Obama hosts first evangelical summit at White House [View All]

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By Sarah Pulliam Bailey | Religion News Service, Published: October 12

President Obama formally extended his ear to evangelicals ahead of the 2012 election, meeting with top leaders of the National Association of Evangelicals in the White House for about 30 minutes on Wednesday (Oct. 12).

International religious freedom was a top priority for the group as they thanked Obama for condemning the charges against Youcef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor facing execution for his conversion to Christianity.

George Wood, the general superintendent of the Assemblies of God, cited other cases of people who been persecuted in cases around the world.

“Someone commented that all these things relate to issues of religious freedom,” NAE President Leith Anderson said in an interview after the meeting. “He (Obama) did a lot of listening.”

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