Church and State Issues in the News

EVERETT, WA— The Christian Employers Alliance (CEA) has won a major religious freedom victory on behalf of its current and future members. The United ...

As Louisiana students gather supplies and class schedules for a new school year, administrators are ensuring legally mandated "In God We Trust" signs are ...

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is facing criticism after he used a Proverbs bible verse during Tuesday's Democratic primary debate. Buttigieg ...

Former Vice President Joe Biden told a Democratic presidential debate audience Wednesday night that he would work to ensure taxpayer funding for abortion if ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Dr. Ben Carson, the U.S. Housing & Urban Development Secretary, was in Baltimore Wednesday to talk about opportunity zones and ...

More than 500 congregations have joined the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the past seven months after leaving the Russian-affiliated Church.

An attorney from the Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a letter of complaint to the DeKalb County Schools superintendent complaining that Fyffe High ...

The head of Founders Ministries has responded to the backlash he received after the organization released a controversial trailer last week for its upcoming ...

So who was the big winner? Everyone who didn't watch.

A recent article by a creationist hack for the National Review (the flagship conservative publication) preposterously argues that Canada is stifling religious ...

In a sign of evangelical voters' importance to his campaign, the U.S. president is sending five senior advisers to a Christian pro-Israel gathering.

This week marks 100 years since Congress passed the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote. Passed in the wake of a ...

For centuries, the Catholic Church has maintained that what a penitent says to a priest in the confessional is strictly confidential, but in 2019 that rite continues to ...

1. Where we are now: Christian pastor compelled to defend prayer for Trump
   Washington Examiner
2. ‘My aim was in no way to endorse the president’: Pastor explains why he prayed for Trump
   The Washington Post
3. On Praying for the President
   The Atlantic
4. Virginia pastor explains prayer for Trump after some 'hurt' by it
   Fox News
5. Virginia pastor explains sudden decision to pray for Trump, after some 'hurt' by it
   USA TODAY
6. View full coverage on Google News

Catholic Church Spent More Than $633K Lobbying in New Jersey, Focused on Thwarting Legislation that Would Aid Clergy Abuse Survivors. Church has spent ...

President Trump surprised the McLean Bible Church congregation during a "special day of prayer for the President," June 2. Minister David Platt led the prayer. When David Platt concluded his sermon during an afternoon service at McLean Bible Church in Northern Virginia on Sunday, the pastor thought he would have a few minutes to himself for quiet reflection. Instead, he was whisked backstage and given a message: “the president of the United States was on his way to the church, would be there in a matter of minutes, and would like for us to pray for him." Unlike other pastors who have fierce...

The attorney general's office is working around the clock in its review of thousands of pages of information seized from Michigan's Catholic dioceses.

American Jews are more likely than American Christians to think that President Donald Trump's policies are too favorable to Israel, according to a recent poll by ...

A New Jersey attorney says he has a list of more than 300 priests accused of sexual misconduct in New Jersey -- far more than the 188 priests the Catholic ...

Vice President Mike Pence gave remarks at a church in Louisiana that was recently the victim of arson, stating that “these attacks on communities of faith must ...

Evangelicals, who were crucial to President Donald Trump's election, are pleased thus far with their White House ally, prominent leaders say.

Conservative and Christian colleges and universities are landing more interns inside the Trump White House and administration after an 8-year dry spell during ...

Despite Europe's increasing secularization, most residents of six European countries studied by the Pew Research Center continue to pay a tax designated for ...

President Donald Trump said that his administration was making religious freedom a priority, including helping to have people once again say “God” and “Merry ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday he leaned on one thing to get through special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 ...