Entries tagged with “Poverty” from Religion and Ethics Newsweekly

Senator John McCain continues to court religious conservatives. This week, he got the endorsement of Rev. John Hagee, founder of the group Christians United for Israel. Also this week, McCain appeared at a rally in Ohio with Rev. Rod Parsley, pastor of World Harvest Church, a megachurch in Columbus. Parsley is founder of the Center for Moral Clarity, a grassroots evangelical advocacy group. He says Christians have a biblical mandate to get involved in politics as a way of influencing the culture. In 2006, Parsley was accused of violating an IRS regulation that says churches, as tax-exempt institutions, may not engage in partisan politics. He denies any violations, but says churches must be allowed to speak out on issues from abortion to poverty.