Push by evangelicals helped set stage for Trump decision on Jerusalem
WASHINGTON - An intense and sustained push by US evangelicals helped drive President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and eventually relocate the US embassy there, activists said on Wednesday.
While Trump had long pledged to move the embassy, the Republican president's conservative Christian advisers repeatedly pressed the case in regular meetings at the White House, the conservative activists said.
"I have no doubt that evangelicals played a meaningful role in this decision," said Johnnie Moore, a California pastor who serves as a spokesman for a council of leading evangelicals that advises the White House. "I don't believe it would have happened without them."
