Pat Robertson, US broadcaster who helped make religion central to Republican politics, dies at 93
Virginia Beach, Virginia, USAP Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93. Robertson’s death Thursday was announced by his broadcasting network. […]
Dede Robertson, wife of US religious broadcaster, dies at 94
Norfolk, Virginia, USAP Dede Robertson, the wife of religious broadcaster Pat Robertson and a founding board member of the Christian Broadcasting Network, died Tuesday at her home in Virginia Beach, the network said in a statement. Robertson was 94. The statement did not provide her cause of death. Former Republican presidential hopeful Pat Robertson gives […]
Russia-Ukraine war: In the US, some pastors wonder about “end of days”
DAVID CRARY, of Associated Press, reports on how some pastors in the US are seeing connections between the Ukraine conflict and Biblical prophecy and why that troubles some Christian scholars…
Pat Robertson steps down as host of long-running ‘700 Club’
Norfolk, VirginiaAP Pat Robertson, who turned a tiny Virginia television station into a global religious broadcasting network, is stepping down after a half-century running the 700 Club on daily TV, the Christian Broadcasting Network announced on Friday. Robertson, 91, said in a statement that he hosted the network’s flagship program for the last time on […]
Essay: Amid calls to #TaxTheChurches – what and how much do US religious organisations not pay the taxman?
In an article first published on The Conversation, RYAN CRAGUN, a professor of sociology at the University of Tampa, looks at the issue of tax exemptions for churches in the US…
ESSAY: PAULA WHITE AND THE MAINSTREAMING OF AMERICAN PENTECOSTALISM
In an article first published on Sightings – a publication of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School, DANIEL G HUMMEL looks at the rise of Pentecostalism in the US…
SYRIA: CHRISTIAN AID GROUPS VOW TO STAY TO HELP DESPITE SUDDEN US WITHDRAWAL
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports…
Churches body calls for an end to violence in Syria as Turkish operation gains pace
The World Council of Churches has condemned the violence in Syria after the Turkish military launched an operation in the country’s north-east this week. Tens of thousands of people have reportedly fled their homes amid fears of a humanitarian disaster and renewed attacks by terror group, the so-called Islamic State, in the area of conflict. […]
Rabbi with a gift for fundraising among evangelicals mourned as friend
RNS Soon after Southern Baptist leader Bailey Smith famously said “God Almighty doesn’t hear the prayers of a Jew”, he got a call from a US-based Orthodox rabbi challenging Smith to join him on a trip to Israel. That rabbi on the line was Yechiel Eckstein, who single-handedly worked to develop deeper ties between evangelical […]
ESSAY: THE QUIET, STEELY FAITH OF GEORGE HW BUSH
Author STEPHEN MANSFIELD, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reflects on the faith of former US President George HW Bush…