Mainstream US religious leaders criticise Trump after church photo

Protestant and Catholic leaders condemn US president's photo op and his administration's treatment of demonstrators.

Mainstream US Protestant and Catholic leaders sharply criticised President Donald Trump on Tuesday, a day after peaceful protesters were forcibly displaced for a staged presidential photo in front of a church near the White House.

Trump won the 2016 presidential election with strong support from white Catholics and evangelical Christians. Just months ahead of the November elections, when he hopes to win a second term, Trump has been trying to appeal to those voters with the photo in front of the Episcopal church, a visit Tuesday to a shrine to Pope John Paul II, and an executive order directing US agencies to "protect" religious freedom overseas.

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