The longtime Arizona Republican senator, reared in the Episcopal Church, attended a Southern Baptist megachurch in his later years. He viewed himself as a Christian but had “a distrust of the religious right and a faith that is too public, too political.”

"Sadly, religious freedom conditions deteriorated in many countries in 2017."

President Trump tweeted in September that Texas churches should be “entitled to reimbursement from FEMA” for aiding Hurricane Harvey victims.

“We don’t have that full communion yet but we definitely are on the way.”

“Changing the law would threaten the integrity and independence of houses of worship,” reads the letter faith leaders sent to protect church-state separation.

Churches do much more than feed the hungry and clothe the naked.

While religious conservatives are getting such intimate contact with Donald Trump that they can literally “lay hands” on him, other faith leaders are being kept at arm’s length.

The group called it “antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

“Maddi is being disciplined, not because she’s pregnant, but because she was immoral,” wrote David R. Hobbs, the school administrator.

Representatives from a number of organizations called for a reduction in the more than 48,000 statutes that limit the rights of people with a criminal record.