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 groups weigh the impact of abortion on the polls
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports that there is growing uncertainty surrounding how religious voters and others will engage with abortion policy as they head to the polls in the US midterms next month…
Roe v Wade overturned: For the religious right, a victory 50 years in the making
YONAT SHIMRON and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, report on how a mighty coalition comprising mostly conservative Catholics, evangelical Christians and Mormons grounded its theological aims in the language of human rights and played its politics unrelentingly…
Updated: Faith leaders, including Trump allies, condemn Capitol riot
Updated: 3pm (AEDT)Washington DC, USAP Religious leaders across the political spectrum, including several staunch supporters of President Donald Trump, strongly condemned the storming of the US Capitol by pro-Trump rioters. The violence “is an assault on democracy and representative government”, tweeted Ralph Reed, a longtime political conservative strategist who heads the Faith and Freedom Coalition. […]
Trump’s evangelical advisers back voting challenges but stop short of alleging fraud
Washington DC, USRNS President Donald Trump’s evangelical advisers are backing his challenges to the results of the 2020 election, though most stop short of joining the President’s effort to declare victory despite President-elect Joe Biden’s substantial leads in key swing states. Ralph Reed, head of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, echoed Senate Majority Leader Mitch […]
US election: Evangelicals stick with Trump, see upside even if he loses
ELANA SCHOR and DAVID CRARY, of the Associated Press, report on how US evangelicals are responding to this week’s election…
Trump, rabbi of attacked synagogue observe National Day of Prayer at White House
Washington, DCRNS Among the guests at a White House ceremony marking the National Day of Prayer was Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, leader of the California synagogue recently attacked by a gunman. Goldstein marvelled that he survived the attack. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein speaks in front of President Trump during a National Day of Prayer event in the White […]
US: WHITE HOUSE HOSTS DINNER TO HONOUR EVANGELICALS “FOR ALL THE GOOD WORK THEY DO”
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, report on this week’s White House gathering of US evangelicals…