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Senate amendment restores ban on taxpayer-funded abortions

A Southern Baptist senator introduced an amendment that reinstates a ban on the use of federal funds to pay for abortions.

08/12/2021 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

Personal experience overcoming some vaccine hesitancy

Russell Moore, Southern Baptist ethicist-turned-public theologian, said that knowing people who became seriously ill or died from COVID-19 may be causing some vaccine-hesitant individuals to change their minds.

08/11/2021 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

Hundreds arrested at Capitol protest for voting rights

More than 200 faith-led demonstrators were arrested at the U.S. Capitol while praying, singing and protesting in the street, hoping to draw attention to voting rights and a slate of other issues participants argued impact the poor and low-wage workers.

08/04/2021 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

Faith-based disaster management expert named to federal post

Marcus T. Coleman, an expert in public-private collaborations and disaster management has been named the new director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

08/04/2021 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

Nominees named for key international religious freedom roles

The White House announced July 30 the nomination of Rashad Hussain, the director of partnerships and global engagement at the National Security Council, as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.

08/03/2021 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Judge orders forfeiture of ancient tablet

A federal judge has ordered Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts chain whose president is Museum of the Bible founder Steve Green, to forfeit an ancient tablet bearing a rare fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

08/02/2021 - By Renée Roden / Religion News Service

Vaccine hesitancy declines among faith groups

A new survey finds vaccine hesitancy has fallen among Americans overall and among all religious subgroups in just three months.

08/02/2021 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

Insurrectionists ‘perceived themselves to be Christians’

Testifying before a congressional committee, a District of Columbia police officer described insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as “terrorists” who “perceived themselves to be Christians.”

07/28/2021 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

High concentrations of white evangelicals in COVID hotspots

As COVID-19 cases surge again, two things are true about many counties considered hot spots: Vaccination rates are low, and white evangelical Protestant populations are high, according to a new data analysis.

07/21/2021 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

Senate acts to stymie China’s genocide of Uyghurs

The U.S. Senate approved an import ban on goods made by forced labor in western China on the same day global religious freedom advocates brought attention to the Communist Party’s genocidal campaign primarily against Uyghur Muslims in the region.

07/21/2021 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

Confronting Christian nationalism as ‘distortion of the gospel’

A loose consortium of Christian organizations has produced a three-session adult study curriculum called “Responding to Christian Nationalism” for pastors who want to educate church members.

07/13/2021 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service

Study shows how religion affected 2020 presidential vote

A new survey reports former President Donald Trump expanded his robust support among white evangelicals in the 2020 election, but President Joe Biden won in part by making significant gains among Catholics and non-evangelical Protestants.

07/06/2021 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service