In an op-ed in the Washington Post in January 2017, Daniel Williams, author of Forsaken: The Persecution of Christians in Today’s Middle East, called Middle Eastern Christians “Trump’s pawns.”

Yet Trump’s actions, so far, have involved putting the genies of Bush and Obama back in the bottle.
Tens of thousands of Pentecostal Christians in Mbarara, Uganda take to the streets with songs of praise and thanks to hold a common celebration seen as a way of dedicating people’s lives to Christ and preaching the gospel across the entire district.