Biden visits Ebenezer Baptist Church celebrating Luther`s birthday

RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA)- Joe Biden, the president of the USA, is visiting Ebenezer Baptist Church at Atlanta.

Biden, as AP reported, is making speech that aims to celebrate the 94th birthday of the late Martin Luther King Jr.

The sermon aims to celebrate the Biden’s failure to win passage of a measure that would have bolstered voting right protections, a central campaign pledge, is one of his biggest disappointments of his first two years in office. The task is even steeper now that Republicans control the House.

In advance of Biden’s visit to the church where King once preached, White House officials said he was committed to advocating for meaningful voting rights action.

“The president will speak on a number of issues at the church, including how important it is that we have access to our democracy,” senior adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms said

Bottoms, who was Atlanta’s mayor from 2018 to 2022, said “you can’t come to Atlanta and not acknowledge the role that the civil rights movement and Dr. King played in where we are in the history of our country.”

Biden was invited to Ebenezer, where King served as co-pastor from 1960 until he was assassinated in 1968, by Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor.

But with Biden beginning to turn his attention toward an expected 2024 reelection effort, Georgia is going to get plenty of his attention.

The White House has tried to promote Biden’s agenda in minority communities.

In Atlanta, Biden will the first sitting president ever to speak at a Sunday service at Ebenezer, Bottoms said.

King, who was assassinated in 1968 after he fueled passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, would have celebrated his 94th birthday on Sunday.

Members of King’s family are expected to be in attendance for Biden’s visit.