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Trump team exploring possible Pope Francis meeting
By David Jackson — April 19, 2017
WASHINGTON (USA Today) While it is not unusual for presidents to meet with popes — the last 11 have done so — there is some political history between Trump and Francis.
Religious assessments of Trump v. Obama
By Mark Silk — April 18, 2017
It's not all about white evangelicals.
In unusual omission, no Trump-pope meeting planned during Italy G-7
By Jerome Socolovsky — April 11, 2017
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) Trump, who Francis suggested was "not Christian" if he wanted a wall on the Mexican border, is due in Sicily on May 26-27 for a meeting of the heads of the world's richest nations.
Survey: Evangelical leaders really don’t want to endorse politicians
By David Gibson — March 30, 2017
(RNS) Donald Trump vowed to change the law so clergy could promote candidates from the pulpit. Nine in 10 don't seem to want to.
Vatican says Trump risks losing climate change leadership to China
By David Gibson — March 30, 2017
ROME (Reuters) Pope Francis has made defense of the environment a key plank of his papacy, strongly backing scientific opinion that global warming is caused mostly by human activity.
At US Capitol, Christians protest budget cuts
By Lauren Markoe — March 29, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) Wearing sackcloth and ashes, the group pitched a wooden cross on the grass and prayed for the nation's vulnerable.
Is Trump’s Supreme Court nominee an abortion foe’s dream – or nightmare?
By David Gibson — March 29, 2017
(RNS) Neil Gorsuch was expected to fulfill the president’s promise to name a justice who would overturn Roe v. Wade. But after Gorsuch’s Senate testimony, some abortion foes are worried.
Lutheran refugee agency is ‘cautiously hopeful’ following blocked immigration order
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 27, 2017
CHICAGO (RNS) President Trump's executive order would have more than halved the number of refugees accepted by the United States from the current ceiling of 110,000.
Mexicans who help build Trump wall are ‘traitors,’ top archdiocese says
By Dave Graham — March 27, 2017
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) The Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico turned up the heat on a simmering dispute over President Trump's pet project.
Russell Moore faces a challenging road ahead
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 24, 2017
(RNS) Although his apology for being 'unnecessarily harsh' toward Trump supporters was accepted by the Southern Baptist Convention's top brass, the public voice of America's largest denomination still faces a groundswell of grass-roots discontent.
Neil Gorsuch’s own faith is a poor predictor of how he would judge religious issues
By Steven K. Green — March 22, 2017
(The Conversation) In most instances, a justice’s religious faith has been a poor predictor of his or her judicial philosophy.
Trump to speak at Liberty University commencement
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 22, 2017
(RNS) Trump 'is again showing that he has not forgotten evangelicals since he's been president,' said David Brody, breaking the news Wednesday morning on the Christian Broadcasting Network.
In ‘turbulent times,’ 500 rabbis look for ways to resist and cope
By Lauren Markoe — March 20, 2017
(RNS) In his first few weeks in office, President Trump administration has given progressive-minded rabbis much to resist and counter, and it's exhausting, said one rabbi attending the Central Council of American Rabbis meeting in Atlanta.
Trump’s budget slashes aid to the poor. Would Jesus have a problem with that?
By David Gibson — March 20, 2017
(RNS) The sharp debate that broke out among believers suggests that any Christian rationale for the nation’s social safety net depends on how you translate a single Greek word in the Gospel of Matthew.
How a Christian movement is growing rapidly in the midst of religious decline
By Brad Christerson — March 18, 2017
(The Conversation) INC Christianity is the fastest-growing Christian group in America and possibly around the world. So what is it?
