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Adelle M. Banks

Adelle M. Banks is a national reporter for Religion News Service.

Faith groups get total of $92 million for innovative programs for children

Dozens of Christian groups seeking to instill faith in the nation’s children have been given grants of as much as $1.25 million to help them meet their mission....

July 19, 2023

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Ouster of Saddleback and Fern Creek from SBC over women pastors is affirmed

Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting affirmed a decision to expel two Southern Baptist churches, including Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, bec...

June 14, 2023

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More Americans pray in their car than in a place of worship, survey finds

Despite reports of declining worship attendance and ...

May 8, 2023

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Biden administration seeks to rescind Trump-era rule about faith on campus

Does a Trump-era rule protect religious belief of students at public colleges and universities or cause discrimination against...

March 6, 2023

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Docuseries on Black church highlights history, links to biblical orthodoxy

A new docuseries featuring Black clergy and scholars aims to explore the resilience of the Black church and highlight how many...

February 13, 2023

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Prayers and promises of reform at Tyre Nichols's funeral

Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man fatally beaten by police officers after a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, was mour...

February 6, 2023

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Tyre Nichols police beating video prompts faith leaders to react with grief, goals

Religious leaders reacted swiftly—with legislative appeals and collective grief—to the release of video footage of police offi...

January 30, 2023

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After Roe, 50th March for Life a turning point for abortion protests

Frank Pavone, an anti-abortion activist who was until recently a Catholic priest, addressed a small crowd outside a Planned Pa...

January 23, 2023

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New Congress has much higher percentage of Christians than US public

The religious makeup of the new Congress bucks the trends seen in American religious life, a new...

January 4, 2023

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Calvin Butts, leader of Harlem’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, dies at 73

Calvin O....

October 30, 2022

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Faith groups focused on multiracial, multifaith voter protection ahead of midterms

Two years ago on Election Day, Lee May, pastor of Transforming Faith Church, a predominantly Black congregation in Stonecrest,...

October 28, 2022

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Jonathan Lee Walton named next president of Princeton Seminary

Jonathan Lee Walton, an academician, preacher, and administrator who has served on the faculties of Wake Forest and Harvard di...

October 17, 2022

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As monkeypox spreads, faith networks mobilize to fight stigma

Faith leaders from a range of religions are teaming up with World Health Organization officials to help prevent monkeypox as outbreaks of the disease occur across the globe....

August 8, 2022

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Ron Sider, evangelical activist, dies at 82

Ron Sider, an author, seminary professor and evangelical social justice activist, has died, according to an online update from...

July 29, 2022

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Faith leaders attend celebration of gun control law

Faith leaders from a wide range of traditions, including those whose houses of worship have been attacked, were at the White House on July 11 as members of Congress and other gun control advocates ...

July 25, 2022

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AME Church alleges former retirement services exec embezzled tens of millions

The African Methodist Episcopal Church has sued a former executive who oversaw its pension plan’s investment portfolio, charging that he and others embezzled money and defrauded AME clergy and chur...

June 13, 2022