US Government Coerced Faith Leaders to Push COVID-19 Vaccines, by Jim Thorp, Maggie Thorp

By Jim Thorp, Maggie Thorp, America Out Loud News, March 12, 2024

What if I told you powerful U.S. government officials – such as former NIH Director Francis Collins and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy – used religion in an attempt to convince faith leaders around the country to push the COVID-19 injections? A deep dive into the organization Faiths4Vaccines –a founding member of the HHS’ vaccine-propaganda machine COVID-19 Community Corps¹ –has revealed just that.

That the HHS was tapping faith leaders in the spring of 2021 to push the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines was not a surprise. We uncovered this in our previous article that we broke on the COVID-19 Community Corps at the end of 2022.² But what did surprise us as we dug deeper for this article was the extent to which faith leaders were pursued to push the COVID-19 vaccines and the inappropriate – if not unconstitutional – manner in which government officials persuaded these faith leaders to push the shots.

With 86 founding members, the “faith leaders” category of the COVID-19 Community Corps was the most numerous.³ These founding members included both individual faith leaders and faith organizations from a variety of religions – including the American Baptist Church, Catholic Charities USA, the Episcopal Church, the National Association of Evangelicals, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and the New York Jewish Agenda, just to name a few.⁴

NOTE: The Catholic individuals and organizations included in the list of 86 founding members included:

• Archbishop Vicken Aykazian
• Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities
• Catholic Charities USA
• Catholic Health Association
• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
• Fr. Sr. Rob Nemkovich
• Franciscan Action Network

Not surprisingly, many faith organizations received federal money during the pandemic. For example, an entity called “American Baptist Churches in the USA” reportedly received $1.5 million in COVID-19 relief bailout money – in the form of two forgivable “loans” that spanned 2020 and 2021.⁵ In their defense, the country was shut down for much of 2020, which left faith organizations, some of whom rely on member donations to pay day-to-day costs, facing financial disaster.

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