President Trump signed an executive order Thursday establishing a task force with a goal to “eradicate anti-Christian bias.”

Mr. Trump first made the announcement of the task force’s creation at the second National Prayer Breakfast of the day that he attended, at the Washington Hilton. He said newly sworn-in Attorney General Pam Bondi will head the task force.

“While I’m in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools and our military and our government, workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares,” he said. “We will bring our country back together as one nation under God with liberty and justice for all.”

According to the White House, the task force will be made up of members of Mr. Trump’s Cabinet and key government agencies.

The group will review the activities of all governmental departments and agencies “to identify and eliminate anti-Christian policies, practices or conduct.”

It will also recommend any legislation that is needed to protect Christian Americans.

“The mission of this task force will be to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ — which was absolutely terrible — the IRS, the FBI and other agencies,” he said.

The order says the task force must submit a report of its initial work within 120 days, another report within a year, and a final report when the task force is dissolved, which will be in two years.

The document also slammed the Biden administration for engaging “in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses,” citing pro-life activists who were charged with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and jailed.

Mr. Trump pardoned those individuals last month.

The order also cited the Biden Justice Department ignoring calls for justice from churches, charities and pro-life individuals for the violence against them, the 2023 FBI memorandum that said “’radical-traditionalist’ Catholics were domestic-terrorism threats,” and the Biden Education Department repealing protections for faith-based organizations on college campuses, among other actions taken by the Biden administration.

“My administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians,” the order said. “The law protects the freedom of Americans and groups of Americans to practice their faith in peace, and my administration will enforce the law and protect these freedoms.”

At the breakfast Thursday, the president also announced the creation of a freedom of religion commission.

“I will be creating a brand new presidential commission on religious liberty. It’s going to be a very big deal, which will work tirelessly to uphold this most fundamental right. Unfortunately, in recent years, we’ve seen this sacred liberty threatened like never before in American history,” he said.

The White House Faith Office from his first term will also be reinstated and led by the televangelist Paula White. She chaired the evangelical advisory board during Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and delivered the invocation at his 2017 inauguration.

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.