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Fears of Americans losing religion may be “overwrought,” declares an article in the Wall Street Journal Thursday, because evangelical churches are actually growing.

Fashion mogul and Gospel megastar Kanye West brought his Sunday Service choir to an evangelical student conference in Tennessee, where he spoke about being saved by Jesus Christ from the devil who was inhabiting his body.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Newsroom,” the former Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) said evangelical Christians were divided in support for President Donald Trump and supported the Christianity Today editorial calling for the president’s removal from office. Kasich said, “I have actually

“I really do believe we have God on our side. I believe that … or there would have been no way we could have won, right?” Trump said.

Jerry Falwell, Jr. said Christianity Today represents the same “liberal evangelicals” who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Celebrated evangelical pastor Franklin Graham revealed Friday that his father, Billy Graham, voted for Donald J. Trump in 2016 because he believed he was the best man for the job.

The editor of Christianity Today, a publication founded by Billy Graham, says President Donald Trump “should be removed from office.”

On Sunday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Weekends,” Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) called evangelicals who support President Donald Trump “deluded.”

Rap superstar Kanye West revealed he asked artists working on his latest album, “Jesus is King” to refrain from premarital sex as part of his public turn to faith and Christianity.

Liberty University and its president Jerry Falwell, Jr., are preparing a massive legal battle to fight the merchants of a “smear campaign” being waged against the world’s largest Christian school, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

Politico reports Monday morning that three evangelical Christian voters were upset last month that Trump allegedly took the Lord’s name in vain during a speech at a campaign rally.

Democrats hoping to push President Donald Trump out of the White House are turning to the religious left in an effort to recruit evangelical voters ahead of the 2020 election.

Actor-comedian Andy Richter lashed out at Evangelicals over their support for President Donald Trump, calling the key Republican voter bloc “demonstrably full of shit.”

Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, predicted an increase in Evangelical voters supporting President Donald Trump in 2020’s presidential election, joining SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday for an interview with host Matt Boyle.

The Never Trump publication National Review is now attacking Franklin Graham for being … a bad Christian.

The Cuban communist regime sentenced Evangelical Pastor Ramón Rigal to two years in prison – and his wife Ayda Expósito to a year and half – on Monday for homeschooling their children, less than a week after their arrest for promoting the practice.

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a likely 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, attacked evangelical Christians that support President Donald Trump by claiming “hypocrisy is unbelievable.” Buttigieg  said, “It’s something that frustrates me because the hypocrisy is

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough reacted to a recent poll showing that seven in 10 evangelicals support President Donald Trump, questioning why they would remain loyal to someone who is the “antithesis” of biblical teachings. Scarborough said

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ), and a pioneer in linking Christians to the cause of the State of Israel, passed away suddenly on Wednesday at the age of 67.

“The courts, the economic growth of our country – which helps all of us, regardless of our faith – we’re all benefitting from a strong economy,” the evangelical leader observed. “I would certainly ask people to consider what’s at stake, and to pray before you vote.”

“First, I want to thank God for being alive,” were the first words President-elect Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil said at an Evangelical Christian service on Tuesday night, his first public appearance since winning Sunday’s election.

British comedy star and Monty Python alum John Cleese went after President Donald Trump and attacked Christians who support him and his agenda.

Evangelical leaders continue to be thrilled with President Donald Trump’s performance after he secured the release of pastor Andrew Brunson this weekend.

The largest gay advocacy group in the U.S. has released a “guide for LGBTQ evangelical Christians” asserting the compatibility of an active homosexual lifestyle with faithful Christianity.

Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney has joined the attack against Pastor Robert Jeffress for praying at Monday’s ceremony moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Romney faults the longtime supporter of the Jewish state for what many regard as Jeffress’ mainstream evangelical Christian beliefs about sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

JERUSALEM, Israel — U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman defended the evangelical Christian pastors who had spoken at the dedication of the new U.S. embassy on Monday, telling Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Tuesday that they had earned their place at the podium.

Leaders of the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative praised President Donald Trump for moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and thanked the faith community for their role in making it happen.

A poll by the Public Religion Research Institute shows that support for President Trump among white evangelicals has hit a record high of 75 percent. Only 22 percent view the president unfavorably.

Evangelicals who support President Donald Trump are unwittingly perpetuating the “slaveholder religion” of their forefathers, declares Christian activist Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove in a controversial interview with Religion News Service (RNS).

Those who identify as Unitarian Universalists, Atheists or Agnostics are the strongest supporters of legalized abortion in America, according to a report published by the Pew Research Center this week.

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele slammed evangelicals that still support President Donald Trump despite his past alleged indiscretions. Steele told host Chris Matthews those Trump-supporting evangelicals needed to “shut the hell up.” Partial transcript

Conservative evangelicals remain the staunchest supporters of embattled Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, Astead W. Herndon reports in the Boston Globe.

The New York Times has added its voice to a chorus of commentators on the recent Vatican hostility toward American Catholics, conservatives, and Steve Bannon in particular.

In a peculiar, rambling essay, papal adviser Father Antonio Spadaro SJ has caricatured white southern evangelicals as well as conservative American Catholics as ignorant, theocratic, Manichean, war-mongering fanatics anxiously awaiting the apocalypse.

In a rabid new op-ed, atheist author Frank Schaeffer blasts leading evangelicals Revs. Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr. for their support of President-elect Donald Trump, suggesting that they have betrayed their biblical values in exchange for white supremacy and irrationality.

Michael Wear served in the White House faith-based initiative during Obama’s first term, and then was tapped by the president to direct faith outreach for his successful 2012 re-election campaign, where he led evangelical outreach and helped manage White House engagement on religious issues.