Evangelicals

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: The Reformation's 500th anniversary; call-out on lies about Israel; Archbishop González's plea for Puerto Rico gets a boost from Lin-Manuel.

Distinctly Catholic: The Family Research Council's annual event for conservatives had, for the first time, a sitting president at the podium, and what also was different about this year's summit was the openness with which the participants revealed their sympathy for ethnic nationalism. 

A group of evangelicals has written a letter to President Trump calling on him to do more to condemn white supremacists.

Nashville, Tenn. -- Paula White, President Trump's most prominent spiritual adviser, told a crowd of journalists at the Religion News Association's annual conference that she is certain President Trump is not a racist and that he "understands ... repentance."

Evangelical leaders who have met with Trump administration officials say they talk about a range of policy issues when they visit the White House.

After being elected president with 81 percent of the white evangelical vote, Trump retains unprecedented ties with a group of conservative Christian religious leaders.