Opinion: There should be no pandemic privilege for religion
Even before we are out of the coronavirus pandemic, Missouri’s lawmakers are considering bills that would make it more difficult…
Religion
Anti-abortion faith leaders support use of COVID-19 vaccines
In a growing consensus, religious leaders at the forefront of the anti-abortion movement in the United States are telling their…
Warnock, Biden wins give twin thrills to religious liberals
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Rev. and Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock shares more than a party with President-elect Joe Biden: Both Democrats…
Warnock joins select club of pastor politicians
Raphael Warnock, by winning Georgia’s U.S. Senate election against Sen. Kelly Loeffler, will join Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., as one…
Senate race thrusts ‘Black America’s church’ into spotlight
ATLANTA (AP) — For decades, the red-bricked Gothic Revival church where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached…
President in the pews: DC churches offer Biden options
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — His motorcade thunders around Delaware, snarling traffic. Everywhere he goes, a security team envelops him and…
Vandals hit Black churches in Washington during pro-Trump rallies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vandals tore down a Black Lives Matter banner and sign from two historic Black churches in downtown…
Why do so few clergy serve in Congress?
While campaigning for Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., fellow Republican and Georgian Rep. Doug Collins – a former pastor – attacked…
Church’s holiday market is forced to go virtual
LINDENWOOD PARK – For the last five years or so, dozens of vendors sold their wares to about 1,000 happy…
Catholics divided as bishops examine Biden’s abortion stance
Catholics split almost evenly in supporting Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the presidential election. Now they’re sharply divided over…
What’s next for evangelicals after Trump leaves office?
Donald Trump, by his own words and actions, does not appear to be the most religious person. He has claimed…
Christian churches mirror country’s political division
NEW YORK (AP) — The messages in Christian houses of worship on the first weekend since the election were as…
Black churches have been getting ‘souls to the polls’ for more than 60 years
At Black churches up and down the U.S., religious slogans have been supplanted with another message in the runup to…
Does having churches as polling places sway the vote?
Houses of worship may be busier than usual come Election Day as Americans head to the polls rather than the…
Why masks are a religious issue
Seemingly everyone has an opinion on masks: when to wear them, how to wear them, which ones are best and…
Democrats tap array of faith leaders for convention
The Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., who criticized President Donald Trump after he held a Bible aloft at a photo op at…