Evangelical leaders rally for Trump and Israel as Operation Epic Fury reshapes the region

Despite efforts to displacement evangelical Christian enactment distant from Israel, immoderate of the astir influential leaders accidental the assemblage has stood firmly by the Jewish authorities since the commencement of the associated U.S.-Israel cognition against Iran.

As Wednesday's ceasefire took effect, Dr. Mike Evans, laminitis of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center successful Jerusalem and a adjacent evangelical state of President Donald Trump, reflected connected the war. Evans flew to Israel connected Feb. 26 arsenic tensions escalated up of the operation.

During his visit, Evans toured interaction sites caused by force missiles, met wounded civilians and Holocaust survivors, and provided $50,000 successful fiscal assistance to a bereaved family.

"I knew the warfare would start, truthful I flew to the area. I person been successful 41 wars. I spell determination intentionally erstwhile radical are hurting to assistance them," Evans told Fox News Digital.

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Rescue workers and subject unit transportation a assemblage of a unfortunate from the country wherever respective radical were killed by an Iranian rocket onslaught successful Beit Shemesh, Israel Sunday, March 1, 2026.  (Leo Correa/AP Photo)

On March 1, an Iranian rocket struck the metropolis of Beit Shemesh, adjacent Jerusalem, sidesplitting 9 people. Evans arrived astatine the country with archetypal responders soon aft the strike. He aboriginal visited Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital, wherever helium met Pnina Cohen, who was injured and mislaid some her hubby and mother-in-law successful the attack.

"I person been doing this for fractional a century. This is my life—combating antisemitism and helping the Jewish people," Evans said. 

Operation Epic Fury, the associated U.S.-Israeli subject run [named Roaring Lion successful Israel], began connected Feb. 28, with the stated extremity of "obliterating Iran’s ballistic rocket arsenal and accumulation capacity," weakening its subject infrastructure and preventing it from acquiring atomic weapons, according to a White House briefing. The archetypal time of the cognition was marked by the sidesplitting of Iran’s ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Leading Evangelical figures impulse President Trump to proceed backing Israel. (Graham; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images, Mike Evans;Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

According to Israel's Ministry of Health connected Tuesday, since the opening of the war, 7,183 radical person been evacuated to hospitals, of whom 118 are presently hospitalized.

Evans described the U.S.-Israel concern arsenic unprecedented. "No 1 could person imagined an American president partnering truthful intimately with Israel against extremist Islam," helium said, calling the run "historic."

He said evangelical enactment for Israel is rooted successful spiritual belief. "The Bible is simply a Jewish book, and evangelicals judge successful a Jewish person, Jesus," helium said. "They spot Israel arsenic the biblical onshore and judge God keeps his promises."

The Evangelical Christian community, which numbers astir 52 cardinal radical successful the United States, supported Trump’s presidency connected the information that helium would backmost Israel, Evans said.

Beyond governmental backing, Evans said evangelicals are progressive online. "We’ve had 127 cardinal views connected societal media successful the past 8 weeks," helium said. "We are warring misinformation and antisemitism due to the fact that lies tin outgo lives."

He emphasized that enactment is besides practical. "We don’t conscionable connection prayers — we supply fiscal assistance to those who mislaid homes and possessions."

President Donald Trump bids farewell to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arsenic helium leaves the White House aft a gathering connected April 7, 2025 successful Washington, DC.  (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Evans acknowledged that a information of younger evangelicals has shifted distant from accepted enactment for Israel. "A conception has been influenced by universities and online voices," helium said, estimating that astir 22% to 23% person shifted. "We are moving to scope them and I judge we can."

American Pastor John Hagee, the laminitis and president of the Christian Zionist organization Christians United for Israel, told Fox News Digital that the evangelical assemblage supports Trump’s determination to question the extremity of Iran’s menacing and murderous behavior.

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"We volition beryllium backing his petition to Congress to money this effort, and we volition guarantee our elected officials correspond the volition and morality of the American radical by seeing this righteous endeavor to its righteous end," helium said. 

Hagee said that "as Americans, we person a close to support ourselves against the Islamic Republic’s half-century of terror. As Christians, we are mandated to support ourselves against evil, to basal with the oppressed against the same, and to basal with the Children of Israel astatine each times." 

People instrumentality structure arsenic Iran launched missiles and drones towards Israel pursuing the US-Israeli attacks. ( Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"Evangelical Christians who’ve been raised successful the religion and are biblically literate are Christian Zionists," helium said.

"The emergence of antisemitism connected the 'woke right' is not a merchandise of evangelical churches, but alternatively a merchandise of the mendacious doctrine of Replacement Theology, repurposed and utilized arsenic clickbait," helium continued. 

Any pastor oregon priest, person oregon podcaster, who charges that the modern Children of Israel are thing different than the nonstop descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the beneficiaries of God’s unbreakable Covenant with Israel, Hagee said, is not preaching the connection of God.

"Operation Epic Fury is making the satellite a safer and amended spot for each its inhabitants; enactment the course, Mr. President," helium said.

An Israeli combatant pitchy takes disconnected for strikes successful Tehran. (IDF)

Franklin Graham, President and CEO of Samaritan's Purse, an international, evangelical Christian catastrophe alleviation organization, said that Iran has vowed to hitch the State of Israel disconnected the look of the earth, and with atomic weapons, they could. 

"If President Trump had not stopped them, this is thing this fanatical Islamic authorities mightiness person done wrong the adjacent fewer months," helium said. 

"My connection to the American radical would beryllium to retrieve Israel is the lone genuinely antiauthoritarian federation successful the Middle East — the lone one. And they person been our nation’s closest state successful the region. I impulse Americans to 'pray for the bid of Jerusalem' arsenic the Bible instructs us," helium continued.

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Graham said Trump stood with Israel successful a mode nary different American president did successful the past.  

"We’ve ne'er had a president similar President Trump successful my lifetime. If helium says he’s going to bash something, he’ll bash it. He warned Iran that if it continued to make atomic weapons, the U.S. would intervene, and that’s precisely what helium did."