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News Articles: Evangelicals

Pastor Chad Harvey says he doesn't think his church is getting more political, but that politics is getting more spiritual.

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Why are some Evangelicals drawn to — and sticking by — Trump? This pastor weighs in

NPR sits down with North Carolina pastor Chad Harvey to talk about Donald Trump, religion and politics.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Scott Detrow,
  • Kathryn Fink,
  • and 2 more
 Evangelicals for Harris is making the case that Kamala Harris lives up to the biblical values of love and compassion far better than Donald Trump.

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  • Politics

Meet the evangelicals trying to make a case for VP Harris

More than 80% of white evangelicals supported Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, but a new group is trying to push some of those voters to the camp of Democratic nominee vice president Kamala Harris.

September 04, 2024
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By:
  • Jason DeRose
Despite avoiding plastic for a week, an NPR producer produced about 102 pieces of plastic or mixed-material waste.

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Readers' picks: 10 deeply engaged stories from July

The Trump assassination attempt and big Paris Olympics stars dominated the headlines in July. Here are some other stories that resonated with readers — but fell under the radar.

August 03, 2024
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By:
  • Britt Cheng
Pastor Robert Morris applauds during a roundtable discussion at Gateway Church in Dallas on June 11, 2020. A statement issued on Tuesday, June 18, 2024, said that Morris has resigned after a woman said he had abused her on multiple occasions in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12.

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  • National

The scandal roiling one of the nation's biggest megachurches, explained

A woman says Robert Morris, prominent evangelical pastor, former Trump religious adviser and founder of Gateway Church, sexually abused her as a child in the 1980s. Morris has resigned from Gateway.

June 27, 2024
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Sarah McCammon

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Author Sarah McCammon talks her new book 'The Exvangelicals'

Sarah McCammon, a national political correspondent for NPR and co-host of the NPR politics podcast, is also author of a new book, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church. She spoke with GPB's Pamela Kirkland about the book and the movement of the younger generation of evangelicals away from the church.

April 03, 2024
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By:
  • Pamela Kirkland
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro gestures as he speaks on Dec. 3.

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Venezuela's leftist leader Maduro makes a play for evangelical voters

Evangelical Christians are often courted by right-wing politicians. But in Venezuela, left-wing President Nicolás Maduro is trying to secure the church's support in the run-up to elections.

February 07, 2024
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By:
  • John Otis
A crowd of mostly Evangelical Christians waves U.S. and Israeli flags during the Christians United For Israel (CUFI) "Night to Honor Israel" event during the CUFI Summit 2023 on July 17, 2023, in Arlington, Va.

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  • Politics

This is how the Republican Party became so strongly pro-Israel

The GOP hasn't always been so focused on Israel, but evangelicals, partisan sorting and neoconservatism all helped change that. Those ties take center stage now as the Israel-Hamas war rages on.

October 19, 2023
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By:
  • Danielle Kurtzleben
Pat Robertson speaks during a forum at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., in 2015. Robertson was a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition.

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  • Obituaries

Pat Robertson, televangelist and a leader of the religious right, dies at 93

Pat Robertson founded the Christian Broadcasting Network. He also hosted The 700 Club and drew controversy for comments that were often seen as anti-gay and racially insensitive.

June 08, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
Rev. Rob Schenck speaks during press conference in front of the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on April 17, 2019. Schenck testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee Dec. 8, 2022 saying that he knew of a leak out of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2014.

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  • Politics

Former evangelical activist says he 'pushed the boundaries' in Supreme Court dealings

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, the Rev. Rob Schenck said he knew the outcome of a pivotal religious freedom decision weeks before the Supreme Court released it in 2014.

December 08, 2022
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro receives a blessing during a music festival organized by a local evangelic radio station on July 2, in Rio de Janeiro.

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  • World

Behind in polls, Brazil's Bolsonaro hopes evangelicals will carry him to reelection

Jair Bolsonaro is relying on support from the country's quickly growing evangelical community to pull off an upset against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in October.

August 25, 2022
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By:
  • John Otis
Caroline McDonald, left, a student at Georgetown University, Lauren Morrissey, with Catholics for Choice, and Pamela Huber, of Washington, join a abortion-rights rally outside the Supreme Court, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021.

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When does life begin? Religions don't agree

Debates about abortion often center around the issue of when life begins. Some religions say it's at conception. Another says it's with the baby's first breath.

May 08, 2022
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
In this Sept. 1, 2021 file photo, a security guard opens the door to the Whole Women's Health Clinic in Fort Worth, Texas.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Right To Abortion Access In Question As Ga. GOP Considers Texas-Inspired Law

Wednesday on Political Rewind: A Republican state senator said he intends to introduce a bill patterned after Texas’ contentious new abortion law during the upcoming session of the Georgia legislature. Meanwhile, Gov. Brian Kemp continues his sharp criticism of President Joe Biden’s broad vaccine mandate.

September 17, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Sam Bermas-Dawes ,
  • and 1 more
The Rev. Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan's Purse, sits for a portrait at his group's field hospital in New York's Central Park in May. Graham has spoken out in support of COVID-19 vaccines.

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  • Religion

'Love Your Neighbor' And Get The Shot: White Evangelical Leaders Push COVID Vaccines

White evangelical Christians are one of the most vaccine-hesitant groups in the United States. They're also among the largest religious groups, and their reluctance poses a public health challenge.

April 05, 2021
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
"JESUS SAVES" banners were among those carried during a rally on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington before rioters stormed the Capitol.

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  • National

Militant Christian Nationalists Remain A Potent Force, Even After The Capitol Riot

The conviction of some Christians that God has a particular plan for America gave extra potency to efforts in support of Trump's attempts to overturn his election defeat.

January 19, 2021
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  • Tom Gjelten
President Trump has paid far more attention to Catholics this year than he did in 2016.

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  • National

For Trump, Conservative Catholics Are The New Evangelicals

The president's campaign now realizes it was not white evangelicals who got Trump elected in 2016 but conservative Catholics.

October 26, 2020
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  • Tom Gjelten
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