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Faith-based organizations concerned about immigration policy landscape
By Aleja Hertzler-McCain — February 8, 2024
(RNS) — ‘You’re not going to solve anything at the border when you start from the premise that migration is a threat to our country or that migrants are people to be feared,’ said Dylan Corbett, executive director of Hope Border Institute.
From Senate subcommittee to Easter sermon: Raphael Warnock on life as a pastor-politician
By Adelle M. Banks — March 31, 2023
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘My life is a sermon, that I get to preach on Sunday and embody and make come alive in my work in the Senate,’ said the Georgia senator.
Why the LDS and Catholic churches parted ways on the Respect for Marriage Act
By Mark Silk — December 12, 2022
(RNS) — They understand the world, and their place in it, differently.
Native American leaders push for boarding school commission
By Susan Montoya Bryan — June 23, 2022
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The dark history of Native American boarding schools — where children were prohibited from speaking their languages and often abused — has been felt deeply across Indian Country and through generations.
Raphael Warnock says his Senate colleagues sometimes ask, ‘Rev, pray for me’
By Adelle M. Banks — June 14, 2022
(RNS) — ‘I enjoyed being a pastor, and, in my heart, that’s who I am essentially — not only a pastor but the son of two pastors.’
6 candidates for US Senate in Ohio vie for evangelical votes
By Julie Carr Smyth — October 25, 2021
WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The lone Republican moderate at a U.S. Senate candidate forum in Ohio on Sunday said at one point he felt “like a Browns fan in Pittsburgh Stadium.” The crowd of about 950 at the evangelical Genoa Baptist Church in the northern suburbs of Columbus never quite booed Matt Dolan, a state […]
Zahid Quraishi confirmed as first Muslim federal judge
By Joseph Hammond — June 11, 2021
(RNS) — The US Army veteran has been assigned to a federal district court in New Jersey.
Time for some good news for the poor
By Jim Wallis — March 9, 2021
(RNS) — The American Recovery Plan is 'good news for the poor' in the midst of a global pandemic — which should cheer Christians in both parties.
The Rev. Raphael Warnock sworn in with two others as new senator
By Adelle M. Banks — January 20, 2021
(RNS) — Warnock was sworn in with Georgia’s second new senator, Jon Ossoff, who is the state’s first Jewish senator, and Alex Padilla, California’s first Latino senator.
Warnock makes history with Senate win as Dems near majority
By Steve Peoples, Bill Barrow, and Russ Bynum — January 6, 2021
ATLANTA (AP) — A pastor who spent the past 15 years leading the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached, Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler.
Warnock, pastor and politician, has role models who did both
By Adelle M. Banks — January 5, 2021
(RNS) — It would not be the first time an ordained member of the clergy has chosen to take on the political life of Capitol.
Rev. Raphael Warnock considers vote sacred as pastor and Senate candidate
By Adelle M. Banks — November 13, 2020
(RNS) — Warnock is promoting his plans to address issues of the poor that he recalls from his days growing up as the 11th of 12 children of Pentecostal preachers in public housing in Savannah.
Ebenezer pastor Raphael Warnock enters US Senate race
By Ben Nadler — January 30, 2020
ATLANTA (AP) — With his influential pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Warnock immediately brings some Democratic star power to the race — and some powerful friends.
Equality Act vote again pits Catholic nuns against bishops
By Thomas Reese — May 20, 2019
(RNS) — What's different this time around is that the nuns are divided, with some sisters objecting that the Equality Act could force Catholic hospitals to perform services that they consider immoral.
Innocent or not, Kavanaugh runs up the cost of evangelicals’ GOP tie
By Jacob Lupfer — September 27, 2018
(RNS) — The pair are a fitting personification of the troubled relationship between conservative Christians and Republican politics.
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