Churches use advocacy, small loans to fight predatory lending
Frederick Douglass Haynes III, a pastor in Dallas, saw two dozen payday loan and car-title loan stores open in a five-mile radius in his community.
Museum of the Bible returns stolen Gospels manuscript
The museum is investigating the origins of 3,000 artifacts in its collection.
Proposed Christian law school reconsiders sexual conduct restrictions after Canadian court ruling
Law societies denied accreditation to the program at Trinity Western University, an evangelical school in British Columbia, citing its community covenant as discriminating against LGBTQ applicants.
Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from breakaway Anglican group in South Carolina
The Episcopal Church in South Carolina has asked the state court to give it control of the 29 church properties in question.
In historic votes, Lutherans elect two African American women bishops
Patricia A. Davenport and Viviane Thomas-Breitfeld will each lead a regional body in the predominantly white mainline Protestant denomination.
State Department to keep anti-Semitism envoy but scrap many others
Several offices that handle religious freedom issues will be consolidated.
American Bar Association looks into discrimination complaint at BYU law school
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