Coronavirus

On Wednesday, the Biden Department of Labor said that it will not enforce the administration's vaccine/testing mandate while an appeals court decision against the rule is in effect.

The financial health of America’s Protestant churches has either stabilized or improved since the pandemic ravaged the economy in 2020, according to a new Lifeway Research survey that has mixed results for the nation’s congregations.

According to the recently released Faith Communities Today study, half of the congregations in the United States have 65 people or fewer, while two-thirds of congregations have fewer than 100. That’s a marked change from two decades earlier, when the 2000 Faith Communities Today survey found the median congregation had 137 people and fewer than half of congregations had fewer than 100 people.

An Oklahoma judge has issued a temporary restraining order stopping a healthcare company from firing unvaccinated workers who had been denied religious exemptions from the company's vaccination mandate.

Christian actor Chad Kimball is suing a Broadway production company for allegedly firing him due to his religious beliefs.

According to the latest survey from Lifeway Research, while most Protestant churches have resumed in-person services since the pandemic began, congregants have been slow to return.

More than 123,000 religious groups were approved for Paycheck Protection Program loans, according to data from the Small Business Administration. Of the 123,083 loans to religious groups, only about 13,000 were for more than $150,000. Those larger loans accounted for about $5.5 billion of the more than $9 billion worth of PPP loans approved for religious groups.

Opponents of the Biden administration's vaccine/testing mandate received a major victory Saturday when a federal appeals court temporarily blocked the new rule and ordered both sides to issue new briefs.

A prominent Democrat and Republican who have largely supported the Biden administration's war on COVID-19 are opposing his vaccine/testing mandate, saying it's not the most effective way to get the nation inoculated.

Two of the largest and most prominent Christian seminaries in the United States teamed up on Friday to challenge the Biden administration's vaccine/testing mandate, calling it an "abuse of executive power" and a violation of federal law and First Amendment rights.