Press Releases from 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C, Dec. 21, 2017—U.S. Sens. James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) have been added to speak at the 2018 Evangelicals for Life conference. The event, hosted by the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and Focus on the Family, will be held Jan. 18-20, 2018, at the JW Marriott in Washington, D.C. More than …
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WASHINGTON, D.C, Nov. 27, 2017—Tickets to Evangelicals for Life, the third annual pro-life event, are 50 percent off today when you use the code CYBERMONDAY at checkout. This event, hosted by the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and Focus on the Family, will be held Jan. 18-20, 2018, at the JW Marriott in Washington, D.C., …
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WASHINGTON, D.C, Nov. 10, 2017—The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and Focus on the Family are partnering together for the third annual Evangelicals for Life conference, focusing on pro-life issues Jan. 18-20, 2018, in Washington, D.C. Pro-life advocates recently focused their attention on the possible elimination of the adoption tax credit. The U.S. Senate moved …
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 27, 2017—Russell Moore, president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and Christian leaders across Tennessee joined together in denouncing the “White Lives Matter” rallies scheduled for Oct. 28 in Middle Tennessee. In a joint statement, Moore and others agreed, “As Christian leaders in Tennessee, we declare …
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WASHINGTON, D.C, Oct. 17, 2017—The third annual Evangelicals for Life conference will be held Jan. 18-20, 2018, at the JW Marriott in Washington, D.C., where more than 30 dynamic speakers and leaders from across the pro-life movement will gather to address issues regarding the dignity of human life, such as abortion, adoption, human trafficking, elderly …
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WASHINGTON, D.C, Oct. 10, 2017—The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and GuideStone Financial Resources stand together in opposition to a ruling issued by a federal district court judge on Oct. 6 that declared the ministers’ housing allowance to be unconstitutional. Russell Moore, president of the ERLC reacted to the ruling: “This ruling …
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WASHINGTON, D.C, Oct. 6, 2017—Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, commented today on the decision by the Trump administration to provide a robust religious liberty exemption to Health and Human Services’ contraceptive mandate, which provides employers with religious or moral objections an exemption to the requirement that they must pay for …
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WASHINGTON, D.C, Oct. 5, 2017—Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, assembled a broad coalition of evangelical leaders who joined together in a statement calling on Congress to provide a solution for Dreamers, the small subset of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children by …
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