US conservative faith leaders praise Johnson for House’s approval of foreign aid
United States RNS Conservative religious leaders who had been imploring Speaker Mike Johnson to back assistance for Ukraine and Israel in fighting their wars celebrated the House’s passage of foreign aid packages Saturday, clearing the way for the measures to go to the Senate. Brent Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious […]
US midterms: Faith plays central role in Republican efforts to win Latino votes
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, of Religion News Service, reports that Pew Research Center data looking at the 2022 midterm election preferences of Latinos shows that some of the sharpest differences in candidate choice are by religion…
After Roe v Wade: In the US, anti-abortion movement faces internal divisions
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports that in the wake of the Dobbs decision, abortion foes hope to ban abortion where they can and find ‘creative approaches’ like shareholder activism to punish abortion rights supporters…
‘It’s time to put a stop to attacks on religion’, says US President
RNS US President Donald Trump told his political base of evangelical Christians that he would continue to restore the religious liberty many of them feel they’ve lost. “It is time to put a stop to the attacks on religion,” Mr Trump said in a speech on Thursday to the Faith and Freedom Coalition that began […]