Vance Defends Remarks on Second Lady’s Religion

JD Vance hopes his Hindu wife converts to Christianity, sparking debate on interfaith marriage

Vice President JD Vance recently told a packed college arena that he hopes his Hindu wife would someday convert to Christianity, thrusting into the spotlight the deeply sensitive challenges facing interfaith couples.Experts who have counseled hundreds of couples who don't share religious beliefs say the key is respect for each other’s faith traditions and having honest discussions about how to raise their children. Most agree that pressuring or …

JD Vance is right to hope his wife becomes a Christian

You wouldn't expect interfaith marriage to cause controversy in 2025. In the professional class, shared religion ranks well below shared ambition. The modern couple’s creed is compatibility — career, education, politics, lifestyle.So when JD Vance — a Catholic convert who once moved easily through the meritocratic elite — said he hoped his wife might one day share his faith, it struck many as strange, even retrograde. But that’s only because he …

JD Vance wades into choppy religious waters about wife Usha

As perhaps the most publicly religious member of the second Trump administration, Vice President JD Vance has long been an emissary between this White House and the right-wing Christian communities that form a core pillar of the MAGA tent. But Vance’s recent comments about wife Usha’s faith and upbringing in an Indian Hindu home have drawn intense criticism from multiple religious communities, even as the Vice President himself doubles down on h…

JD Vance Hopes Wife Usha, a Hindu, Someday Believes in Jesus

U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance doubled down on comments about his marriage, saying he hopes his wife, Usha Vance, converts to Christianity.

Why 'I hope she converts' is bad for Usha Vance, for love and for America

(RNS) — The skills that sustain interfaith marriages require the same virtues that sustain a pluralistic society.

I am Hindu. There's a message in how MAGA keeps biting Usha Vance, Patel, Ramaswamy

The repressive Christian nationalist climate is intensifying. Usha Vance, the wife of Vice-President J.D. Vance, has not been safe from it.