U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced a major expansion of Meals-to-You, a partnership between the USDA, the Baylor University Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, McLane Global and PepsiCo, to feed low-income children in rural areas.

Across the country, black clergy say the coronavirus is touching—and sometimes taking—the faithful who until a month ago were accustomed to meeting weekly in their pews.

A student at Liberty University has filed a class-action lawsuit against the school alleging students were put at “severe physical risk” when the campus reopened in March despite the pandemic.

An Interim Final Rule published by the U.S. Small Business Administration provides assurance that churches and other ministries are in fact eligible to receive loans as part of a massive financial stimulus bill passed by Congress.

A Baptist constitutional attorney and a Southern Baptist ethicist took somewhat different views regarding federal COVID-19 relief for churches.

Joseph Lowery, a civil rights leader who worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. and prayed at President Barack Obama’s first inauguration, died March 27 at age 98.

The Washington National Cathedral donated thousands of medical masks to two hospitals in the nation’s capital after discovering a trove of the much-needed protective equipment just feet from where Helen Keller and other prominent Americans lie in the cathedral’s underground crypts.

The U.S. Supreme Court has paused part of its work in response to COVID-19 with decisions in cases regarding religious liberty and abortion still to be announced.

There has been no sustained community transmission of the coronavirus in the United States so far, and many Chinese churches are doing their best to keep it that way.

An Arizona federal judge has reversed the convictions of four faith-based volunteers who were fined and put on probation for aiding migrants at the border, saying the activists simply were exercising their “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

Polarization in American Christianity and American politics may be at its highest in recent memory, but experts on the role of faith in public life nevertheless have some hope about ways to address it.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on a case prompted by a Montana program that offered tax credits to people who funded scholarships in private schools, including religious schools. Two Baptist agencies have taken opposing positions on the case.