American evangelicals and the resistance to COVID vaccines | Americas| North and South American news impacting on Europe | DW
American evangelicals and the resistance to COVID vaccines Evangelical leaders in the US have helped sow distrust in public health professionals — and COVID-19 vaccines. But some church leaders within the ranks are confronting the resistance amid the coronavirus pandemic. Evangelicals for Trump coalition conference During the summer, when the coronavirus tore through the United States, misinformation campaigns promoted conspiracy theories that could jeopardize the health of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Many evangelical Christians — a loosely defined group of mostly doctrinally co...