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Source: Reuters

US to allow federal workers to promote religion in workplace

Courtney Rozen
Mon, July 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM EDT
1 min read

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. federal employees may try to recruit their coworkers to join their religion, the Trump administration said on Monday in a statement allowing workers to organize prayer groups during non-work hours.

Agency employees may seek to "persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views" in the office, Scott Kupor, director of the Office of Personnel Management, the U.S. government's human resource agency, wrote in a statement.

Supervisors can attempt to recruit their employees to their religion, so long as the efforts aren’t “harassing in nature,” according to the statement. Agencies can't discipline their employees for declining to talk to their coworkers about their religious views.

The statement represents the latest effort to expand the role of religion in the federal workplace.

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