{"id":13130,"date":"2025-07-30T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=13130"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:00:18","slug":"how-churches-may-be-able-to-endorse-political-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=13130","title":{"rendered":"How Churches May Be Able to Endorse Political Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: How Churches May Be Able to Endorse Political Candidates<\/p>\n<p>By Elizabeth Dias, Gabriel Blanco, Nikolay Nikolov and Claire Hogan<span class=\"css-n2v9k\">\u2022<\/span>July 30, 2025<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13qem32\">The I.R.S. said that churches could endorse candidates from the pulpit, a change in a longstanding interpretation of American nonprofit law. Elizabeth Dias, the national religion correspondent for The New York Times, describes how and why it happened.<\/h2>\n<p>Recent episodes in <span class=\"css-1galvr2\">Behind the Reporting<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Show more videos from Behind the Reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: How Churches May Be Able to Endorse Political Candidates By Elizabeth Dias, Gabriel Blanco, Nikolay Nikolov and Claire Hogan\u2022July 30, 2025 The I.R.S. said that churches could endorse candidates from the pulpit, a change in a longstanding interpretation of American nonprofit law. Elizabeth Dias, the national religion correspondent for The New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[6826,6824,6825,1913],"class_list":{"0":"post-13130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-candidates","9":"tag-churches","10":"tag-endorse","11":"tag-political"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}