Jack Jenkins
Poll: Nearly half of US wants a Christian nation
Forty-five percent of Americans believe the US should be a “Christian nation,” one of several striking findings from a sweepin...
WCC head meets with Patriarch Kirill
The acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches met this week with Patriarch Kirill, the Russian Orthodox Church...
Ron Sider, evangelical activist, dies at 82
Ron Sider, an author, seminary professor and evangelical social justice activist, has died, according to an online update from...
Faith leaders attend celebration of gun control law
Faith leaders from a wide range of traditions, including those whose houses of worship have been attacked, were at the White House on July 11 as members of Congress and other gun control advocates ...
Faith groups gather at Supreme Court after leak
Jamie Manson, head of Catholics for Choice, was watching Netflix when Politico published US Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion arguing for overturning Roe v....
Muslims and Jews worried about Twitter under Musk
Muslim and Jewish organizations are expressing concern about billionaire Elon Musk’s impending ownership of Twitter, warning that the aerospace tycoon could roll back moderation policies and unleas...
Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks about faith
Immediately after President Joe Biden introduced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the US Supreme Court on February 25, the federal appeals court judge stepped up to the podium and appe...
Conservative PAC sues Biden administration, targets liberal Catholics
The conservative political action committee CatholicVote is suing President Joe Biden’s administration in an effort to secure records of communication between the US government and Catholic groups ...
Immigration reform no longer unites faith groups
Back in 2013, creating a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States was the rare issue that virtually all major religious groups in the United States could ...
In new book, Mark Meadows confirms Trump Bible photo op was Ivanka’s idea
A new book by Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows offers a detailed account of the former president’s infamous Bible photo op at St....
Who is ISIS-K, the group officials blame for the Kabul airport bombings?
A horrific terrorist attack at the Kabul airport on August 26 killed at least 12 US service members and more than 60 Afghans attempting to flee the country....
Former Trump ambassador launches international religious freedom conference
Sam Brownback, former US ambassador for international religious freedom in the Trump administration, helped launch a conference on international religious freedom in Washington, DC, on July 13, bri...
Mary Novak to lead Network lobby
Catholic social justice lobby Network has chosen Georgetown University law professor Mary Novak to take over the group after longtime leader Simone Campbell retires.
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Capitol violence brewed from nationalism, conspiracies, and Jesus
Moments before the assault on the US Capitol began on January 6, a mass of Trump supporters gathered at a northwest entrance....
Top German Catholic official says church should be more inclusive
Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German national conference of Catholic prelates, called for a more inclusive church on December 29, suggesting that the Catholic hierarchy could shift its p...
As chaos hits Capitol, people of faith respond
On the morning of January 6, a small, interfaith prayer circle surrounded a Black Lives Matter sign, created to replace similar banners repeatedly stolen and destroyed by the far-right Proud Boys i...
Proud Boys burn BLM signs at DC churches
People reportedly affiliated with the hate group Proud Boys tore down Black Lives Matter signs belonging to churches in Washington, DC, on December 12, setting at least one aflame.
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Nuns on the Bus founder Simone Campbell announces retirement
Simone Campbell, the Roman Catholic sister made famous by her Nuns on the Bus tours and her support for the Affordable Care Act, announced on October 20 that she will step down early next year a...
Border Patrol raids faith-based immigrant aid camp for second time in three months
Agents with the US Border Patrol raided a faith-based humanitarian aid camp for undocumented immigrants near the US-Mexico border on the evening of October 5—the second action taken against the cam...
Mike Pence replaces Jesus with patriotic imagery in RNC speech
Speaking before a crowd at Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore on August 26, Vice President Mike Pence, a self-described “born-again, evangelical Catholic,” sprinkled his address to the Re...