President Trump on Friday met with families whose loved ones have been killed by people who entered the United States illegally, highlighting their "permanent separation" in response to criticism over his administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.

A number of evangelical Christians in Nevada recently turned their backs on a longtime Republican lawmaker described as a family man and helped hand victory to popular brothel owner Dennis Hof in a Republican primary for the state Legislature.

Oregon's highest court has refused to hear an appeal for a Christian baker couple who was fined $135,000 for refusing on religious grounds to make a same-sex wedding cake.

The Honduran father of a little girl pictured crying at the U.S. border with Mexico, which Time magazine and other publications have used to portray the outrage of separating families, and a Facebook campaign raised $18 million regarding, has said that the presented context of the photo is false. The girl was never separated from her mother..

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday ending parental separations after around 2,000 children were taken from their parents who are being held in Border Patrol detention centers as their claims are being processed.

The debate over illegal immigration and the government's laws continues to intensify despite the Trump administration's Wednesday decision to end its policy of separating children from their parents or other adults who accompanied them when they crossed the border illegally.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has indicated that the U.S. government is weighing the idea of testing DNA to prove parentage of children and parents detained at the southern border, a prominent evangelical leader with close ties to the administration has said.

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has stressed the importance of adopted children being raised in faith-based, mother-father homes, as the country debates whether religious adoption agencies that work with the government can be allowed to not refer children to same-sex couples.

Baylor University has been in contact with churches about offering shelter to the children separated from their parents due to the families entering the nation illegally.

As the Trump administration has promised to help Christians and other religious minorities who faced genocide at the hands of the Islamic State, the U.S. government has resettled only 10 Christian refugees from Iraq and Syria since the beginning of 2018.

A black Democrat Christian strategist says that the party's donor class' push for secular progressivism is "out of tune" with the views of many black Christians in the Democratic Party, and recounted the pushback he personally received when he urged the party to be more welcoming to biblical values.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has stated that evangelical leaders opposed to the Trump administration's policy of separating families that entered the nation illegally should give aid to some undocumented immigrants.

Lifelong Methodist and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton joined more than 600 United Methodist clergy and church members in rebuking their fellow Methodist brother, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions for using Scripture to support a controversial zero tolerance U.S. immigration policy which separates children from families Monday.

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has announced that he is introducing emergency legislation to the federal policy of family separation for immigrants who enter the country illegally.

A retired Florida firefighter, whose "Trump prophecy" is the center of an upcoming feature-film being worked on by Liberty University students, says that he believes President Donald Trump will win re-election in 2020.

House Democratic Leader and mother of five Nancy Pelosi blasted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and "all people of faith in our country" as hypocrites last Friday for not demanding more compassion in the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy separating unauthorized immigrant children from their families.

Megachurch Pastor Carl Lentz of Hillsong Church NYC has admitted that due to the way the word is often used in U.S. right-wing circles, he hesitates to call himself an evangelical.

Many Christian leaders and organizations have opposed President Donald Trump's policies separating parents from their children.

As research shows that white evangelicals are the least likely demographic to believe that the United States has a responsibility to accept refugees into the country, a leading evangelical humanitarian activist has warned that many evangelicals and Americans may have misguided views about who refugees are as the U.S. turns its back against them.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders cited the Bible in staunch defense of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy on illegal immigration which critics have turned into a controversial talking point because enforcement of the policy results in the separation of children from their parents.

Major U.S. politicians from both sides of the aisle took part in the 2018 National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast & Conference, which took place over three days in Washington, D.C., and culminated on Thursday.

The U.S. Senate is deciding whether to block Turkey's purchase of military planes due to the country's imprisonment of an American pastor.

Leading evangelist Franklin Graham has argued that past politicians, rather than President Donald Trump, is to blame for the administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration enforcement policy that has resulted in more children being separated from their immigrant parents who have been criminally charged at the U.S. Southern border in recent months.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a ban on the importation and sale of child sex dolls favored by pedophiles, citing concerns that their use will normalize sexual exploitation of actual children.

A federal district court has permanently halted enforcement of the 2011 HHS birth control mandate, which requires employers to provide health insurance coverage for contraception and drugs that could induce an abortion, against two Christian colleges in Iowa.

Former evangelical psychologist and author Valerie Tarico, a graduate of the evangelical Wheaton College in Illinois, has claimed that babies who are in danger of being aborted in their mothers' wombs are about as human as zombies in some kind of science fiction movie.

The U.S. Department of Justice challenged the University of Michigan's Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities code Monday and declared it unconstitutional for limiting the free speech of students, some of whom say they were abused for wearing red "Make America Great Again" hats and supporting President Donald Trump.

A federal judge has ruled that a prison in the state of Washington must provide meals to four Muslim prisoners at night so that they can abide by the required Islamic tradition of fasting from sunrise to sunset during the holy month of Ramadan.

Leading evangelist Franklin Graham believes that President Donald Trump's meeting with North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Tuesday will benefit the highly persecuted Christian community in the isolated nation.