Last Friday, as George Santos completed his second week in Congress, Mazi Melesa Pilip was contemplating the relief Shabbat would bring — and also the sting of the betrayal she felt by her fellow Long Island lawmaker.
Florida Gov. DeSantis leads the GOP’s national charge against public education that includes lessons on race and sexual orientation
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ disdain for “woke ideology” is on full display. At a January 2023 inaugural event, the governor boasted that “Florida is where woke goes to die.”
Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, and Christians Unite in Support for Apache Fight to Save Oak Flat
A coalition of religious and Native American organizations is uniting to support the nonprofit group Apache Stronghold in its fight to save the sacred site of Oak Flat, a 7-square-mile stretch of land east of Phoenix that a multinational corporation…
Group of faith leaders sue challenging Missouri abortion law
A lawsuit filed on behalf of several Missouri faith leaders on the 50th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision asks a court to throw out the state’s abortion law, alleging that lawmakers openly invoked their personal…
‘Exporting garbage to the nations’: conservative Christian rifts spreading like cracked glass
The conservative Christian base of the Republican Party has never been as monolithic as it sometimes seems. This has recently been on vivid display in Pennsylvania, where rifts among conservative evangelical Christians are spreading like cracked glass.
New Israeli power broker seeks to rewrite history to justify violence against Palestinians
A right-wing Israeli politician is trying to recast a key part of American history. That’s not a usual subject for an Israeli Cabinet member. But Itamar Ben-Gvir is trying to make his anti-Palestinian movement seem less extremist and more appealing…
In Uganda ‘Prophet Elvis’ Puts The Profit In Prophet
Today’s problems require more than prayer, Bishop Wisdom K. Peter told a crowd gathered on the outskirts of Uganda’s capital, Kampala. You need a prophet, he said.
Christians represented significant faction of capital rioters in Brazil
The storming of the capital city of Brasília on Jan. 8 by thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, not only left a trail of destruction, but demonstrated that a very well-organized segment of the country’s citizenry is…
The Concerns of Young Evangelicals Offer Political Insights for 2024
One of the best-known changes happening in American religion over the last few decades is the meteoric rise in the share of the general public that claims no religious affiliation on surveys.
A historic meeting of Orthodox Christian scholars convenes to confront divisions and war
Nearly 400 Orthodox Christian theologians from 44 countries convened in the largest international conference of its kind in Greece on Thursday (Jan. 12) to discuss “Nicaea-sized” questions facing the Eastern Orthodox Church amid war and bitter division.
An Interview With Rick Warren
For most people who have been around evangelicalism over the past 40 years, Rick Warren needs no introduction. He and his wife, Kay, founded Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, and it has become one of the largest and most influential…
Jesus baptism site makeover aims to draw a million Christians in 2030
Today the River Jordan lacks its biblical proportions, but some 200,000 visitors still flock to the traditional spot for Christian baptisms in Jordan in a typical year.