What Christians need to know about Trump’s first week in office

Tim Wyatt looks back at all the key events of the past seven days, and offers some analysis of where faith has taken centre stage

As Donald Trump, the 47^th President of the United States of America, delivered his inaugural address, he cast his mind back a few months. At another podium in front of another adoring crowd, he narrowly escaped being shot to death by a few millimetres. “Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear,” Trump reminded the audience. “But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.”

From that moment – and indeed long before on the campaign trail and since Trump’s resounding election win in November – his second presidential term has been marked by Christianity. As in 2016, he won strong majorities of believers – claiming 59 per cent of the Catholic vote, 63 per cent of the Protestant and a massive 81 per cent of white evangelical vote, according to polls.