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In Arkansas, gambling opponents took over $21M from Choctaw Nation to fight competing casino
As the old saying goes “politics makes strange bedfellows.” That proverb fits a situation in Arkansas involving a proposition to allow casino gambling, where an anti-gambling group led by church leaders took casino-interest money to ...
Mana Nutrition producing life-saving peanut butter again as staffers wait to learn when it will be shipped to children in need.
Mana Nutrition, a ministry supported by Churches of Christ and used in global relief efforts, is among a host of nonprofits worldwide that receive grants from USAID.
The hope, said one leader, is to dispute the idea that Christians are in support of USAID’s cuts
Evangelical Christian groups are calling on Congress to reinstate foreign aid programs shuttered by President Donald Trump’s administration, arguing the government’s actions will hurt millions of people around the world.
State Superintendent fundraising to buy 55K ‘God Bless The USA’ Bibles
Oklahoma’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is asking Americans to donate money to send leather-bound Bibles into Sooner State public school classrooms, now that the state legislature nixed a funding request.
Three bills currently proposed would void NDAs when they prohibit reporting and disclosure of child sexual abuse.
Texas legislators have proposed bills that would make certain nondisclosure agreements in child sexual abuse cases void and unenforceable. State Rep. Jeff Leach, a Republican from Plano, authored House Bill (HB) 748, and Republican Sen. ...
Overland Missions added to database, government grants takes top story, and salary data for ministry leaders
Here at MinistryWatch, one of our goals is to equip donors with the information they need to make wise decisions with their giving. That’s why we manage our database, which rates more than 1,000 of ...
Bills reintroduced in House and Senate after failing last year
Ministers who regret opting out of Social Security may soon get to reverse that decision.
The hidden risks and loopholes of nonprofit dissolutions.
Despite amassing billions of dollars in charitable contributions every year, a surprising number of nonprofits (about 30%) don’t survive beyond a decade.
The city denied Hope Rising Church’s zoning variance application
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has intervened in a case involving a city’s use of zoning ordinances to stop the expansion of a church congregation.
Terminations come despite two separate lawsuits aimed at Trump’s freeze of refugee program
President Donald Trump’s administration is making moves to shutter a decades-old partnership between the government and a group of mostly religious organizations to resettle refugees.
