In the US, new rule would allow foster care, adoption agencies to exclude on religious grounds
RNS The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would allow adoption, foster care agencies, and other social service providers receiving taxpayer funding from the Department of Health and Human Services to refuse to serve people based on religion, sexual orientation and gender identity. The rule essentially guts a 2016 provision enacted in the […]
US Protestant-only ministry changes course, opens its doors to Catholics
RNS In late May, Rev Jay Scott Newman received a visitor in his study at St Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenville, South Carolina. Reid Lehman, the CEO of Miracle Hill Ministries, sat down to tell the priest that Lehman’s evangelical agency, the largest provider of care to the needy in the Upstate – the 10-county […]
POSTCARDS: IN CALIFORNIA, FOSTER MOTHER OF MORE THAN 100 CHILDREN WORKS TO RECRUIT LATINO FAMILIES
HEATHER ADAMS, of Religion News Service, reports…
US: IN BATTLE OVER PROTESTANT-ONLY FOSTER CARE AGENCY, LAWSUIT ASKS “WHO IS A CHRISTIAN”?
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports…