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Adelle Banks - Religion News Service
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.”
FaithNews
Adelle Banks - Religion News Service
"Sadly, religious freedom conditions deteriorated in many countries in 2017."
Pastor Charles Stoker looks over damage to Hi-Way Tabernacle Assembly of God Church after Hurricane Harvey in Cleveland, Texas, north of Houston. (Photo courtesy of Becket Law Firm.)
Politics & SocietyNews
Adelle Banks - Religion News Service
President Trump tweeted in September that Texas churches should be “entitled to reimbursement from FEMA” for aiding Hurricane Harvey victims.
FaithNews
Adelle Banks - Religion News Service
“We don’t have that full communion yet but we definitely are on the way.”
Politics & SocietyNews
Adelle Banks - Religion News Service
“Changing the law would threaten the integrity and independence of houses of worship,” reads the letter faith leaders sent to protect church-state separation.
FaithNews
Adelle Banks - Religion News Service
Churches do much more than feed the hungry and clothe the naked.
Politics & SocietyNews
Adelle Banks - Religion News Service
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.
Barrett Duke, chair of the Southern Baptist Convention’s 2017 Resolutions Committee, listens to the Rev. Dwight McKissic, original drafter of a resolution criticizing the “alt-right” movement and white supremacy that was adopted on June 14, 2017. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks
FaithNews
Adelle Banks - Religion News Service
The group called it “antithetical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Heritage Academy senior Maddi Runkles. Photo courtesy of Maddi Runkles
FaithNews
Adelle Banks - Religion News Service
“Maddi is being disciplined, not because she’s pregnant, but because she was immoral,” wrote David R. Hobbs, the school administrator.
Casey Irwin, a formerly incarcerated woman from Minnesota, speaks at the launch of the first “Second Chance Month” in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 2017. (RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks)
Politics & SocietyNews
Adelle Banks - Religion News Service
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.