--- title: Kasich Proposes New Government Agency to Combat ISIS description: Kasich admitted that state governors "can only express our concerns" regarding Syrian refugees canonical: https://time.com/4117452/kasich-agency-promote-judeo-christian-values-abroad/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-18T00:13:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:43:05.741Z article:section: Politics og:title: Kasich Proposes Agency to Promote Judeo-Christian Values og:description: "We need to beam messages around the world" on the freedoms enjoyed in the U.S. og:url: https://time.com/4117452/kasich-agency-promote-judeo-christian-values-abroad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdfdfd4828fa23a39/69887194428a9e6417cd028c/gettyimages-497530472.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: GOP Presidential Candidate Gov. John Kasich Holds Outlines His New National Security Strategy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kasich Proposes Agency to Promote Judeo-Christian Values twitter:description: "We need to beam messages around the world" on the freedoms enjoyed in the U.S. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdfdfd4828fa23a39/69887194428a9e6417cd028c/gettyimages-497530472.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Gov. Kasich Proposes Government Agency to Promote Judeo-Christian Values Abroad by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Nov 18, 2015 12:13 AM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Gov. John Kasich (R-OH), speaks at the National Press Club November 17, 2015 in Washington, DC. Kasich outlined a new national security strategy during his remarks. Republican presidential candidate Gov. John Kasich (R-OH), speaks at the National Press Club November 17, 2015 in Washington, DC. Kasich outlined a new national security strategy during his remarks.Win McNamee—Getty Images by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Nov 18, 2015 12:13 AM UTC Republican presidential candidate and Ohio governor John Kasich on Tuesday proposed a forming [a new government agency](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/kasich-proposes-new-government-agency-promote-judeo-christian-values-n465101) to promote Judeo-Christian values around the world as part of a broad foreign policy package to combat ISIS. The proposed agency would advance the cause for a belief system based on Christian and Jewish traditions in China, Iran, Russia and the Middle East, NBC News reports. “We need to beam messages around the world” about the freedoms enjoyed by Americans, Kasich told the network in an interview. “It means freedom, it means opportunity, it means respect for women, it means freedom to gather, it means so many things.” Kasich also favors a U.S.-led military coalition, which involves troops fighting on the ground in Iraq and Syria, but with little involvement in the ongoing Syrian civil war. The proposal comes amidst a sweeping push from Republican governors following the deadly terror attacks in Paris Friday to block efforts to move Syrian refugees into their states. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks. Kasich, who sent a letter to the President expressing his opposition to hosting refugees in Ohio, admitted during a speech at the National Press Club in Washington that as a state governor “we don’t have the authority…we can only express our concerns” over the Obama-administration plan to relocate Syrian refugees. **Read More:** [_This Is How the Syrian Refugee Screening Process Works_](http://time.com/4116619/syrian-refugees-screening-process/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4117452/kasich-agency-promote-judeo-christian-values-abroad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4117452/kasich-agency-promote-judeo-christian-values-abroad/"},"headline":"Gov. Kasich Proposes Government Agency to Promote Judeo-Christian Values Abroad","datePublished":"2015-11-18T00:13:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:43:05.741Z","description":"\"We need to beam messages around the world\" about the freedoms enjoyed by Americans","url":"https://time.com/4117452/kasich-agency-promote-judeo-christian-values-abroad/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Syria","Syrian refugees","john kasich"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdfdfd4828fa23a39/69887194428a9e6417cd028c/gettyimages-497530472.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdfdfd4828fa23a39/69887194428a9e6417cd028c/gettyimages-497530472.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GOP Presidential Candidate Gov. John Kasich Holds Outlines His New National Security Strategy","caption":"GOP Presidential Candidate Gov. John Kasich Holds Outlines His New National Security Strategy","creditText":"Win McNamee—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4117452/kasich-agency-promote-judeo-christian-values-abroad/","name":"Gov. Kasich Proposes Government Agency to Promote Judeo-Christian Values Abroad"}}]}] ```