Jason DeRose
Stories
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A look at the life and legacy of Pope Francis, who has died at age 88
Pope Francis, who has died at age 88, cast an image of humility during years of strain and change, within his church, and around the world.
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Globally, many adults no longer practice the faith they were raised in, study shows
A new Pew Research study shows that around the world, large portions of adults have left the religious group in which they were raised. Christianity and Buddhism have had especially large losses.
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'God walks with us through the ashes.' A poignant Ash Wednesday after LA wildfires
On Ash Wednesday, Christians hear the words "Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return." Those words ring differently for many whose churches and homes burned in the Los Angeles fires.
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New survey shows 67% of Americans support same-sex marriage
A new Public Religion Research Institute survey finds an increase in support for marriage equality among people from more conservative backgrounds. But it finds Americans split on transgender rights.
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Christianity declines among U.S. adults while 'religiously unaffiliated' grows, study says
The percentage of Christians in the U.S. has dropped dramatically, though that loss may have leveled off in recent years.
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Here's how Trump's Faith Office and task force against 'anti-Christian bias' may work
Two executive orders from Trump address religion directly. One forms a task force to counter "anti-Christian bias" in the federal government. The other establishes a Faith Office in the White House.
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Pope Francis calls Trump's mass deportations a 'major crisis' in letter
In a rare public rebuke, Pope Francis criticized the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, indicating that Vice President Vance had gotten the Christian theology on welcoming strangers wrong.
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Pope rebukes Trump over migrant deportations and refutes VP Vance's theology
In a strongly-worded letter to Catholic bishops in the United States, Pope Francis is taking to task the Trump Administration's stance on migrants, and that he's following what he calls a "major crisis" with the initiation of mass deportation.
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The immigration debate is reframing the religious concept of helping your neighbor
The Trump administration's approach to federal aid programs, especially refugee resettlement, appears to be challenging the approach of faith-based groups to caring for "the stranger."
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Evangelical Christian groups want Trump to reconsider certain immigration policies
Multiple evangelical Christian groups are criticizing tenants of the Trump Administration's immigration policy. But people many of the people pews agree with them.
