President Barack Obama
Aide shares the Bible devotionals he sent to President Obama each morning
By Adelle M. Banks — October 21, 2013
(RNS) Joshua DuBois continues to send devotional messages to President Obama every morning, even though he stepped down in February as director of Obama's Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Suzan Johnson Cook to resign as religious freedom ambassador
By Lauren Markoe — October 16, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) During her on-again off-again nomination battle, Suzan Johnson Cook likened herself to the "Iron Lady," former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "Change the name. It's mine now."
COMMENTARY: Islamist suppression could reach U.S. shores
By Christopher S. Taylor — August 16, 2013
(RNS) History suggests that when Egypt’s military suppresses its Islamist opponents, it has serious repercussions for the United States.
Lawmakers ask Obama for religious diversity summit
By Omar Sacirbey — July 17, 2013
(RNS) The letter comes just ahead of the first anniversary of the Aug. 5 attack by a white supremacist on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., that killed six worshippers.
Joel Hunter pays a price for political activism
By Mark I. Pinsky — July 7, 2013
(RNS) Over the past decade, Hunter and a cohort of younger, evangelical leaders have called on others to lower their voices and shift the political center of gravity from the far right to the pragmatic center-right. Ten percent of his church members left.
African religious leaders reject Obama’s call to decriminalize homosexuality
By Fredrick Nzwili — July 5, 2013
(RNS) Some clerics said Obama’s statements on gays spoiled the welcome religious leaders and their followers could have accorded the first African-American president.
White House says it can’t list Westboro Baptist as ‘hate group’
By Corrie Mitchell — July 3, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) Support for White House petitions to label anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church as a "hate group" was strongest in Kansas and Newtown, Conn., according to data provided by the White House.
Video: President Obama calls for end to mental illness stigma
By Sally Morrow — June 3, 2013
President Obama says he is convening a conference on mental illness to bring the issue “out of the shadows.” Obama spoke Monday (June 3) at the opening of the daylong White House conference, which included faith leaders, mental health advocates and members of Congress.
Morehouse College to allow pastor who rapped Obama to speak
By Aamer Madhani — May 16, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) Morehouse College announced on Wednesday (May 15) that a critic of President Obama will deliver a baccalaureate sermon as part of graduation festivities this weekend after all.
ANALYSIS: Will the Kermit Gosnell verdict change the abortion debate?
By David Gibson — May 14, 2013
(RNS) When rogue abortionist Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of delivering and then killing late-term infants, abortion opponents were convinced they had a case that could finally reshape a static abortion debate. Yet for a variety of reasons, those prayers for a game-changing impact may go unanswered.
COMMENTARY: President Obama, Mourner in Chief
By Tom Ehrich — April 30, 2013
(RNS) The searing experience of being an effective "Mourner in Chief" might stir President Obama's appetite for political battle. I certainly hope so. Because the people need an advocate.
Obama praises Boston for overcoming the ‘face of evil’
By Caleb K. Bell — April 18, 2013
President Obama praised Bostonians for standing up "in the face of evil" at an interfaith prayer service following Monday's Boston Marathon bombing.
Live: Obama at interfaith service for victims of Boston bombing
By Daniel Burke — April 18, 2013
Watch President Obama at the interfaith service for victims of the Boston bombing.
White House: Philly abortion trial is ‘unsettling’
By Aamer Madhani — April 16, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) "Certainly, the things that you hear and read about this case are unsettling," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said about the grizzly details emerging from the trial of Philadelphia abortion provider Kermit Gosnell.
Photo Gallery: Easter prayer breakfast at the White House
By Adelle M. Banks — April 6, 2013
A who's who of Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox leaders joined President Obama in the East Room of the White House Friday (April 5) for the Easter Prayer Breakfast.
