US Catholic leaders join LGBTQ group to condemn discrimination against transgender people
Washington DC, USRNS Two Roman Catholic bishops and other church leaders have teamed up with the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy organisation, to condemn discrimination against transgender people, the groups announced Wednesday. In a statement provided to Religion News Service, Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky; and the […]
Seeing threat to religious freedom, US Attorney General announces special task force
RNS US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced during a Department of Justice summit in Washington that he is creating a religious liberty taskforce to challenge what he called a dangerous movement “eroding our great tradition of religious freedom”. Sessions said Monday the task force is an outgrowth of US President Donald Trump’s executive order directing […]