The Pew Research Center said that while most Americans still celebrate Christmas, few of them care that religious elements seem to receive less attention than in the past.

Source: Is Christmas a Religious Holiday? A Growing Number of Americans Say No - The New York Times

Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski said although some resent the U.S. Catholic bishops’ advocacy on behalf of “illegals” - undocumented immigrants - “we stand in a proud moral tradition.”

Source: Miami archbishop: Fixing immigration system doesn’t mean demonizing migrants

Conservative Christian leaders are edging toward a once-improbable victory, having quietly worked for years to repeal a ban on political activity by churches.

Source: In Tax Debate, Gift to Religious Right Could Be Bargaining Chip - The New York Times

The First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs will reopen to pay tribute to the victims of Sunday's massacre. "It is our hope that this will be healing for everyone," the associate pastor says.

Source: A Week After Mass Shooting, Texas First Baptist Church To Open As A Memorial : The Two-Way : NPR

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has called for professional security and armed parishioners in church. “We are living in dangerous days,” Southern Baptist pastor Jack Graham said.

Source: After Texas church massacre, a push for armed guards and gun-packing parishioners - The Washington Post

California Governor Jerry Brown told a Vatican conference on climate change that the "Trump factor is very small. Very small indeed.” Brown said the majority of the American people support taking action to combat climate change, but warned work had to be done “to move aside the huge rock of indifference, complacency and inertia.”

Source: California governor uses Vatican conference to attack Trump on climate change

Source: Polygamous group slowly loses influence in longtime hometown | Religion News Service

As America watches its supply of housing considered "affordable" for low-income families shrink by an estimated 60 percent since 2010, the Archdiocese of Denver is doing something about it by opening a new "Guadalupe Apartments" complex of affordable studio, one- and two-bedroom units, while continuing to run a 60-bed "Guadalupe Shelter" for the homeless on the same site.

The sisters argue that the energy company is violating their religious freedom by taking their land by eminent domain for a pipeline.

Source: Nearly two dozen activists have been arrested where nuns are protesting a pipeline - The Washington Post

The Mormon church’s gradual embrace of the digital age for missionaries took another step forward as the religion announced it is nearly doubling the missions where technology is allowed and …

Source: Mormon missionaries now allowed more technology, smartphones – Las Vegas Review-Journal

The 40-year-old found sanctuary at the United Methodist Church on Broad and Arch streets shortly after President Donald Trump was elected into office.

Source: After 11 Months Hiding in a Philadelphia Church, Undocumented Immigrant Javier Flores Garcia Goes Home - NBC 10 Philadelphia

Source: Catholic Mobilizing Network marks the 15th World Day Against the Death Penalty | Religion News Service