Wars are usually explained through strategy, security, and geopolitics. Yet the current war with Iran cannot be understood through these categories alone. Across Washington, Rome, and Evangelical America, religious language has quickly become one of the central ways the war is interpreted.
Evangelical pastors praying in the White House, theological support from Christian Zionists, and warnings from the Vatican reveal that religion is not merely reacting to the war: It is helping shape how the conflict is framed, justified, and contested in the international arena.
