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Inspired by nuns, conservative, progressive evangelicals hop on the bus

Values Bus

RNS It all started with some nuns on a bus. Now, with midterm elections coming up next month, more faith-based organisations are hitting the road to energise religious voters. They include Vote Common Good, which is reaching out to progressive evangelicals, and the Family Research Council’s Values Bus, reaching out to conservative evangelicals. Attendees sign […]

Pompeo: US “sparing no effort” for return of pastor detained in Turkey

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Washington, DC RNS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reiterated Trump administration promises to continue to work for the release of American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been held in Turkey for almost two years. “We are sparing no effort to return Pastor Brunson home to the United States,” Pompeo said on Friday at the […]

Tony Perkins appointed to US panel on international religious freedom

RNS Tony Perkins, the head of the conservative Christian lobbying group Family Research Council, has been appointed to a US Government commission dedicated to “defending the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad”. On Monday, the Congressional Record revealed that Mr Perkins had been appointed to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom on the […]