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Jack Jenkins

Jack Jenkins is a national reporter for Religion News Service.

Environmental faith groups laud Pope Francis's new climate exhortation

Catholic organizations and other faith-based groups pushing for global action on climate change are celebrating Pope Francis’s new apostolic exhortation on the environment, a sequel of sorts to his...

October 6, 2023

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Expelled Tennessee lawmakers find support among clergy

The last time Tennessee legislators tried to make the Bible the state’s official book, a pastor warned them to be careful what...

April 10, 2023

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State lawmakers push for priests to report abuse learned about in confessional

Catholic leaders are pushing back against efforts to alter state laws that exempt clergy from reporting child abuse they hear ...

March 15, 2023

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LCMS president calls for excommunicating White nationalists

The president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has called for the excommunication of unrepentant White supremacists in th...

February 23, 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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William Barber launches new center at Yale, will retire from church

Yale Divinity School is launching a new Center for Public Theology and Public Policy, an advocacy-focused body to be led by pr...

December 20, 2022

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Diverse coalition of faith leaders advocate for expanded child tax credit

Faith leaders joined members of Congress on Capitol Hill Thursday to voice support for the expansion of the child tax credit, ...

December 19, 2022

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MacKenzie Scott gives $15 million to Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

Novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has awarded Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service $15 million in donation funds...

November 16, 2022

In new ad, DeSantis paves way to replace Trump as 'anointed one'

In an advertisement unveiled November 4 on the Twit...

November 9, 2022

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Poll: Nearly half of US wants a Christian nation

Forty-five percent of Americans believe the US should be a “Christian nation,” one of several striking findings from a sweepin...

October 27, 2022

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WCC head meets with Patriarch Kirill

The acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches met this week with Patriarch Kirill, the Russian Orthodox Church...

October 21, 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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Faith groups gather at Supreme Court after leak

Jamie Manson, head of Catholics for Choice, was watching Netflix when Politico published US Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion arguing for overturning Roe v....

May 16, 2022

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Muslims and Jews worried about Twitter under Musk

Muslim and Jewish organizations are expressing concern about billionaire Elon Musk’s impending ownership of Twitter, warning that the aerospace tycoon could roll back moderation policies and unleas...

May 16, 2022

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Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks about faith

Immediately after President Joe Biden introduced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the US Supreme Court on February 25, the federal appeals court judge stepped up to the podium and appe...

March 7, 2022

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