A new State Department report notes some “good news,” like improving conditions in Uzbekistan, though the list of worst religious persecutors remains largely unchanged.
India rejects critical US religious freedom report
State Department report says senior BJP officials made ‘inflammatory speeches’ against religious minorities last year.
At Jimmy Carter’s small Plains church, new pastor looks to expand reach
The Rev. Tony Lowden is the first black pastor at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia., whose membership includes President Jimmy Carter.
Bibles threatened by US trade war with China, Christian publishers warn
HarperCollins, Tyndale, and others warn Trump administration that 25-percent tariff hike will make God’s Word harder to get—and could cause some translations to be discontinued.
New Lawsuit Seeks To Bring Church Of Scientology Into The Me Too Era
A former Scientologist is suing the church and its leader David Miscavige, alleging years of abuse — and lawyers are hoping it will inspire more to come forward.
The Global Refugee Crisis Hit a Record High. The US Welcome for the Persecuted Is at a Record Low.
In just a few years, the United States has gone from a world leader in refugee resettlement to only admitting a fraction as many as it once did—a shift that has allowed fewer persecuted Christians and other religious minorities into…
Not just churches: Camps are also prone to child sexual abuse
Day and overnight camps are a staple of summer, a welcome relief for working parents. But they can also present opportunities for sexual predators.
Cracker Barrel bars church event over LGBT execution remarks
Cracker Barrel said it won’t host an event by a Tennessee church whose pastor was a detective who preached that the government should execute gay people.
Finding Faith by Studying the Down-and-Out
Chris Arnade studied the most destitute and seemingly hopeless Americans–street people, addicts, prostitutes, the wretchedly poor, the “underclass,” people often referred to as the “dregs of society”–searching for the shreds of human dignity that they still have by getting to…
20 changes the new Mormon president has made to appeal to Millennials and Generation Z
“When will the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints start changing so that it stops alienating people in their 20s and 30s?”
What happened after my mostly white church put up a Black Lives Matter sign
We have received angry letters from local citizens (including parishioners from a sister church) and anonymous phone calls, and had an ALM sign put up after someone stole our BLM sign.
Charitable giving by individual Americans drops in 2018
Charitable giving by individual Americans in 2018 suffered its biggest drop since the Great Recession of 2008-09, in part because of Republican-backed changes in tax policy, according to the latest comprehensive report on Americans’ giving patterns.