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title : Historic Church Closes, Reflects US Pattern of Less Rituals, Observance
summary : A Tempe, Ariz., church that opened in 1892, The First Congregational United Church of Christ, held its last service on Sunday due to low church attendance and an inability to financially support itself.
date : Mar 31, 2017 05:18 PM EDT
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title : Evangelicals Participate in 58th Presidential Inauguration National Prayer Service
summary : An interfaith prayer service will be held at Washington's National Cathedral on Saturday in conjunction with the 58th Presidential Inauguration.
date : Jan 20, 2017 12:25 PM EST
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title : Christian Leaders Comment On Donald Trump President-Elect
summary : Paula White, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's spiritual adviser, a member of his evangelical advisory board and pastor of the New Destiny Christian Center in Florida, issued this written statement: "Far more than what divides us, this election has revealed what unites us. I have never seen such solidarity between evangelicals and Catholics, Pentecostals, charismatics and Baptists. We were brought together with a mutual love for our country and through a mutual faith in God.
date : Nov 09, 2016 04:00 PM EST
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title : Mike Pence Asks Evangelicals at Liberty University to Forgive Donald Trump
summary : Indiana governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, Mike Pence, asked evangelical Christians at Liberty University's Convocation on Wednesday to forgive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after Friday's release of a 2005 recording in which Trump is heard, in graphic terms, discussing women and his attempts to grope them. Some people took Trump's comments as proof of sexual assault because he referenced uninvited, random physical advances on women.
date : Oct 12, 2016 05:25 PM EDT
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title : Many Evangelicals Embrace Erroneous Doctrine, Says Research
summary : A study released by LifeWay Research and Ligonier Ministries revealed that many evangelicals have accepted and believed wrong theological doctrines.
date : Oct 03, 2016 09:19 PM EDT
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title : Evangelicals Argue Who to Vote for in 2016 Presidential Election During DC Debate
summary : Non-partisan group National Religious Broadcasters hosted a spirited discussion, "Evangelicals Debate the 2016 Election: Trump, Clinton, or Other," with four evangelical leaders at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Friday.
date : Sep 19, 2016 08:12 PM EDT
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title : Mexico’s Religious Conservatives Seek Anti-LGBT Constitutional Amendment
summary : An evangelical organization, For Life and Family, recently gathered 300,000 signatures in support of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex couples from getting married in the country. The signatures were presented to the Chamber of Deputies after a march. The initiative also would add bans against abortion and sex education in schools into the constitution.
date : Sep 06, 2016 04:25 PM EDT
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title : Harvest America 2016: Thousands Accept Christ at Evangelical Event with Greg Laurie in Texas
summary : Approximately 82,000 people gathered at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, for Harvest America 2016, an evangelical outreach event, on Sunday evening. Pastor Greg Laurie, host and senior pastor of the Harvest Christian Fellowship megachurch in California, said thousands responded to his invitation to pray to accept Jesus into their lives. The event also featured musical guests Chris Tomlin, Lecrae, Switchfoot and MercyMe.
date : Mar 07, 2016 05:45 PM EST
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title : Donald Trump Endorsement Was Mistake Says Liberty University's Mark DeMoss About Jerry Falwell Jr.
summary : Televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr.'s former chief of staff, Mark DeMoss, broke his silence Tuesday about disagreeing with Jerry Falwell Jr.'s endorsement of GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump. Not only did DeMoss indicate that Falwell's endorsement was a mistake, he also claimed it was a "concern" for Liberty University, the Virginia Christian college founded by the elder Falwell and now led by his son.
date : Mar 02, 2016 02:09 PM EST
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title : The Christian Post Editorial: 'Donald Trump Is Scam, Evangelical Voters Should Back Away'
summary : "Donald Trump does not represent the interests of evangelicals and would be a dangerous leader for our country," editors of The Christian Post published Monday, adding they had never before taken a political position on a candidate. "We are making an exception because Trump is exceptionally bad and claims to speak for, and represent, the interests of evangelicals," they wrote.
date : Mar 01, 2016 06:31 PM EST
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title : Religion In 2016 Presidential Super Tuesday Race Cites Opposite Logic in New Pew Poll
summary : A new, comprehensive study on religion in the presidential race was released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. Pew polling traditionally confirmed Americans prefer candidates who are people of faith; half of Americans say they would be less likely to vote for a non-believer. Only 5 percent of Republicans in the new poll said Trump was "very religious," compared to 47 percent for Ben Carson, 30 percent for Ted Cruz, and 20 percent for Marco Rubio. But while Trump is seen by Republicans as the least religious GOP candidate, he also is seen as the most likely GOP candidate to be a good or a great president.
date : Feb 29, 2016 05:59 PM EST
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title : Donald Trump Typifies Religious Cynicism, Says Fellow Presbyterian: 'Heathen, Wolf in Wolves' Clothing'
summary : In a strongly worded and critical opinion piece on Huffington Post, blogger Matthew Taylor took GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump to task and asked why Christians are "supporting the heathen." However, the self-professed Christian also threw conceptual darts at the true state of religion in America, while claiming Trump exposes how the "genius of the American religious experiment is also its Achilles heel."
date : Feb 23, 2016 04:10 PM EST
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title : Faith Facts to Shape Upcoming South Carolina, Nevada 2016 Presidential Primaries
summary : Predictions are that religious beliefs, or lack of them, once again will influence the U.S. 2016 presidential nomination contests about to happen in South Carolina and Nevada over the next week for both major political parties.
date : Feb 19, 2016 01:13 PM EST
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title : Ted Cruz Defends Backing From IHOP Mike Bickle, Who Said 'Hitler Was Hunter Sent by God'
summary : Despite public pressure, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz isn't distancing himself from the endorsement of International House of Prayer director Mike Bickle, an Evangelical pastor who characterized military dictator Adolf Hitler as "a hunter sent by God to go after Jews who don't to convert to Christianity." Although Jewish groups are asking Cruz campaign managers to denounce Bickle's interpretation of scripture, a senior advisor to Cruz, Nick Muzin, welcomed Bickle's support in a statement published Thursday (Feb. 11) in the Jewish Journal.
date : Feb 11, 2016 10:24 PM EST
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title : Evangelical Conservative Christian Educator Declares Trump, Cruz Wrong on Immigration
summary : While Republican presidential candidates vie to take the harshest stance on immigration into the United States, the president of evangelical Christian Northwest University in Kirkland, Wash., Joseph Castleberry, preaches a vastly different philosophy of embracing immigrants, citing that Jesus himself was one. However, it's important to note the higher education administrator has personal reasons to promote this topic: his daughter married a Mexican American, and he authored a new book entitled "The New Pilgrims: How Immigrants are Renewing America's Faith."
date : Feb 11, 2016 11:23 AM EST
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title : Rafael Cruz, Ted Cruz’s Pastor Father, Warns ‘New Religion' Capturing, Degrading America
summary : America's moral fiber is being attacked and "people who have been the background of America" have been divorced from the political process, believes one Christian preacher and public speaker, who currently has a son smack in the public spotlight. Pastor Rafael Cruz, father of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, warns that a new religion is taking over and destroying the United States. "Our foundations have been eroded by secular humanism," he said.
date : Feb 10, 2016 10:16 AM EST
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title : Prayers in Public High School Football Games Supported by Majority, Indicates New Survey
summary : Nearly three-quarters, specifically 73 percent, of the public believe football coaches at public high schools should be allowed to lead their players in Christian prayer during games, while only about one-quarter, or 24 percent, say they should not, according to a new Public Religion Research Institute survey released Thursday.
date : Jan 29, 2016 11:10 AM EST
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title : Pew Poll: 40% Americans Say Too Little Religious Faith, Prayer Expressed By Political Leaders, Candidates
summary : Results from a new Pew Research Center survey released Wednesday (Jan. 27) indicate several of the U.S. presidential candidates currently leading the polls of both parties are not perceived as intensely religious individuals.
date : Jan 27, 2016 11:26 AM EST
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title : Marco Rubio Defines Christian Faith In New TV Ad for GOP Presidential Bid
summary : In a new television ad scheduled to launch this weekend in Iowa, GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida speaks about his Christian faith and how religion influences his life, aiming straight at evangelical voters. “The struggle on a daily basis as a Christian is to remind ourselves of (salvation). The purpose of our life is to cooperate with God’s plan,” he proclaims.
date : Jan 07, 2016 09:29 PM EST
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title : Donald Trump to Woo Evangelicals at Liberty University, Connect with Jerry Falwell Jr.
summary : GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump plans to address thousands of young evangelicals on Jan. 18 at Liberty University’s first 2016 convocation as students return to campus. This convocation is North America's largest weekly gathering of Christian students, and each year it plays host to more than 80 guest speakers of national significance from every sphere of society, according to the university.
date : Jan 06, 2016 11:36 AM EST
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title : 'Evangelicals Can’t be Pro-Life and Pro-Gun,' Says Rev. Rob Schenck
summary : As a leading American evangelical reverend to Washington, D.C., officials and president of the Faith and Action Christian outreach ministry, Rob Schenck took on the controversial topic of choices about guns and morality in a special opinion piece this week. He said he now believes his "family of faith is wrong on guns."
date : Jan 04, 2016 09:44 AM EST
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title : Evangelicals Key Swing In New Iowa Presidential Poll, Ted Cruz Soars While Ben Carson Drops
summary : GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz surged ahead of fellow candidates Ben Carson and Donald Trump in a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll released Saturday. Although Carson appointed a faith adviser at the end of November, this new poll indicated one reason for Cruz's rise was the support of 45 percent evangelical conservatives and 39 percent of tea party conservatives.
date : Dec 14, 2015 12:26 PM EST
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