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Thousands of people streamed onto the National Mall for a daylong prayer rally Sunday billed as a \u201crededication of our country as One Nation under God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more WATCH: The truth about faith and America\u2019s founding<\/a><\/p>\n

Against the backdrop of the Washington Monument, worship music blared from a stage that made clear the event\u2019s Christian focus. Arched stained-glass windows, set underneath grand columns resembling a federal building, depicted the nation\u2019s founders alongside a white cross.<\/p>\n

President Trump was expected to address the gathering, which got underway as a light rain fell, in a video message. Other top Republicans, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana were also on the schedule as part of the celebrations this year marking 250 years of U.S. independence.<\/p>\n

Only one name on the Rededicate 250 program was not Christian. Most were among Mr. Trump\u2019s longtime evangelical supporters, including Paula White-Cain of the White House Faith Office and evangelist Franklin Graham of Samaritan\u2019s Purse.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are deeply concerned that what is really being rededicated is a nation to a very narrow and ideological part of the Christian faith that betrays our nation\u2019s fundamental commitment to religious freedom,\u201d said the Rev. Adam Russell Taylor, a Baptist minister who leads the progressive Christian organization Sojourners.<\/p>\n

The conservative Christian lineup featured guests who often argue that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, a narrative disputed by many historians and other religious traditions.<\/p>\n\n

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Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, noted the religious diversity of early America, including Jews, Muslims and Indigenous people. \u201cI want to shine a light on America\u2019s history as a nation that welcomes, celebrates, and protects people of all faiths and those of no faith,\u201d Rabbi Pesner said.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Hegseth has infused Christian language and worship with his role leading the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur founders knew two simple truths,\u201d Mr. Hegseth said in a promotional video for the event. \u201cOur rights don\u2019t come from government; they come from God. And a nation is only as strong as its faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Meir Soloveichik was the only non-Christian religious leader listed on the program. He serves on the Trump administration\u2019s Religious Liberty Commission along with Ms. White-Cain, Mr. Graham and Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Bishop Robert Barron, Catholic clerics also featured on the program.<\/p>\n

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The event was organized by Freedom 250, a public-private partnership backed by the White House. Congressional Democrats have questioned the nonprofit\u2019s structure and finances, which they see as a Trump-controlled end run around a separate commission charted by Congress a decade ago to prepare semiquincentennial events.<\/p>\n

Progressive groups planned counterprogramming. Among them were the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which advocates a strict separation of church and state, and the Christian group Faithful America.<\/p>\n

On Thursday evening, the Interfaith Alliance projected protest slogans onto an exterior wall of the National Gallery of Art. \u201cDemocracy not theocracy,\u201d said one. Another said: \u201cThe separation of church and state is good for both.\u201d<\/p>\n

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