白宫
华盛顿特区
2022年1月14日
2022年宗教自由日
美利坚合众国总统公告

自我国建国初期以来，来自世界各地的勇敢的人们来到美国寻求宗教自由，甘冒一切风险以逃离他们因自己的信仰而遭受的压制、迫害和歧视。我们的建国先贤将宗教自由原则铭刻在我国宪法第一修正案（First Amendment）之中，将其确立为我们作为一个国家的基石。今天，美国仍然是一个宗教多元化的国家——一片由各种信仰和信念体系的惯例和极大的融合以独特方式予以增强的土地。值此宗教自由日（Religious Freedom Day），我们重申对于保护及增进我们的美国特性的这一关键方面的承诺，以及在我国各地和世界各地保护所有信仰和没有信仰的人们的自由。
我国最强大的实力现在而且一直都在于我们的多元化，其中包括在我国各地得到践行的多种信仰和信念。本届政府致力于增强联邦雇员队伍，通过增进包括以宗教为基础的多样性、公平性、包容性和无障碍性，确保他们全面展现出我国人民的广泛性。因此，我重新设立了白宫信仰与社区伙伴关系办公室（White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships），通过与宗教和世俗组织结成伙伴来为需要帮助的人们服务。这些公私伙伴关系体现了美国的宗教自由体制并且行之有效——不论是共同努力为人们接种COVID-19疫苗，还是为儿童提供有营养的餐食，亦或是欢迎难民在美国重新安置。
每个人在参加宗教仪式、上学以及参加社区中心的活动，或戴着自己的信仰标志走在路上时都应当感到安全。为了帮助确保人人都能没有恐惧地践行他们的信仰，本届政府已实施为国土安全部（Department of Homeland Security）的“非营利安全拨款计划”（Nonprofit Security Grant Program）增拨资金，该计划为受到威胁的非营利组织提供资金——其中包括敬拜场所以及其他宗教所属实体——以改善它们的安全和保障。我还签署了《打击COVID-19仇恨犯罪法》（COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act），其中包括《贾巴拉-海耶反仇视法》（Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act），以提供我们知道能够有效地制止及起诉仇恨犯罪的工具。我们必须不断申明仇恨在美国没有安全藏匿所。在这个很多人因其信仰和信念而遭受令人发指的迫害的时候，本届政府继续坚定地努力在全球引领并促进包括宗教自由在内的各项人权。
与许许多多美国人一样，信仰在我的生活中一直是希望的灯塔以及远大目标的召唤，而且我相信保护宗教自由现在和以往任何时候同样重要。我们必须继续努力以确保所有信仰——或没有信仰——的人们都得到社会全面参与者的对待，并享有平等的权利和尊严。只有帮助所有人都享有自由，我们才能全面实现我们希望自己所拥有的自由。值此宗教自由日，让我们重新致力于这些根本原则。
为此，我，约瑟夫·R·拜登（JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.），美利坚合众国总统，根据美利坚合众国宪法和法律赋予我的权力，特此宣告2022年1月16日为宗教自由日。
我谨于公元二千零二十二年，即美利坚合众国独立二百四十六年之一月十四日在此签名为证。
约瑟夫·R·拜登

A Proclamation on Religious Freedom Day, 2022

JANUARY 14, 2022•PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS
From the earliest days of our Nation, courageous people from every part of the world have come to the United States in search of religious liberty, risking everything to flee oppression, persecution, and discrimination because of their beliefs.  Our Founders enshrined the principle of religious freedom in the First Amendment to our Constitution, establishing it as a cornerstone of who we are as a Nation.  Today, America remains a religiously diverse Nation — a land uniquely strengthened by the routine and extraordinary commingling of faiths and belief systems.  On Religious Freedom Day, we recommit ourselves to the protection and advancement of this vital aspect of our American character — and to protecting the freedom of people of all faiths and none, both across our Nation and around the world.
Our country’s greatest strength is and always has been our diversity, including the multitude of faiths and beliefs practiced across our Nation.  My Administration is committed to strengthening the Federal workforce by ensuring that it resembles the full breadth of our people by promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, including on the basis of religion.  That is why I reestablished the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to serve people in need by partnering with both religious and secular organizations.  These public-private partnerships embody the American system of religious freedom and are effective — whether by working together to get people vaccinated against COVID-19, providing nutritious meals to children, or welcoming and resettling refugees to the United States.
Everyone should feel safe when attending a religious service, school, a community center event, or while walking down the street wearing the symbols of their faith.  To help ensure that everyone can practice their faith without fear, my Administration has implemented increased funding for the Department of Homeland Security’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which makes funding available to threatened nonprofits — including houses of worship and other religious affiliated entities — to improve their safety and security.  I also signed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which included the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act to provide tools that we know are effective in preventing and prosecuting hate crimes.  We must constantly affirm that hate has no safe harbor in America.  My Administration remains steadfast in our efforts to lead and advance human rights including the freedom of religion around the globe at a time when many people are subject to horrifying persecution for their faith and beliefs.
In my life, faith has always been a beacon of hope and a calling to purpose, as it is for so many Americans, and I believe that protecting religious freedom is as important now as it has ever been.  We must continue our work to ensure that people of all faiths — or none — are treated as full participants in society, equal in rights and dignity.  We can only fully realize the freedom we wish for ourselves by helping to ensure liberty for all.  On Religious Freedom Day, let us rededicate ourselves to these fundamental principles.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 16, 2022, as Religious Freedom Day.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-sixth.
                             JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.