During Trump’s first term, Church World Service tracked more than 800 churches willing to offer sanctuary. From 2017 through 2020, there were at least 70 public cases of immigrants taking ...

The Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council (FRC) released its annual Hostility Against Churches report last week, finding there were 436 hostile incidents against churches in 2023. This is ...

(RNS) — For years, conservative legal groups have argued that an IRS rule barring churches from endorsing candidates was unconstitutional. Now the IRS agrees. In a court filing, the IRS said the ...

The IRS reversed decades of legal precedent in a July 7 court filing by saying that churches and other religious 501c (3) organizations can endorse political candidates in certain circumstances ...

National Churches have a long history of being safe havens — for immigrants and others January 26, 20256:03 AM ET By Bill Chappell ...

In the September 2022 survey, 31% of adults said churches and other houses of worship should express their views on day-to-day social and political questions. (This was considerably higher than the 20 ...

In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, America was losing as many as 1,000 churches a year. Some former churches are being converted for businesses or residential use. One old Methodist church in ...