Evangelicals

"President Trump will establish a new Supreme Court justice," Pastor Robert Henderson said. "That's no accident."

Pastor Rick Joyner insisted that the Black Lives Matter movement is secretly a "Marxist organization" and a "reverse KKK" that seeks to "destroy freedom in America" in a video posted online Thursday.

Liberty University's top lawyer reportedly expressed concerns that continued contact between Jerry Falwell Jr. and staff would be "not well received by our supporters who do not want Mr. Falwell to be running Liberty University behind the scenes" in a recent letter to employees.

A majority of Americans say Jesus was a great teacher and nothing more during his lifetime, which several Christian leaders say is evidence today's faithful are "drifting away" from traditional evangelist teachings.

Although most white evangelicals and most conservatives voted for Trump in 2016, he divorced his party from conservative beliefs and makes a daily mockery of Christian values like charity, empathy and humility.

The president's approval ratings have declined among Christians, while his Democratic rival has looked to bolster his faith outreach.

A conservative evangelical stands for the Catholic school system.

President Trump saw a double-digit drop in support among white Christians since coronavirus pandemic measures began in mid-March.

"Detainees who are elderly or who may otherwise be uniquely vulnerable to the worst effects of COVID-19 are of particular concern," read the Tuesday letter in part.

Conservative preacher Rodney Howard-Browne insisted Jesus would have physically attacked former National Security Adviser John Bolton for his supposed betrayal of President Donald Trump.

Political engagement is fashioned as cringeworthy and general apathy is praised as a morally superior virtue. This has consequences: Millions of evangelicals in the United States are still not registered to vote.

The president said multiple leaders within the Evangelical community had told him they had not seen such strong support for a U.S. president in decades.

The Lincoln Project, a Republican organization against Trump, released its first video, which criticizes evangelical Trump supporters.

At a campaign event for the Evangelicals for Trump coalition, President Donald Trump said some members of Congress "hate Israel" and "Jewish people," including Representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Professor Wayne Grudem offered his take on why the Christianity Today op-ed did not present sufficiently logical reasons to remove Trump from office.

After an editorial in Christianity Today called for Trump's removal, the president will drum up support at his "Evangelicals for Trump" rally in Miami.

As a pastor myself, I have long felt betrayed by Evangelical support for Trump—a president who can be described as the anti-Jesus: living for pride, power, pleasure, and wealth, rather than faith, hope, love, and wisdom.

Joe Scarborough said that some Christian preachers were demonstrating that staying in Trump's good graces was more important than staying true to their faith.

"They think they are more moral and smarter than the rest of us," Jerry Falwell, the president of Liberty University, complained to Fox & Friends.

Evangelical leaders would "take the shameless conman [Trump] over the principles that they're preaching in the holy season as we celebrate Jesus," Sharpton said.

177 evangelical leaders, including Jerry Falwell Jr., Robert Jeffress and Cissie Graham Lynch, sent a letter to Christianity Today on Sunday rebuking its scathing op-ed against Trump.

Editor in chief Mark Galli said some of his "brothers and sisters" were willing to defend the commander-in-chief "to the end."

A right wing evangelical pastor has claimed that teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg is "psychologically disturbed" while suggesting she could be possessed by a "demonic spirit."

An LGBTQ news site has claimed that the number of people who supposedly signed a petition against a hypothetical gay Christmas movie website are artificially inflated.

The televangelist argued that withdrawal from northern Syria will embolden enemies of the U.S. around the globe to seize more disputed territory and make us seem unreliable to our allies.

Cameron Strang, founder and CEO of 'Relevant' magazine, is accused of saying his readers "[don't] want to see scary black men on the cover."

Pastor Robert Jeffress, serves on President Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board, told young climate activist Greta Thunberg the rainbow was "God's promise that the polar ice caps aren't going to melt and flood the world again."

The evangelical leader also suggested that persecuted Indians should pray for Modi in the hope it will prompt him to better protect religious minorities.

Newsweek spoke to two academics who immersed themselves in evangelical communities to understand how a quarter of the U.S. population came to reject the idea that climate change is a man-made problem.

"I couldn't stay silent anymore," said one student. "I would like to see President Falwell address this himself and for there to be an investigation into the allegations."