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Trump administration announces plan to remove resettled refugees

The Trump administration is laying the groundwork to detain and deport refugees lawfully resettled in the United States. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services posted an interim final rule reducing the amount of time individuals can contest the termination of their…

Tennessee court grants shooter new trial because victim was trans

The suspect in a 2025 self-defense trial should have been able to argue that his slain victim was a transgender woman and therefore a greater threat to his safety than jurors were told, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled…

Record number of independent voters could sway midterms

In 2024, independent voters helped elect Donald Trump. Two years later, there are more registered independent voters than ever, and polls show most will back Democrats in November’s midterms. “A shift in independents’ political leanings caused the Republican Party advantage…

What if independent voters are trying to tell us something?

Political parties want independent voters’ support. But are they prepared to offer them belonging without demanding their allegiance? A woman once asked me to carry a message to my fellow Democrats. She was a Democrat, but her husband was an…

New Supreme Court term has cases on religion, immigration, climate and guns

The U.S. Supreme Court’s new term features important cases on controversial issues — religion, immigration and guns — with rulings due before the end of June 2027. Justices were denied much of a summer break as they ruled on cases…

Remembering St. Francis more accurately

If the anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi’s death on Oct. 3, 1226, or his feast day on Oct. 4 slipped by your attention (as they did mine), not to worry. No less than Pope Leo has declared all October…

250 years later, fight for religious dissent recalled

On a cool, damp Sunday evening in October, a small crowd gathered under the white steel beams that define the footprint of the Historic Polegreen Church in Hanover County, Va., site of one of the first four non-Anglican meeting houses…

Maryland appeals court says 37 churches must pay up to leave UMC

Thirty-seven Maryland churches sought to leave The United Methodist Church and take their properties with them, but the Appellate Court of Maryland has said the churches must pay to leave. On Oct. 5, the state appellate court affirmed a lower…

Paxton allies smeared every American who seeks mental health care, Kinzinger says

The false story about James Talarico leaving the campaign trail to seek mental health treatment insulted millions of Americans, according to former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger. Kinzinger, who represented Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from…

Staff layoffs and resignations reported at Christianity Today

Christianity Today is in “chaos” with staff departures and layoffs, according to the editor of another Christian journal. Warren Cole Smith, editor of MinistryWatch, wrote Oct. 12 that “even from the outside, the chaos (at CT) is not hard to…

Talarico appears at Black megachurch in Dallas

The Texas Legislature is “so focused on the 10 that they forget about the two,” James Talarico told a Dallas megachurch Sunday, Oct. 13. His reference was to the Legislature and governor’s fixation on the Ten Commandments, wanting all public…

North Carolina faith leaders oppose off-campus religious classes

More than 125 North Carolina faith leaders joined together to urge the governor and legislature to reject a state budget provision guaranteeing public school students up to four hours per week of off-campus religious instruction. The release time for religious…

250 years later, fight for religious dissent recalled

Paxton allies smeared every American who seeks mental health care, Kinzinger says

What if independent voters are trying to tell us something?

Trump administration announces plan to remove resettled refugees

Trump administration announces plan to remove resettled refugees

Tennessee court grants shooter new trial because victim was trans

Record number of independent voters could sway midterms

What if independent voters are trying to tell us something?

New Supreme Court term has cases on religion, immigration, climate and guns

Remembering St. Francis more accurately

250 years later, fight for religious dissent recalled

Maryland appeals court says 37 churches must pay up to leave UMC

Paxton allies smeared every American who seeks mental health care, Kinzinger says

Staff layoffs and resignations reported at Christianity Today

Talarico appears at Black megachurch in Dallas

North Carolina faith leaders oppose off-campus religious classes

In Israel’s election, Netanyahu faces a reckoning over Oct. 7 failure

Traveling crosses remember those who died in immigration custody, ICE operations

Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Sikh groups say FBI data undercounts bias

Pope Leo XIV’s lung cancer highlights growing number of nonsmokers diagnosed with the disease – and younger people too

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250 years later, fight for religious dissent recalled

Paxton allies smeared every American who seeks mental health care, Kinzinger says

What if independent voters are trying to tell us something?

Trump administration announces plan to remove resettled refugees