Faith leaders offer prayers as President Trump tests positive for COVID-19
RNS As news of President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 test spread, prayers began flowing for his recovery and for the recovery of First Lady Melania Trump. Among the first to pray: former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump’s rival in the current presidential race. President Trump tweeted the news of his positive test shortly after midnight […]
Essay: Why US evangelicals will support Donald Trump in 2020
In an article first published on Religion News Service, Rev JOHNNIE MOORE, who has served as an informal adviser to the Trump administration, says its US President Donald Trump’s policies that will win him the upcoming US presidential election…
Trump faith advisers say the President did the right thing by visiting church last week
Washington DC, USRNS Informal evangelical Christian advisers to President Donald Trump have long championed religious freedom as a key issue that should be embraced by the administration, often arguing passionately against government infringement on religious activities. That’s why some have framed the President’s recent 1st June photo-op in front of St John’s Episcopal Church, in […]
Faith leaders offer mixed response after missile strike kills Iranian commander
RNS Religious leaders were split along liberal and conservative lines in their responses to a US drone strike that killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani early Friday, although even President Trump’s staunchest evangelical Christian supporters appeared unsettled about the potential blowback from the attack. Prominent clergy of all stripes called on people of faith to […]
Religious freedom watchdog, facing recent controversy, awaits reauthorisation
Washington DC, USRNS The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, whose funding runs out on Saturday, could be reauthorised by week’s end if Congress passes an omnibus bill that includes a section recommending it stay in business. Since its creation in 1998, the independent agency has drawn attention to repression of religious minorities across the […]
Delegation of US evangelical leaders meets with Saudi Crown Prince
A delegation of American evangelical Christian leaders have met with the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in the Middle Eastern nation. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with Joel C Rosenberg. PICTURE: SPA, 23-02-1440 AH. The meeting was held despite an international outcry over the death of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khoshoggi – […]
Evangelicals’ White House meetings illegal, church-state watchdog says
RNS A church-state watchdog is demanding a halt to meetings between the Trump administration and an informal group of evangelical advisers who have proved to be among the President’s staunchest supporters. Americans United for Separation of Church and State said the group is violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act, a 1972 law that provides transparency […]
ESSAY: STOP THE ‘WEAPONISATION’ OF RELIGION IN PAKISTANI POLITICS
As Pakistanis head to the polls, Rev JOHNNIE MOORE and GAYLE MANCHIN – who both serve on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom – call for “unrelenting pressure” for the nation’s government to stop the harassment of the country’s religious minorities…
ESSAY: WHY I WON’T BAIL ON THE WHITE HOUSE
Rev JOHNNIE MOORE, a member of US President Donald Trump’s so-called evangelical advisory board, writes, in an article first published on Religion News Service, the value he sees in the position…