From Israel to the US, Vice President JD Vance isn't shy about his religion

JERUSALEM – JD Vance lowered himself to kneel on a crimson cushion.

Head bowed and eyes closed, he raised his right hand to his forehead, chest and left shoulder, before placing his palm on the red-hued slab of limestone that lay before him.

For a convert to Catholicism who wears his faith on his sleeve, there could be no holier site. It is there, at the entrance of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, on the Stone of the Anointing, that Christians believe Jesus’ body was prepared for burial after he was crucified.

Christians have many titles for Jesus. Vance invoked one of them at the start of a visit to Israel last month to shore up President Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire.

“I'd ask all people of faith, in particular, my fellow Christians, to pray that the Prince of Peace can continue to work a miracle in this region of the world,” Vance said.