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  Separation of immigrant families prompts strong response

  The recently implemented zero-tolerance immigration policy that separates children from their parents who cross the border without proper documentation prompted strong reaction from some Baptists.

  06/20/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Robert George and Cornel West offer antidote to partisanship

  The right-leaning Robert P. George and the left-leaning Cornel West may not agree ideologically, but they came to the nation’s capital to urge others to get to know people who are not like them, just as Martin Luther King Jr. did.

  06/04/2018 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Narrow ruling in favor of Christian baker prompts varied reactions

  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado Christian baker who refused to design a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding reception, but the ruling’s narrow scope prompted widely ranging responses—and even led opposing lawyers to claim at least partial victory.

  06/04/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Evangelicals and White House team up for prison reform

  The First Step Act, aimed at reducing the number of people who return to prison after serving time, passed the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan support from lawmakers and with the support of a number of prominent evangelical Christians and institutions.

  05/30/2018 - By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service

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  Museum of the Bible visitors top half a million in six months

  The Museum of the Bible, the newest tourist attraction near the National Mall, has drawn 565,000 visitors since it opened six months ago.

  05/18/2018 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Perkins appointed to international religious freedom panel

  Tony Perkins, the head of the conservative Christian lobbying group Family Research Council, has been appointed to a U.S. government commission dedicated to “defending the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad.”

  05/18/2018 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Court decision likely to expand gambling but not in Texas

  A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a ban on most state-authorized sports gambling likely will have little impact on Texas, but it could green-light legalized sports betting in surrounding states.

  05/15/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Executive order aims to protect religious liberty from ‘government overreach’

  President Trump unveiled a new initiative that aims to give faith groups a stronger voice within the federal government and serve as a watchdog for government overreach on religious liberty issues.

  05/04/2018 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

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  Discrimination still a concern 50 years after Fair Housing Act

  On the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, Baptists noted progress in eliminating race-based housing discrimination while also citing a need for further improvement.

  04/14/2018 - By David Roach / Baptist Press

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  Controversy erupts over Bible in Okinawa naval hospital display

  Navy officials are investigating complaints about the placement of a Bible in a public display about POW/MIAs at the U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, the service’s largest overseas medical facility.

  04/11/2018 - By Mark A. Kellner / Religion News Service

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  Red Letter Revival gives voice to evangelicals on the margins

  Progressive evangelicals issued a call to action at the Red Letter Revival, a two-day gathering near the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.

  04/11/2018 - By Jack Jenkins / Religion News Service

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  Remembering MLK’s last sermon with renewed hope

  Cleophus Smith is one of two surviving sanitation workers who were involved in the two-month Memphis strike and remain on the job. To him, the continuing struggle for better conditions for sanitation workers is a spiritual one.

  04/02/2018 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service