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April
Housing Discrimination Still Draws Focus 50 Years Later
By David Roach, Baptist Press | April 12, 2018
NASHVILLE (BP) -- On the 50th anniversary of America's Fair Housing Act, Baptists noted progress in eliminating race-based housing discrimination while also citing a need for further improvement.
A majority of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants are employed while receiving assistance but in positions with unstable hours resulting in income volatility, according a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report released on March 13.March
Urged by Their Youth, Faith Groups Flocked to the March for Our Lives
By Jack Jenkins | March 26, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) -- When Lydia Catterall, a junior at Norcross High School in Norcross, Ga., was asked why she was participating in the March for Our Lives demonstration to protest gun violence in the nation's capital, she was quick to cite the tragic school shooting that left 17 people dead in Parkland, Fla., in February.
But she was just as quick to reference her faith community: Central Presbyterian Church in downtown Atlanta.
ASHLAND, Ky. (BP) -- In the Appalachians, unemployment, poverty and drug abuse remain rampant. But Southern Baptists are stepping up their efforts to help residents impacted by the stark conditions.
Many U.S. nursing home residents with a form of dementia are being medicated without informed consent, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Feb. 5. 
The White House recently announced the end of protections for non-citizens from multiple countries, which could lead to one million immigrants either leaving the U.S. or facing deportation.
January
Religious Leaders Hail, Hammer President Trump’s First State of the Union Speech
By Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service | January 31, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Reaction to President Trump's first State of the Union was fast and furious from opponents and supporters of his definition of immigration reform and his approach to religious liberty.
January
Trump’s First-Year Report Card: How’d He Do on Issues Important to Evangelicals?
By Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service | January 27, 2018
(RNS) — In the days after Donald Trump’s surprise election in 2016, conservative evangelical Christians made clear their high expectations for the president they had helped put into office.
Has Trump met those expectations?
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Faith & Culture
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- Barbara Bush’s Old-Fashioned Religion
- Jimmy Carter, 93, Talks About His New Book: ‘Faith’
- Gallup: Southern U.S. Remains Most Religious Region
- Cultivating the Connection Between Soil and the Soul with ‘FaithLands’
Opinion
- Hypocrisy of Strikes on Syria
- Letters to a Myanmar Jail
- Discerning Our Kairos
- The Arrival of Grace
- We Clearly Have a Problem
Baptists
- Georgia Association Disfellowships Church over Racism Charges
- SBC Executive Committee CEO Frank Page Resigns Over 'Personal Failure'
- Bob Terry Announces Retirement as Editor of The Alabama Baptist
- Missouri Missionaries Randy and Kathy Arnett Die from Injuries Sustained in Africa Accident
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