Emily McFarlan Miller

A delegation of conservative evangelical Christian leaders from the United States met Nov. 1 with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who is under fire after the death of a journalist in his country's consulate in Istanbul.

The White House hosted a dinner Aug. 27 for about 100 evangelical Christian leaders and senior-level officials, honoring evangelicals, as one participant explained, "for all the good work they do."

In recent years, a number of mainline Protestant Christian denominations have passed resolutions repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery. Now they're considering how to act on those denunciations.

Pope Francis condemned the abuse as a crime and called the church to solidarity with its victims in a statement some following the Catholic Church's clergy sexual abuse crisis called "the boldest we have heard from the Vatican" and others, "too little, too late."

Fewer adults are attending religious services in the United States, but not necessarily because they don't believe. Many cite practical or personal reasons for skipping weekly services, according to new Pew Research Center data.

Russia dominated the discussion on a conference call with reporters and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo July 19 about next week's meeting on international religious freedom.

Documents filed with the United Methodist Church's top court are shedding first light on specifics of long-awaited proposals to avoid schism in the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States.

It may be a law of nature: President Trump tweets something about Islam. Anti-Muslim hate crimes follow. That's according to a working paper by two researchers from the University of Warwick.

President Trump announced on Monday (July 9) that Brett Kavanaugh, 53, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is his Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his retirement late last month.

When White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked last week about widespread religious pushback to the Trump administration’s "zero-tolerance" policy separating families along the U.S.-Mexico border, she turned the responsibility back on people of faith.

A social media network is now acknowledging it needs to do more to prevent the spread of hate speech that contributed to a campaign to drive out Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority.

More than 600 United Methodist clergy and laypeople have signed a formal denominational complaint against fellow United Methodist Attorney General Jeff Sessions, condemning his role in the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy of separating children from their parents along the U.S.-Mexico border. 

At a dinner last year with prominent evangelical Christians in the Blue Room of the White House, Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, invited their table mates to discuss the issues most important to them.

About 50 evangelical Christian leaders gathered to discuss the future of evangelicalism amid concerns their movement has become too closely associated with President Trump.

For Catholics, a talk about Jesus doesn't seem controversial.

Trump administration officials said in late January they would once again allow refugees from countries included in the bans — which have accounted for more than 40 percent of refugee admissions over the last three years, according to State Department data — so long as the newcomers undergo additional vetting.

More than 140 evangelical Christian women from across the political and theological spectrums have signed onto a statement calling churches to end the silence around violence against women and the church's participation in it.

President Trump has signed presidential proclamations to shrink two Utah national monuments in a move that Native American tribal leaders, clergy, environmentalists and other opponents have described as the largest elimination of protective status for land in American history.

In 2007, the unthinkable happened at New Life Church in Colorado Springs.  A gunman opened fire outside the church, just as its midday service had dismissed. 

Churches would gain the right to endorse political candidates and still retain their tax-free status under a provision in House Republicans' tax overhaul plan.