Emily Belz

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Articles

Supreme Court Rejects Nation's First Religious Charter School

2 weeks ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

The deadlocked court affirmed the Oklahoma Supreme Court's finding that the Catholic school would be functioning as a government entity. Celal Gunes / Anadolu via Getty ImagesIn one of the most anticipated rulings of its term, a divided Supreme Court blocked Oklahoma from launching the nation's first religious charter school. The justices deadlocked 4-4 over the case, resulting in them affirming the lower court ruling in the case.
Aid Cuts Could Disrupt Historic Drops in Child and Maternal Mortality

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

With clinics shutting down and orphanages filling up, Christian health workers worry about worsening health outcomes in Africa. A community health worker in Uganda, after losing his US-funded salary in the foreign aid cuts, continued doing his health-outreach work as a volunteer-and in a rural community he found a very sick child with HIV who had stopped receiving the antiretroviral treatment that keeps him alive and prevents potentially fatal infections from treatable diseases.
A Christian Medical School Opens for the First Time in 40 Years

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

The Nashville program joins a growing movement to teach future doctors a "whole person" model of health care. For the first time in more than 40 years, a new Christian medical school granting MD degrees has opened its doors in the US. A class of 50 students is finishing its inaugural school year now at Belmont University's Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine. That's 50 future doctors who could be reinforcements for a workforce facing severe shortages.
Juez federal permite las detenciones por estatus migratorio en iglesias - Christianity Today en espaĆ±ol

1 month ago | es.christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

La sentencia dice que la administración Trump no ha hecho de las iglesias su objetivo, y que la redada en una iglesia no representó un daño significativo. El viernes, un juez federal se negó a bloquear la nueva política de la administración Trump que permite a las autoridades de inmigración llevar a cabo arrestos en "lugares sensibles" como iglesias y otros espacios religiosos.
Federal Judge Allows Immigration Enforcement in Churches

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

The ruling said the Trump administration has not been targeting churches, and that one church raid wasn't significant harm. A federal judge on Friday declined to block the new Trump administration policy allowing immigration authorities to carry out arrests at "sensitive locations" like churches and other religious spaces. Twenty-seven Christian and Jewish groups had sued, saying the new policy violated their religious freedom under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The Secret Cure for a Health Care System Without a Heart

2 months ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

One of the last Christian medical schools in the US could change how doctors do medicine. Andrew Wai hit a breaking point as a third-year medical student. Exhausted from the pressure of doing rounds and studying for exams, he began viewing each patient as another barrier in between him and the end of his shift. "You ask me another question?" Wai thought at the time.
The Yo-Yo Between Life and Death in Global Health

2 months ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

Funding canceled. Funding renewed. New documents show the extent of the Trump administration's historic aid cuts, and the few programs saved. After years as a missionary and then a pastor, Mark Moore started a peanut butter factory in Fitzgerald, a small city in Georgia. His nonprofit Mana Nutrition makes ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), a peanut butter-based paste for severely malnourished children around the world.
Supply Chains Break and Hospitals Shutter After USAID Freeze

Feb 24, 2025 | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

Christian donations can only do so much to fill the gap when facilities grapple with layoffs, scarce drugs, and unanswered questions. A 300-bed Christian hospital in Eswatini has largely stopped seeing patients. Staffers at a Christian maternity clinic in Côte d'Ivoire are watching HIV drugs rapidly disappear from their shelves and do not know where to acquire more even if they can raise money for them.
How Baylor Is Facing Its Slavery History

Feb 18, 2025 | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

The Christian college is building a memorial to enslaved people, despite a national backlash against diversity initiatives. Amid the oak trees of Baylor University's Founders Mall, a beautiful green corridor that stretches down the center of campus, a memorial is under construction. The oaks have their own history as part of a tradition of students planting trees on campus, and now Baylor is adding to the landscape a reminder of some of its darker history.
Where Humility Leads to Lots of Home Runs

Feb 12, 2025 | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

Dallas Baptist University is a small school with one of the top programs in college baseball. What's the secret to its greatness? Coach Dan Heefner had a question. It was the first week of school at Dallas Baptist University (DBU), and the August sun was hot over the small Christian campus nestled into the hills along a shimmering lake on the outskirts of Dallas. Heefner ducked into an air-conditioned meeting room near the baseball field and stood in the front. The room was packed with young men.