Will Trump’s latest indictment hurt him with evangelical Christians? Probably not.
Washington DC, US RNS As President and since, Donald Trump has repeatedly sought to blunt the impact of scandals and prosecutions by leaning into his nearly ironclad support among evangelical Christian pastors and other leaders. Some of those figures are again rallying to Trump after his arraignment Thursday on charges of plotting to overturn the […]
US election – How Trump’s strong play for Hispanic evangelicals helped him stun Biden in Florida
Washington DC, USRNS Democrats agonising over Joe Biden’s dramatic under-performance in Florida, a state that many wrongly projected would end up in the former Vice President’s column, have begun looking at why Hispanic voters, a majority of the population of Miami-Dade County, went soft on Biden in the Sunshine State and elsewhere. One answer, said Rev Gabriel […]
US faith groups applaud Supreme Court DACA decision
Washington DC, USRNS Faith groups are applauding the US Supreme Court’s decision temporarily halting the Trump administration’s efforts to rescind an Obama-era program granting legal protection to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country as children. The five to four decision, written by Chief Justice John G Roberts, Jr, and […]
US Hispanic evangelical group offers to house migrant children in churches
RNS The head of the largest Hispanic evangelical Christian network in the United States announced it will offer to work with the Trump administration to provide resources and shelter to migrant children crossing the US-Mexico border. Speaking during a call with reporters on Monday, Rev Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, […]
US faith groups condemn citizenship question on census
RNS Citing both moral imperatives and concerns about accuracy, religious groups are speaking out against a new citizenship question slated to be included in the 2020 US census. The US Department of Commerce, which oversees the census, announced Monday it would accept a request made in December by the Department of Justice to include a question about […]
US Catholic Bishops among Christians denouncing Trump administration’s decision to rescind protection for undocumented migrant youth
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is among Christian organisations which have denounced the Trump administration’s decision to rescind a program aimed at protecting young undocumented migrants from deportation. Introduced by President Barack Obama, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provided youth – brought to the US illegally as children before 2007 or were […]