Jack Jenkins

At one demonstration, faith leaders spread out in front of the line of officers, held hands and occasionally burst into song.

"The Jesus I know never charged a leper a co-pay," said the Rev. William Barber II, president of Repairers of the Breach.

Faith groups say thousands remain locked in limbo as the administration drags its feet.

Leo is unlikely to match perfectly the positions of either American political party and will disappoint many as he runs a church that operates far outside of any local political faction. But he knows the U.S. political culture more intimately than any other pope in history — knowledge that may prove useful, as he is unlikely to escape politics altogether.

A student at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., has had their visa revoked by the federal government, adding a Catholic school founded by U.S. bishops to the growing list of colleges where international students have had their visas revoked by President Donald Trump's administration.

A federal judge has denied a request by the Trump administration to reconsider a ruling in a lawsuit brought by faith-based refugee resettlement agencies, ordering the government to begin immediately processing and admitting refugees who were conditionally approved before Jan 20.

A new report co-authored by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops found that Catholics make up 61% of those potentially at risk of deportation.

A multistate effort is spitting out legislation and lawsuits aimed at testing the Supreme Court justices’ commitment to Obergefell v. Hodges.

At a meeting that took place Feb. 28, Peter Marocco, the deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and a group of mostly evangelical Christian humanitarian aid groups discussed the administration's dismantling of USAID and its 90-day freeze on foreign aid funding.

Speaking during an emergency hearing Tuesday in Seattle, U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead agreed with a suggestion by lawyers representing faith-based refugee resettlement organizations that the government produce a "status report" regarding an injunction issued last week that should have restarted the refugee admissions program.

The speech came as the Trump administration, just 2 weeks old, is already facing lawsuits arguing that it violated the religious freedom of Christians in the U.S.

 "The people who are in danger are the people who fear for their lives and their livelihoods," Budde said in an interview. "That’s where the focus should be."

President Donald Trump attended the inaugural prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral Tuesday morning (Jan. 21), finishing off the festivities marking the beginning of his second term with an interfaith service filled with prayers and hymns — and a sermon that offered a religious challenge to his administration’s stated goals.

Trump’s top-level nominees for his second administration include pastors, Catholic converts and one who owes his spiritual rebirth to a book by a Swiss psychiatrist.

Conservative Christians have long celebrated what they see as the landmark successes of Trump’s first term, particularly his appointment of three conservative justices to the Supreme Court and their overturning of Roe v. Wade to end nationwide abortion access. This time, however, evangelical advisers of Trump say they are hoping for more — although exactly what form those policies will take appears to be the subject of debate.

Trump has made inroads into the Latino community's solid support for Democratic candidates, but remarks made at a rally at Madison Square Garden may cause some to rethink.

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance took the stage at Christian nationalist preacher Lance Wallnau‘s election-season revival tour on Saturday (Sept. 28), using the setting to make a theological defense of the GOP campaign’s controversial immigration policies and to appeal to Wallnau’s  conservative Christian crowd in a hotly contested swing state.

Leaders and writers from mainline Christian denominations, the Catholic and Greek Orthodox church, as well as Black Protestant and evangelical Christianity, signed the letter, which describes democracy as a "moral affirmation" and urges Christians to repudiate "anti-democratic sentiment" — namely, ideologies such as Christian nationalism and racism. 

A group of evangelical Christians hoping to reclaim their tradition from the culture wars put out a call Monday (Sept. 9) for a broader understanding of evangelicalism urging a rejection of "political idolatry and its messengers" as well as the "false idols of power, wealth, and strength rather than the true God."