adoption
Trump’s new HHS rule will harm far more people than you realize
By Maggie Siddiqi — November 14, 2019
(RNS) — This proposed rule allows this discrimination at a much larger scale. It invites discrimination against people of all faiths and no faith, against women and against LGBTQ people.
New rule would allow foster care, adoption agencies to exclude on religious grounds
By Yonat Shimron — November 1, 2019
(RNS) — Lifting the provision sets up a culture clash, pitting those who champion exemptions for faith-based charities against civil liberties groups who claim religious groups receiving government funding should not exclude anyone.
Husband of Christian blogger and father of 6 dies in beach accident
By Yonat Shimron — July 22, 2019
(RNS) — Lee Dingle was the husband of Shannon Hope Dingle, a blogger and activist who has written about sexual abuse, the #Churchtoo movement and disability rights.
US family discovers Chinese nuns who rescued adopted baby daughter
By Melanie Lidman — December 24, 2018
(Global Sisters Report) — Teagan is happily enjoying life in Chattanooga, Tennessee, doted on by her older siblings, and looking forward to her first Christmas in America.
Houses of worship helping solve foster care crisis in Oklahoma
By Bobby Ross Jr. — November 27, 2018
EDMOND, Okla. (RNS) — In the Bible Belt state, churches have become a crucial community partner with government officials to address a foster care crisis.
Catholic leaders use Religious Freedom Week to highlight social services
By Mark A. Kellner — June 21, 2018
(RNS) — Seeking to transcend ongoing debates over religious liberty and same-sex marriage, Catholic leaders refocus their Religious Freedom Week on serving others.
When adoption agencies can turn away gay prospective parents, what happens to the kids?
By Bobby Ross Jr. — March 23, 2018
OKLAHOMA CITY (RNS) — Those who study the issue say it's hard to tell exactly how such rules governing adoption affect the numbers of children placed in 'forever' homes.
Karen Handel and the spurious Christian case against LGBT adoption
By Jonathan Merritt — June 23, 2017
Does the Christian faith call believers to oppose LGBT couples from adopting children?
Italy OKs gay civil unions despite strong church opposition
By RNS staff — May 12, 2016
And still no one is happy. Conservatives say they'll push to cancel the law. Supports say, "This is just the beginning."
Judge halts Mississippi same-sex adoption ban
By USA Today Network — April 1, 2016
The order was issued the day after the state Senate passed a bill to allow businesses to deny services to LGBT people and let clerks deny marriage licenses for gay couples.
I’m radically pro-life, and not only when it’s on the cheap (COMMENTARY)
By Marcia Pally — November 17, 2015
(RNS) Laws limiting abortion don’t pay for sonograms or day care, and they don’t feed or educate children.
Michigan will let faith-based adoption agencies refuse gay couples
By Reuters — June 11, 2015
Half of Michigan's $20 million public budget for adoption agencies goes to faith-affiliated groups that would be covered under the religious objection laws.
This filmmaker set out to win Sundance and got ‘saved’ instead
By Jonathan Merritt — February 20, 2015
"When I started, I was using these people in Korea to fulfill my aspirations to go to Sundance, but I found something much great" says Brian Ivie, director of "The DropBox." His critically-acclaimed movie has made him a major player in a burgeoning faith film industry.
How adoption has forced evangelicals to grapple with race relations
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — December 22, 2014
(RNS) “People who previously assumed that racial prejudice was back in the Jim Crow era are awakened by it with their own kids," said Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore.
After Hobby Lobby, what’s next for religious freedom?
By Jonathan Merritt — June 30, 2014
Hobby Lobby won their fight against Obamacare's contraception mandate in a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling. But the struggle over the meaning and limits of religious liberty is far from over.
