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Earlier this month, Russian police raided a prominent Baptist minister’s home for criticizing the military. But before they could arrest him, he slipped out of the country. We spoke with him as he recalled his ministry and courageous defiance.

It is perhaps a sign of the times that there is no single faith-based group listed among the organizations serving as co-chairs of the 60th Anniversary of the March on Washington that will be celebrated on Aug. 26.

Texas school districts have until March 1 of next year to decide whether to hire school chaplains.

The pope made the announcement while addressing the need for human rights protections in Europe.

This issue of A Public Witness explores Andrew Whitehead’s compelling new book "American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church."

In "Theology without Deception: God, the Poor, and Reality in El Salvador — Conversations with Charo Marmol," Jesuit Jon Sobrino explores faithful discipleship in a world marked by injustice.

Both Nikki Haley and Tim Scott have been part of influential S.C. churches, and as candidates of color must appeal to their party’s White evangelical base to have a prayer against former President Donald Trump, whose hold on the GOP and its Christian voters remains strong.

The incidents have been organized by extremist groups who consider Christians to be enemies of the Jewish people.

There could be some new rivalries between Christian schools brewing in the evolving Big 12 Conference.

Police in eastern Pakistan arrested 129 Muslims after a mob angered by an alleged Quran desecration attacked a dozen churches and nearly two dozen homes of minority Christians, officials said Thursday. Police also arrested the two Christian men suspected of defacing the Quran.