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  Some religious leaders urge vaccine exemptions for military

  More than 1,700 religious leaders organized by former President Donald Trump’s faith advisers are urging the U.S. military to grant religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

  11/26/2021 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Some Southern Baptists object to HHS changes

  New regulatory actions indicate the Biden administration is rolling back religious freedom protections, some Southern Baptists contend.

  11/22/2021 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

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  Justices weigh religious liberty and prison security

  The U.S. Supreme Court weighed the concerns of both religious freedom and prison security in oral arguments regarding a condemned Texas inmate’s request to have a Southern Baptist pastor lay hands on and pray for him when he receives a lethal injection.

  11/09/2021 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

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  Two seminaries sue to block vaccine mandates

  Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Asbury Theological Seminary are challenging the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate in federal court.

  11/08/2021 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  High court weighs if Texas abortion ban may stay in effect

  The U.S. Supreme Court questioned multiple lawyers for nearly three hours Nov. 1 regarding whether Texas’ ban on heartbeat abortions may continue to be enforced.

  11/02/2021 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

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  Most Americans support church-state separation

  Americans do not want to see the United States declared a Christian country, and they do not want to forsake the separation of church and state, a new Pew Research study finds.

  11/01/2021 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service

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  Baptists urge court to protect Texas inmate’s religious freedom

  Both the Baptist Joint Committee and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission urged the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the religious freedom of a Texas Death Row inmate who wants his pastor to lay hands on him and pray for him at the moment of his execution.

  09/29/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  NIH director ‘a bit’ frustrated with evangelicals about vaccine

  Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, acknowledged he is “a bit” frustrated with fellow evangelicals who have hesitated or refused to get the vaccine, even as the delta variant has led to an average of more than 1,000 U.S. deaths a day.

  09/13/2021 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Supreme Court lets stand Texas fetal heartbeat law

  In a 5-4 decision, a divided U.S. Supreme Court refused to block the new Texas law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.

  09/02/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Appeals court first to uphold dismemberment abortion ban

  The full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed a federal judge and its own three-person panel in a 9-5 opinion that supported the constitutionality of Texas’ prohibition of what is known as dismemberment abortion.

  08/20/2021 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

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  Evangélicos instan al Congreso a atender la situación de los Dreamers

  Más de 2.800 cristianos evangélicos pidieron al Congreso de Estados Unidos que actúe con prontitud para abordar la situación de los Dreamers.

  08/19/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Evangelicals urge Congress to address Dreamers plight

  More than 2,800 evangelical Christians called on the U.S. Congress to act promptly to address the situation of Dreamers who benefited from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program but now find their legal status imperiled.

  08/13/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor