A study by the Pew Research Center released Wednesday (Sept. 26) has found that while black men are less religious than black women, they are more religious than white women and white men.
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Sen. John McCain: Known as a veteran but also a man of quiet faith
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.”
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Global religious freedom commission cites 28 key nations for ‘ongoing downward trend’
“Sadly, religious freedom conditions deteriorated in many countries in 2017.”
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Hurricane-damaged houses of worship can receive FEMA aid
President Trump tweeted in September that Texas churches should be “entitled to reimbursement from FEMA” for aiding Hurricane Harvey victims.
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On Reformation anniversary, Lutherans bridge divides with other faiths
“We don’t have that full communion yet but we definitely are on the way.”
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Thousands of faith leaders ask Congress to protect Johnson Amendment
“Changing the law would threaten the integrity and independence of houses of worship,” reads the letter faith leaders sent to protect church-state separation.
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The good works of churches often go unnoticed by Americans
Churches do much more than feed the hungry and clothe the naked.
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Conservative evangelicals revel in their ‘unprecedented’ presidential access
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.
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Southern Baptists condemn white supremacy, after declining to comment before
The group called it “antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
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‘Because she was immoral’: Christian school denies pregnant teen graduation walk
“Maddi is being disciplined, not because she’s pregnant, but because she was immoral,” wrote David R. Hobbs, the school administrator.