All posts tagged "Christians"

President Donald Trump has long touted his tough stance on immigration as one of the top mandates granted to him by voters. But according to a new piece in Politico, the administration may soon switch course to allow some Christian refugees to remain in the U.S. and avoid deportation.

This, after an unknown number of Christian Afghan migrants received emails from Customs and Border Protection revoking their humanitarian parole status, Politico reported.

Prominent Christian leaders, including evangelist Franklin Graham, "have pressed the White House to protect what they say is a group of hundreds of at-risk Christian Afghan refugees," wrote reporters Jake Traylor and Myah Ward. "The leaders argued they could face persecution if returned to Afghanistan, which has reverted to Taliban control."...

Former President Donald Trump stirred controversy over the weekend when he told a group of evangelical supporters that they wouldn't "have to vote anymore" if he won the 2024 presidential election.

While many Trump critics saw this as a pledge by the former president to rig or even block future elections from taking place, Washington Monthly writer Bill Scher believes that Trump was actually referring to a get-out-the-vote plan that Scher describes as simply "bonkers."

"Last month I pieced together the bonkers story of how Trump ousted Ronna McDaniel as chair of the Republican National Committee at the urging of Turning Point CEO Charlie Kirk, because she was resisting Kirk's proposal to run point on GOTV," writes Scher. "Some Republicans suggested Turning Point's plan to raise $108 million for his group to boost voter turnout in three states smelled like a 'grift,' yet Trump gave it the green light."...

Donald Trump's campaign on Saturday pushed President Joe Biden's administration to apologize to "Catholics and Christians," prompting insiders to wonder why Trump drew a distinction between the two denominations of the shared faith.

Trump's campaign demanded Biden apologize for declaring Easter as "Trans Visibility Day," but the former president's own former advisor blew apart that claim by showing that the date for Trans Visibility Day was set 10 years ago and Biden wasn't involved.

But political onlookers on both sides of the aisle noticed an interesting line in Trump's reply....

A Republican candidate for South Carolina lieutenant governor says Christians should remove their children from public schools.

A major study released Monday puts the total number of Christians worldwide at 2.18 billion, or 31.7 percent -- nearly a third -- of the estimated global population of 6.9 billion.