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The religious composition of the new U.S. Congress that started Sunday remained overwhelmingly Christian (88%), and heavily Protestant (55%), the Pew Research Center has found.

A die-hard group of Trump supporters hopes 2021 will start with prayer, fasting, and perhaps a miracle. Organizers of the Jericho March have called on “patriots, people of faith, and all those who want to take back America” to travel to D.C. for a pair of marches to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

As the new session of the U.S. House of Representatives opened Sunday (Jan. 3),a prayer by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat from Missouri, sparked social media backlash and mocking.

For decades, the red-bricked Gothic Revival church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached has been a monument to the history of Black Americans’ fight for civil rights and the legacy of an activist icon. Today, Ebenezer Baptist Church is at the center of the current political debate.

A disused, rubble-filled piece of land has caused friction between the ancient Christian community and the local Palestinian community, which is in administrative control of East Jerusalem despite Israel’s longtime military occupation and effective annexation of the area.

In March, as the coronavirus pandemic shut down countries around the world, a massive earthquake struck Croatia. Now, as this tumultuous year closes, the Balkan nation again finds itself hit by earthquakes. And Baptists there are among those hurt by the quakes and ministering to their neighbors.

In 2020, we celebrated holidays at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We worked at home, attended school at home, even attended worship services at home. Many Christians also turned to hymns for comfort at home, according to Hymnary.org.

A new poll of Britain’s Generation Z finds older adolescents and younger adults are more likely to believe in God than are millennials, the demographic ahead of them. No parallel trend has been identified in the United States.

Even while hospital chaplains rolled up their sleeves to join other frontline workers as some of the first to be gifted with human-made immunity to COVID-19, many reflected on the work that led them to the historic moment — jobs that are sometimes harrowing, sometimes beautiful, and always deeply felt.

Churches in the most-populous county in the U.S. can now meet in person for worship because of changes in legal and political decisions. But with the pandemic still raging, many congregations continue to meet virtually.