特朗普批评教皇称：“我们不喜欢那种说可以拥有核武器的教皇。”他还补充道：“我不是教皇利奥的粉丝。”
教皇随后回应称，他“并不畏惧特朗普政府”。
教皇利奥十四世在11天非洲牧灵访问的第六天，于4月18日周六与枢机主教和主教们一同列队抵达喀麦隆雅温得维尔机场举行弥撒。
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特朗普在发布一张将自己描绘成耶稣的AI图像后不得不为自己辩护，这一行为引发了其部分支持者的愤怒。
“我原本以为那是我以医生的形象，和红十字会有关，”他在西翼大楼外告诉记者，“那本该是我作为医生救治病人的样子。而我确实也在救治他人。”
自特朗普去年重新就职以来，本届政府一直在削弱政教分离的原则。
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白宫呼吁美国人每周祈祷一小时，官方政府社交媒体账号上出现过圣经经文和基督教意象，联邦机构也举办过祈祷仪式。
今年早些时候，赫格斯塞思——尤其热衷于将宗教注入五角大楼的官方事务，并时常引用经文——邀请了一名观点极具争议的牧师在五角大楼主持祈祷仪式。这名牧师道格拉斯·威尔逊主张废除妇女选举权，认为同性恋应当被定罪，并呼吁建立基督教神权政体。
在本周早些时候针对伊朗战争的五角大楼新闻发布会上，赫格斯塞思将记者比作法利赛人，称他们是“自封的当代精英”，质疑耶稣的“善意”。
Trump to read Bible verse from Oval Office after feud with Pope and deleted AI image
2026-04-19T04:01:55.059Z / CNN
By Kaanita Iyer, Aleena Fayaz
3 hr ago
PUBLISHED Apr 19, 2026, 12:01 AM ET
Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump prays during a roundtable discussion in Miami, Florida, on October 22, 2024.
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President Donald Trump will participate in a public Bible reading this week as the administration continues to integrate religion, particularly Christianity, into official business.
“On April 21, President Trump is scheduled to read Scripture via video message from the Oval Office during the 6 p.m. EST hour,” a press release from organizers reads. The event is called “America Reads The Bible.”
Trump’s participation in the weeklong reading is particularly notable given his recent feud with Pope Leo over the Iran conflict and the backlash he received earlier this week for posting – and then deleting – an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus.
In the video message, Trump, according to organizers, will read a passage from 2 Chronicles 7:11-22, which includes the frequently quoted verse 14: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
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The verse also gained public attention when the founder of “Cowboys for Trump,” Couy Griffin, prayed over the crowd at the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.
But Trump’s ties to the verse go back even further, according to the Christian Post. Soon after his 2016 victory, evangelist Anne Graham Lotz, Billy Graham’s daughter, said it was a sign that God was answering the prayer of his people, just like in 2 Chronicles 7:14.
Founder and president of Christians Engaged, Bunni Pounds, who helped organize the event, told Fox News that they “needed someone special to read Second Chronicles, chapter seven” and that they set aside the passage for Trump to read.
Margaret Susan Thompson, professor of history and political science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, told CNN the verse has been seen by many Evangelical Christians as a “justification of calling upon God to bless their nation.”
While the Trump administration has recently invoked Christian language in public affairs, Thompson noted that previously American leaders from former President Jimmy Carter to former President George W. Bush have integrated their religious convictions into a mindset that shapes their goals for the nation, but that individual public leaders have not made their faith a mandate.
“The problem is when it is prescribed for the entire nation as normative or as mandatory as a religious kind of doctrine,” Thompson said.
Many administration officials will join the president during the reading, according to the press release, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and chief of staff Susie Wiles.
Trump found himself at the center of two religious matters last week, which began with a feud with Pope Leo, who has spoken out against the war with Iran.
The president criticized the pope, telling reporters, “We don’t like a pope that’s going to say that it’s OK to have a nuclear weapon,” adding, “I’m not a fan of Pope Leo.”
The pope said in response that he has “no fear of the Trump administration.”
Pope Leo XIV arrives in procession with cardinals and bishops to celebrate Mass at Yaounde Ville Airport, Cameroon, on Saturday, April 18, on the sixth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa.
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The president then had to defend himself after posting an AI image of himself as Jesus, which drew the ire of some within his own base.
“I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with Red Cross,” he told reporters outside the West Wing. “It’s supposed to be me as a doctor making people better. And I do make people better.”
Since Trump returned to office last year, the administration has chipped away at the separation between church and state.
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The White House has asked Americans to pray for an hour a week, Bible verses and Christian imagery have appeared on official government social media accounts, and federal agencies have hosted prayer service.
Earlier this year, Hegseth – who has particularly sought to infuse religion into official Pentagon business and regularly evokes scripture – invited a pastor with controversial views to lead prayer service at the Pentagon. The pastor, Douglas Wilson, supports repealing women’s right to vote, believes homosexuality should be a crime and calls for Christian theocracy.
At a Pentagon briefing on the Iran war earlier this week, Hegseth compared reporters to Pharisees, “the self-appointed elites of their time” who doubted Jesus’ “goodness.”