While the Roman Catholic world digests a Vatican letter confirming the church’s prohibition on gluten-free wafers, Protestant churches continue to place orders for a Eucharist that won’t bother the gluten-intolerant.
Read More »No major US religious groups approve refusing service to gays
In no U.S. religious group does a majority think it’s acceptable for businesspeople to invoke their religious beliefs to refuse service to gays.
Read More »Trump: ‘It’s time to put a stop to attacks on religion’
WASHINGTON (RNS) President Trump told his political base of evangelical Christians that he would continue to restore the religious liberty many of them feel they’ve lost.
Read More »Jehovah’s Witnesses fear Russian government may ban them
Russia’s Supreme Court will soon decide whether to label Jehovah’s Witnesses as an extremist group, a designation members of the faith fear would lead to the shuttering of their more than 2,300 congregations in that country.
Read More »167 House members ask Trump to retain ambassador to combat anti-Semitism
Following a report that President Trump is thinking of scrapping the ambassador position assigned to combat global anti-Semitism, a bipartisan group of 167 U.S. House members sent a letter asking him to appoint one soon.
Read More »Faith groups: new immigration order still anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant
Federal judges may find the President Donald Trump’s new executive order on immigration more acceptable than the last. But many religious groups and faith leaders see no meaningful difference in the new measure, which Trump signed privately Monday (March 6).
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