A group of evangelical Christian leaders have asked President Trump to hold off on another effort to rescind a program for certain undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

07/10/2020 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

In a pair of 7-2 rulings related to religious liberty issues, the U.S. Supreme Court on July 8 broadened the scope of employers’ right to make employment and benefits decisions based on moral and religious grounds.

07/09/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a state program that allows public funds to go toward private education cannot exclude religious schools.

07/01/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

In the current “moment of reckoning” on racial justice, white Christians need to tell the truth about how they historically benefited from systemic racism if they want to “rescue the faith,” an author and researcher with deep Southern Baptist roots told an online audience.

06/29/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Former Secretary of Defense believes U.S. foreign policy has become over-militarized, and he sees parallels to domestic policing policies. He spoke in a webinar sponsored in part by the Institute for Global Engagement at Dallas Baptist University.

06/19/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” way in rescinding a program for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children.

06/19/2020 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision June 15 when it ruled nondiscrimination protections in federal workplace law make employment discrimination against LGBTQ individuals illegal.

06/16/2020 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Informal evangelical Christian advisers to President Donald Trump framed the president’s June 1 photo-op in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, in which he held aloft a Bible for cameras, as an expression of support for religious freedom.

06/10/2020 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

President Donald Trump signed legislation June 5 to make it easier for businesses or churches struggling during the coronavirus pandemic to take advantage of a payroll subsidy program that has been a critical part of Washington’s response to the economic crisis.

06/09/2020 - By Mark Maynard / Kentucky Today

President Trump stood before the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church in downtown Washington, D.C., on June 1 and held aloft a Bible for cameras. Less than an hour before his arrival, armored police used tear gas to clear hundreds of peaceful demonstrators from Lafayette Square park, across the street from the church. Authorities also expelled at least one Episcopal priest and a seminarian from the church’s patio.

06/02/2020 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

W. Seth Martin, founding pastor of The Brook Community Church of Minneapolis, has led his multiethnic congregation in peaceful protests since George Floyd’s death.

06/01/2020 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Uighur American attorney and activist Nury Turkel has been appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent religious freedom watchdog agency funded by Congress.

05/27/2020 - By Aysha Khan / Religion News Service