Trump teases Education Department guidance on prayer in public schools

President Donald Trump on Monday said the Education Department would be issuing guidance shortly on praying in public school as part of his effort to promote religious liberty in the United States.

Trump made the announcement during a speech at the Museum of the Bible, and ahead of the Justice Department's Religious Liberty Commission meeting. 

"I am pleased to announce this morning that the Department of Education will soon issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer in our public schools, and its total protection," Trump said.

He did not go into detail on what the guidance would include or when exactly the guidance would be released, but said it would benefit students like Hannah Allen, who was forced to pray in a separate room, behind a curtain or outside in 2018 after she was caught praying for an injured student in a school cafeteria in Honey Grove, Texas.

Trump said it was "ridiculous" that students in classrooms today are "indoctrinated with anti-religious propaganda, and some are even punished for their religious beliefs," per CBS News.

"When faith gets weaker, our country seems to get weaker," the president said. "When faith gets stronger, as it is right now, we're having a very good period of time after some rough years, good things happen for our country. It's amazing the way it seems to work that way. [Americans] have to bring back religion in America, bring it back stronger than ever before."

Trump created the Religious Liberty Commission during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House in May. The Trump administration also released a memo in July on the rights of federal employees to express their religious views to their coworkers.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.