Over 1,100 footnotes. Seventeen agencies. And a pattern that should trouble every believer.

On April 30, the Department of Justice published the report of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, and if you are a Christian who felt like the federal government was working against you during the Biden years, this document says you were not imagining things.

The report runs over 200 pages with more than 300 pages of exhibits. It draws on findings from 17 federal agencies. It catalogs what the DOJ describes as a systematic pattern of prosecutions, policies, and administrative decisions that burdened Christian belief and practice across American life.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche chaired the task force, and the Justice Department coordinated the interagency effort. They reviewed internal discussions, case files, and prosecutorial decisions. They met with or received information from more than 100 stakeholders and victims of religious discrimination.

The President’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the Federal Government released a report that revealed hundreds of alarming examples of government hostility towards Christians under the Biden Administration. One example is our Christians Engaged case from 2021.… pic.twitter.com/GtMlHGTdVX

— First Liberty Institute (@firstliberty_) May 8, 2026

First Liberty Institute, one of the most active religious liberty legal organizations in the country, pointed to the report’s findings as confirmation of what groups like theirs have been litigating for years. They cited their own Christians Engaged case from 2021, where the IRS initially denied tax-exempt status to a Christian civic prayer group, as one example among hundreds the report documents.

U.S. Department of Justice reported the core findings this way:

The Department of Justice announced that the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias published a report detailing how the Biden Administration’s prosecutions, policies, and practices demonstrated anti-Christian bias throughout the federal government, in accordance with Executive Order 14202. The 200-page report collects detailed findings of seventeen federal agencies on the Task Force, as well as other agencies that uncovered religious discrimination. The report examines how the Biden Administration pushed its policy agenda even when its actions infringed on Christian beliefs, free exercise, and matters including life, family, marriage, self-identity, education, medical decisions, and more. The report contains over 1,100 footnotes and over 300 pages of exhibits. The Justice Department conducted a review of internal discussions, case files, and prosecutorial decisions, including matters related to the FACE Act, and met with or received information from over 100 stakeholders and victims. The report addresses conscience rights, the Johnson Amendment, fines against Christian universities, girls sports, vaccine mandates, exclusion of Christians from public programs, and related issues at state and local levels and in the private sector.

Read that list again. Conscience rights. Fines against Christian universities. Vaccine mandates. Girls’ sports. Exclusion of Christians from public programs. The Johnson Amendment being weaponized against churches. These are not fringe complaints from a handful of activists. According to the task force, these were documented, footnoted patterns across the executive branch.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was one of the principal member departments contributing to the report. HHS described corrective actions already taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and made clear that the department’s posture on conscience rights has fundamentally changed.

HHS welcomed the release of the 2026 Report of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. The report describes how prior administration policies burdened the religious liberty and conscience rights of Christians and other Americans of faith, and details corrective actions HHS has already taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy said the administration is restoring a fundamental promise that Americans will never have to choose between their faith and their livelihood. HHS said federal policy had treated conscience rights as optional and that the department now enforces the law, protects religious liberty, and makes clear that people of faith have the same rights as every other American. HHS OCR Director Paula M. Stannard said the office is done treating conscience rights as second-class rights and is enforcing conscience protection laws, clearing out defective guidance, opening investigations where warranted, and giving public notice that HHS will take conscience and religious liberty seriously.

“Americans will never have to choose between their faith and their livelihood.” That is Secretary Kennedy’s framing, and it captures the stakes perfectly. Christian nurses, doctors, pharmacists, teachers, and small business owners spent years being told their convictions were a disqualifying liability. The task force report, according to DOJ and HHS, lays out the paper trail of how that happened at the federal level.

OCR Director Stannard’s language is equally direct. She said her office is “done treating conscience rights as second-class rights.” That kind of plain talk from a federal official is exactly what believers needed to hear after years of bureaucratic hostility.

Predictably, secular activist groups are not pleased.

FFRF Action Fund’s “Theocrat of the Week” is the Anti-Christian Bias Task Force for its sham report alleging that Christians were devastatingly persecuted under the Biden administration. https://t.co/DbWqfXnrw8 https://t.co/cavtdcFX9r pic.twitter.com/Ni39YF6j97

— FFRF Action Fund (@FFRFAction) May 9, 2026

The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s action arm called the report a “sham” and gave the entire task force its “Theocrat of the Week” award. That response tells you everything you need to know about where the secular left stands. Documenting anti-Christian bias is itself treated as an act of theocracy. If you are keeping score, simply asking the government to stop penalizing Christians for being Christians now qualifies as establishing a state religion in the eyes of groups like FFRF.

That framing is not serious, and most Americans see right through it.

Let me say the obvious thing. The existence of this report does not mean every finding in it is beyond debate. It is a government document produced by an administration with a point of view. But 17 agencies, 1,100 footnotes, 300 pages of exhibits, and testimony from over 100 stakeholders and victims is not nothing. It is the most comprehensive federal accounting of anti-Christian bias ever assembled, and the fact that it exists at all is a sea change from where things stood just a few years ago.

For years, Christians were told that religious liberty claims were really just cover for discrimination. That narrative was used to justify fining Christian schools, forcing Christian medical professionals to violate their consciences, denying tax-exempt status to prayer groups, and locking churches out of public programs available to everyone else. The task force report, according to the DOJ, puts receipts behind what millions of believers already knew from experience.

Scripture tells us in Galatians 5:1, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” The freedom to live and work according to your faith without federal punishment is not a radical demand. It is the baseline promise of the First Amendment.

This report should be read by every pastor, every Christian school administrator, and every believer who was made to feel like an outsider in their own country. The documentation matters because accountability starts with the record.

What do you think? Does this report reflect what you or your church experienced during the Biden years? Let us know in the comments.