VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the week leading up to the third annual World Day of the Poor, St. Peter’s Square is a snapshot of Francis’ agenda of a ‘poor Church for the poor,’ as homeless and impoverished people find medical help and a welcoming and warm respite in the cold weather leading up to the holidays.

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WASHINGTON — Following the first-ever global report on the widespread lack of water, toilets, and hygiene inside hospitals and health clinics, leaders from the world’s largest Faith-Based Organizations (FBO) assembled this week for a historic meeting to address this fundamental threat to global health. FBOs are the leading providers of healthcare in the developing world, […]

  The six new female synod bishops-elect of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America    

Health sharing ministries don't actually offer insurance. But for many people, the plans are more affordable than Obamacare, and they're growing fast.

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Disregarding underlying medical issues, some religious figures perform exorcisms and cause lasting psychological damage or worse.

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The Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, after reviewing the proposed American Healthcare Act, and upon release of the review of the proposal by the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office, strongly opposes passage of the American Health Care Act.

The Affordable Care Act put Christian insurance alternatives on the map. What happens to them when it goes away?

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A recent Pew Research Center study found that 72 percent of Americans feel that religion is losing its influence on U.S. life and that this is a bad thing. But many Americans are bucking this trend and mixing faith with their healthcare needs. Medi-Share, a healthcare sharing program that aligns with the Christian faith and offers members […]

You’ve got your Mainline Protestants, your African-Americans, your Catholics, your Jews, your Muslims, your Hindu women. But nary a representative of a mainstream white or Latino evangelical body–be it the National Association of Evangelicals or the Southern Baptist Convention or the Assemblies of God or the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. The total evangelical presence […]

WASHINGTON — It’s wedding cake season, but at one Minnesota bakery, the boss has left the building to attend to other business. Lynn Schurman struggles to provide health care for her 65 employees at Cold Spring Bakery and she wants Congress to know about it. So even with 23 tiered cakes on order for weekend […]