Two Baptist pastors in Myanmar who have been imprisoned since Christmas Eve face up to eight years in prison for helping a journalist who photographed evidence of the Myanmar military’s bombing of a Catholic church.
5 faith facts about Sam Brownback, nominee for international religious freedom ambassador
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a Methodist-turned-Catholic politician, describes religious freedom as “the choice of what you do with your own soul.”
Most white evangelicals don’t believe Muslims belong in U.S.
Two-thirds believe Islam is not part of mainstream U.S. society and contend it encourages violence more than other faiths, while 72 percent see a natural conflict between Islam and democracy, according to Pew.
Trump’s evangelical advisors reportedly discussed transgender ban at White House meeting
Evangelical Christian leaders who informally advise the president discussed reversing the year-old policy two weeks ago at the White House, according to David Brody of Christian Broadcasting Network News.
Trump transgender ban a nod to Christian conservatives
His agenda stalled and his party divided, President Donald Trump veered into the nation’s simmering culture wars by announcing plans to ban transgender people from serving in the military.
Meet six black women shattering the theological glass ceiling
They are individuals who, for the most part, are already trailblazers in a field where historically black women are rarely considered authorities on topics from preaching, to pastoral care, to systematic theology, to biblical hermeneutics.
‘They kept us as slaves’: AP reveals claims against N.C.-based church
An investigation has found that Word of Faith Fellowship used its two church branches in Latin America’s largest nation to siphon a steady flow of young laborers to its 35-acre compound in rural North Carolina.
Texas Senate votes again to advance ‘bathroom bill’
In a 21-10 vote, the Texas Senate gave its backing to a bill that would regulate bathroom use in schools and buildings overseen by cities and counties and nix parts of local nondiscrimination ordinances.
Catholics’ and evangelicals’ ‘surprising ecumenism’
In many places, evangelicals and Catholics are competing for the same souls. I can’t seem to get anyone interested in talking about evangelical proselytization of lapsed Catholics. But I’m surprised it’s not more of a strain on their “surprising ecumenism.”
‘Submit to your husbands’: Women told to endure domestic violence in the name of God
Research shows the men most likely to abuse their wives are evangelical Christians who attend church sporadically. Church leaders say they abhor abuse. But advocates say the church is not just failing to address it but enabling and concealing it.
Evangelical leaders rally around Kushner amid Russia probe
A host of Christian leaders, from South Carolina Pastor Mark Burns to Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., have been taking to Twitter and releasing statements voicing support for Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
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