Yes, most churches teach that a Christian may eat pork. The law of Moses forbids it to Israel in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14, but Mark’s Gospel says Jesus “declared all foods clean,” and Paul told the first churches not to judge one another over food. A few Christian groups still abstain, among them Seventh-day Adventists and Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. From the start, the question was about the table as much as the meat. The food laws had kept Jews…

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