President in the pews: DC churches offer Biden options

WILL WEISSERT and ELANA SCHOR, of Associated Press, report on where President-elect Joe Biden might attend church when he takes office in January…
US Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde appeals to ‘better angels’ in Democratic convention prayer

Washington DC, US RNS The Rt Rev Mariann Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington who criticised President Donald Trump after he held a Bible aloft during a photo op in front St John’s Church near the White House in June, focused her prayer for the Democratic National Convention Tuesday evening on a Christian appeal to […]
US general says he was wrong to accompany Trump on church walk

Washington DC, US AP US Army General Mark Milley, the nation’s top military officer, said Thursday he was wrong to accompany President Donald Trump on a walk through Lafayette Square that ended in a photo op at a church. He said his presence in uniform amid protests over racial injustice “created a perception of the […]
Trump faith advisers say the President did the right thing by visiting church last week

Washington DC, US RNS Informal evangelical Christian advisers to President Donald Trump have long championed religious freedom as a key issue that should be embraced by the administration, often arguing passionately against government infringement on religious activities. That’s why some have framed the President’s recent 1st June photo-op in front of St John’s Episcopal Church, […]
Know It All: ‘Church of The Presidents’

MEAGAN CLARK, of Religion Unplugged, looks at the history of the Washington, DC, church which hit the headlines this week…