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How White Evangelicals’ Vaccine Refusal Could Prolong the Pandemic Millions of white evangelical adults in the U.S. do not intend to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Tenets of faith and mistrust of science play a role; so does politics. Demonstrators hold signs during a protest outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta last month.Credit...Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg April 5, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET Stephanie Nana, an evangelical Christian in Edmond, Okla., refused to get a Covid-19 vaccine because she believed it contained “aborted cell tissue.” Na...

Across white evangelical America, reasons not to get vaccinated have spread as quickly as the virus that public health officials are hoping to overcome through herd immunity.

In his four decades as a minister, R. B. Holmes Jr. has never dealt with so much death. More than 24,000 Floridians have died from COVID-19, including more than a few of the flock that Holmes shepherds at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Tallahassee. “No one is immune from this,” Holmes told CT. “The thief is winning. The virus is a thief.” The black pastor is especially concerned that the coronavirus has disproportionately impacted his community and other communities of racial minorities around the state. According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Some NJ religious leaders urge faithful to take the COVID vaccine, despite some moral qualms Replay Video UP NEXT As Pfizer and Moderna begin to roll out their much anticipated COVID-19 vaccines at hospitals across the country, many religious leaders are urging their followers to receive it with open arms — despite moral qualms by some faithful.  Distribution of the vaccine began Tuesday in New Jersey among front-line health care workers, and it is expected to become available to the general public in the coming months.    The pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 300,000...

NorthJersey.com As Pfizer and Moderna begin to roll out their much anticipated COVID-19 vaccines at hospitals across the country, many religious leaders are urging their followers to receive it with open arms — despite moral qualms by some faithful.  Distribution of the vaccine began Tuesday in New Jersey among front-line health care workers, and it is expected to become available to the general public in the coming months.    The pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 300,000 Americans spared no religious, ethnic or racial group. But a considerable portion of the populati...