TIFFANY STANLEY

Rev. William Lamar IV, pastor at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, leads service in Washington on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
A historic Black church took the Proud Boys to court. Now it controls their trademark
Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and welcomed American presidents.
 
Rahmani, who has been experiencing anxiety and depression since the Trump administration cut federal funding for refugee programs, rubs his eyes while sitting in his apartment in Laurel, Md., Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Takeaways from AP’s reporting on U.S.-allied Afghan refugees struggling for basic support
An Afghan father of two is among thousands of newly arrived refugees who lost financial assistance when the Trump administration cut off funding for the federal refugee program in January.
 
Rahmani, an Afghan refugee and father of two, plays with his daughter at the apartment where they were resettled by the Lutheran Social Services National Capital Area organization in Laurel, Md., Monday, March 3, 2025. He and his family are among thousands of newly arrived refugees who lost financial assistance when President Donald Trump cut off funding for the federal refugee program in January. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Afghan refugees in US struggle as faith-based aid is disrupted
An Afghan father of two is among thousands of newly arrived refugees who lost financial assistance when the Trump administration cut off funding for the federal refugee program in January.
 
Choir members sing hymns at Christ Church in Philadelphia during Sunday service, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao, File)
The US Christian population has declined for years. A new survey shows that drop leveling off
The number of Americans who identify as Christian has declined steadily for years, but that drop shows signs of slowing. That’s according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.
 
This photo provided by World Relief shows care group volunteers Neimate Mustafa and John Simon Mbiliwele, who provide community health education, visiting a homestead in January 2022, in Maridi, South Sudan. (Esther Mbabazi/World Relief via AP)
Christian aid groups weigh life-threatening choices about who to help after USAID funding pause
Christian aid groups are being hard-hit after the Trump administration froze most foreign aid and sidelined the U.S. Agency for International Development.
 
President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Why conservative American evangelicals are among Israel’s strongest supporters
One of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meetings in the United States this week was with American evangelicals on Monday. The gathering came ahead of Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
 
Afghan refugees hold placards during a meeting to discuss their situation after President Donald Trump paused U.S. refugee programs, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)
Refugee resettlement agencies scramble after Trump orders them to halt their federally funded work
Tens of thousands of recently arrived refugees might lose support for basic necessities like food and rent after a new Trump administration order suspended federal funding for resettlement agencies.
 
Rev. Mariann Budde leads the national prayer service attended by President Donald Trump at the Washington National Cathedral, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
What to know about Mariann Budde, the bishop who upset Trump with her inaugural sermon
The Right Rev. Mariann Budde, Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Washington, made headlines this week after she angered President Donald Trump with her sermon during an inaugural prayer service.
 
President Donald Trump, left, watches as Rev. Mariann Budde, second right, arrives at the national prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Episcopal bishop says she’ll continue to pray for Trump, who lashed out at her over viral sermon
The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Diocese of Washington, says she will continue to pray for President Donald Trump, hours after he lashed out at her over a sermon.
 
President Donald Trump, left, and first lady Melania Trump attend the national prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump demands an apology from bishop who asked him to ‘have mercy’ on LGBTQ+ people and migrants
President Donald Trump is demanding an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she asked him to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and migrants in the United States illegally during a prayer service marking his inauguration.
 
U.S.-Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., left, and her incoming Deputy Chief of Staff & Communications Director, Michaela Kurinsky-Malos, move out of McBride's Delaware State Senate office at the Delaware Legislative Hall in Dover, Del., Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Takeaways from AP’s reporting on Sarah McBride, the first openly trans person elected to Congress
Sarah McBride made history in Delaware, as the first openly transgender state senator in the United States. Now she was making history again, recently elected as the first openly trans member of Congress.
 
U.S.-Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, D-Del., hugs Delaware State Democrat Senator Laura Sturgeon from District 4 on the Senate floor during a special session, McBride's last day as a Delaware state senator, at the Delaware Legislative Hall in Dover, Del., Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Transgender trailblazer Sarah McBride heads to her debut in Congress, hoping for a touch of grace
U.S. Rep.-elect Sarah McBride will be sworn in as the first openly transgender member of Congress on Jan. 3.
 
U.S. Catholic bishops gather for their annual fall meeting at the Marriott Waterfront hotel in Baltimore on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Tiffany Stanley)
Catholic bishops urged to boldly share church teachings — even unpopular ones
Several U.S. Catholic bishops on Wednesday encouraged the church to boldly share Vatican teachings on a range of hot-button issues, including the condemnation of abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy and gender-affirming surgery.
 
FILE - El Paso Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz talks with Celsia Palma, 9, of Honduras, as they walk to the Paso Del Norte International Port of Entry, Thursday, June, 27, 2019, in Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Rudy Gutierrez, File)
As US Catholic bishops meet, Trump looms over their work on abortion and immigration
As U.S. Catholic bishops gather for their annual fall meeting this week in Baltimore, the specter of President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory hangs over the proceedings.
 
Slavik Pyzh, the president of the Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary in Lviv, Ukraine, stands in the sanctuary of a Baptist church in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Evangelicals emerge as a potent lobby for US support of Ukraine
Ukrainian evangelicals are lobbying their American counterparts for continued support of their homeland in its war with Russia.
 
Takeaways from AP’s report on the evangelicals backing Kamala Harris
Donald Trump has received strong support from white evangelical Protestants in his presidential bids. About 8 in 10 white evangelical voters supported him in 2020, according to AP VoteCast.
 
Dr. Soong-Chan Rah poses at the Korean Church of Boston, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Brookline, Mass. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
These evangelicals are voting their values — by backing Kamala Harris
Donald Trump has received strong support from white evangelical Protestants in his presidential bids. About 8 in 10 white evangelical voters supported him in 2020, according to AP VoteCast.
 
Benedictine sisters, Rose Marie Stallbaumer, left, and Barbara McCracken, right, look through corporate resolution archives and newspaper clippings at the Mount St. Scholastica monastery in Atchison, Kan., Tuesday, July 16, 2024. For the past two decades the community has participated in activist investing, a process in which they partner with other religious organizations to buy the stocks of companies they hope to positively influence. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
How a small group of nuns in rural Kansas vex big companies with their investment activism
Among corporate America’s most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City. The Benedictine sisters of Mount St.
 
Karen Wilson-Buterbaugh holds her newborn daughter at the Florence Crittenton Maternity Home in Washington D.C. on August 10, 1966. Wilson-Buterbaugh gave birth during the "Baby Scoop Era," when more than 1.5 million infants were surrendered for adoption. Many unwed pregnant women and girls were sent to live in maternity homes, where they were often coerced into relinquishing their babies. (Karen Wilson-Buterbaugh via AP)
What are maternity homes? Their legacy is checkered
There has been a nationwide expansion of maternity homes in the two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the federal right to abortion.
 
Jasmine Heriot, a former Mary's Shelter resident, holds her infant's hand on Friday, January 5, 2024, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In the two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the federal right to abortion, there has been a nationwide expansion of maternity homes. Today there are more than 450 homes in the U.S., many of them faith-based. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
After the end of Roe, a new beginning for maternity homes
There has been a nationwide expansion of maternity homes in the two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the federal right to abortion.
 
Sam Earle, left, and his wife, Tori, pose with their daughter, Novalie, outside the Heritage Baptist Church Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Lakeland, Fla. Novalie was born through an embryo adoption. “We’re believers,” says Tori, 30, who belongs to the Baptist church where her dad once was pastor. “So we just prayed about it, and we asked the Lord to just kind of guide us.” (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)
A court ruled embryos are children. These Christian couples agree yet wrestle with IVF choices
When faced with infertility, Christians who believe life begins at or around conception must wrestle with weighty questions: How do you build a family in a way that conforms with your beliefs?
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 18, 2016. For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do. He transformed the U.S. Supreme Court into a conservative majority that would go on to overturn Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
Conservative Christians praise Trump’s anti-abortion record but say he’s stopped short of the goal
For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do. He transformed the U.S.
 
FILE - Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, in Las Vegas. Trump on Monday, March 18, 2024, charged that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their religion,” igniting a firestorm of criticism from the White House and Jewish leaders.(AP Photo/John Locher, File)
US Jews upset with Trump’s latest rhetoric say he doesn’t get to tell them how to be Jewish
Many Jewish faith leaders and commentators are decrying what they say are inflammatory remarks by Donald Trump. That follows the Republican former president’s accusation that Jews who vote for Democrats hate their religion and Israel.
 
Gabrielle Longhi poses for a portrait, Friday, March 8, 2024, in Los Angeles. In a recent lawsuit, Longhi alleges she was sexually abused at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Maryland. The sexual abuse of children by Catholic nuns often has been overlooked in the Catholic clergy abuse crisis, but survivors of nun abuse hope to raise awareness of the issue. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
Victims of Catholic nuns rely on each other after being overlooked in the clergy sex abuse crisis
The sexual abuse of children by Catholic sisters and nuns has been overshadowed by far more common reports of male clergy abuse.
 
FILE - Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker speaks on the steps of the state judicial building on April 5, 2006, in Montgomery, Ala. When the court ruled that frozen embryos are children, its Chief Justice Parker made explicit use of Christian theology to justify the court's decision in his concurrence, where his language echoed the broader anti-abortion movement. (AP Photo/Jamie Martin, File)
Chief justice’s Christian reasoning in IVF opinion sparks alarm over church-state separation
When the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered children under state law, its chief justice had a higher authority in mind.
 
FILE - People attend the "NO FEAR: Rally in Solidarity with the Jewish People" event in Washington, Sunday, July 11, 2021, co-sponsored by the Alliance for Israel, Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, B'nai B'rith International and other organizations. The American Jewish Committee released a survey on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, that found nearly two-thirds of American Jews feel less secure in the U.S. than they did a year ago. The group conducted the survey on antisemitism last fall just as the Israel-Hamas war began. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Antisemitism and safety fears surge among US Jews, survey finds
Nearly two-thirds of American Jews feel less secure in the U.S. than they did a year ago. That’s according to the latest annual survey from the American Jewish Committee.
 
This image provided by He Gets Us LLC shows a scene from “Foot Washing," the 60-second commercial from "He Gets Us" that debuted at the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. For the second year in a row, a religious Super Bowl ad campaign promised viewers that Jesus “gets us.” Two commercials shown Sunday night centered Jesus’ message to love your neighbors — even across ideological divides. (Julia Fullerton-Batten and Scott Mayo/He Gets Us LLC via AP)
On Super Bowl broadcast, ‘He Gets Us’ ads featuring Jesus stand out for change-of-pace message
For the second year in a row, a religious Super Bowl ad campaign promised viewers that Jesus “gets us.” Two commercials from Sunday night centered Jesus’ message to love your neighbors — even across ideological divides.
 
Charles Richardson, of Baltimore, wipes his eye while discussing his alleged abuse decades ago by a Catholic priest, in Baltimore on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Black victims have largely been invisible in the Catholic sexual abuse crisis. Richardson recently came forward after the state of Maryland removed the civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse victims. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)
In the US, Black survivors are nearly invisible in the Catholic clergy sexual abuse crisis
Black survivors have been nearly invisible in the Catholic Church sexual abuse crisis — even in Baltimore, home to a historic Black Catholic community.
 
From left, Jacqueline Miller and Mary Rappaport, both from Alexandria, Va.; June Vendetti, from Bridgeport, Conn., and Suzanne Allen, from Westport, Conn., stand together for a photo in Baltimore on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. They traveled to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops support Bishop Joseph Strickland after his ouster. “We’re in a spiritual battle. When the pope asked Bishop Strickland to resign, it was a wound to the whole church,” Allen said. Rappaport said, “this pope is trying to change the church in dangerous ways.” (AP Photo/Tiffany Stanley)
Ousted Texas bishop rallies outside US bishops meeting as his peers reinforce Catholic voter values
U.S. bishops inside a Baltimore hotel approved materials on how Catholics should vote in 2024 elections. Soon after, their recently ousted colleague and dozens of his supporters rallied outside the annual fall business meeting.
 
The nation’s Catholic bishops gather for their annual fall meeting in at the Marriott Waterfront hotel in Baltimore on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. On Tuesday, the Catholic leaders called for peace in a war-torn world and unity amid strife within their own clerical ranks. (AP Photo/Tiffany Stanley)
US Catholic bishops meet; leaders call for unity and peace amid internal strife and global conflict
Catholic leaders called for peace in a war-torn world and unity amid strife within their own ranks as U.S. bishops gather in Baltimore.
 
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