Demonstrators rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) outside the Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, in Washington. Democrats have been seeking a deal to protect the “Dreamers,” who have been shielded against deportation by DACA, which President Donald Trump halted last year. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Need to know: Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Billy Graham should not lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda
"The cause that Graham served with longevity and distinction is evangelical Protestantism, not the United States of America," writes Jacob Lupfer.
Today I plan to get arrested
The Rev. Thomas Reese, a Religion News Service columnist, is prepared to get arrested today on Capitol Hill as he participates in the National Catholic Day of Action with Dreamers.
Anti-Semitic incidents soar by 57 percent in 2017
The Anti-Defamation League is reporting a 57 percent increase in the U.S. last year, the highest tally that the Jewish civil rights group has counted in more than two decades.
Battle over religion in public schools waged in one of America’s fastest-growing cities
The McKinney, Texas, school district has ended a decade-plus practice of holding commencement ceremonies at a megachurch run by one of President Trump's evangelical advisors.
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Vatican, Versace and Vogue team up for Met’s spring exhibit
ROME (AP) — The Vatican's culture minister joined Donatella Versace and Vogue's Anna Wintour for a sneak peek of the gorgeous Vatican liturgical vestments, jeweled miters and papal tiaras that will star in a spring exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Christians shutter famous Jerusalem church to protest taxes
The Christians in charge of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are angry about the Jerusalem municipality’s plans to tax their various assets around the city.
Prayer and a packing pastor: A church’s response to mass shooting
In Sutherland Springs, Texas, members of First Baptist Church aren’t protesting like the Florida high school students are.
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How Billy Graham changed religion in America
The movement Graham led out of the wilderness has been taken over by the very forces he rebelled against, writes RNS columnist Mark Silk.
New revelations in Phyllis Tickle biography
Jon Sweeney's new biography of Phyllis Tickle has some new revelations about the life and marriage of one of our era's most beloved Christian writers.
I have no doubt what Billy Graham would have told the high school kids from Parkland, Fla.
(RNS) — The teens speaking out about gun control these days are amazingly articulate about being young in an America where violence is all too present as a fact of life. What would Graham have said to them? Keep at it!
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