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Make religious freedom part of all development programs

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 9, p. 262. Written by Max Primorac.

Make religious freedom part of all development programs

The document says “must”Who acts: USAID, CongressHow: internal managementp. 262 in the PDF
What the document says

“The next conservative Administration must champion the core American value of religious freedom”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 262

The chapter says religious freedom correlates significantly with poverty reduction, economic growth and peace. It asks that all staff be trained on that connection, that it be integrated into all programs including the five-year country strategies due for update in 2025, that missions strengthen ties with local faith leaders, and that Congress appropriate funding specifically to support persecuted religious minorities.

What the document actually says

“The next conservative Administration must champion the core American value of religious freedom”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 262
That sentence, in plain words

The next team must stand up for religious freedom. It is a core American value.

What this is about

Religious freedom means people can follow any faith. The book says it helps countries grow richer. It wants that built into every aid program.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14202, signed February 6, 2025, sets up a task force on anti-Christian bias inside the federal government and directs agencies to identify and correct their own conduct. It is about the treatment of Americans by their government, not about development programs abroad. Nothing indexed integrates religious freedom into aid programming, staff training or the five-year country strategies, and nothing appropriates funding to support persecuted communities. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 262.
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    “Make religious freedom part of all development programs,” Project 2025, chapter 9, p. 262. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch09-religious-freedom-in-development/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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