Pope hopes Northern Ireland accord can be “consolidated” to benefit all Ireland
Vatican City Reuters Pope Francis said on Monday he was praying that the Good Friday Agreement signed 25 years ago that largely ended violence in Northern Ireland can be “consolidated” to benefit the people of all of Ireland. Francis made the comment about the 1998 agreement, which has come under strain following Britain’s exit from […]
Reconciliation and community-building: Grassroots faith leaders navigate a Northern Ireland in flux
PETER SMITH, of Associated Press, reports on how faith leaders are continuing the work of bringing separated communities together…
Americans like Jews, Catholics and mainline Protestants. Evangelicals, not so much
United StatesRNS What do most Americans think of faiths not their own? Not much. That’s according to a new Pew Research survey that asked 10,588 Americans if they had positive or negative feelings toward other faiths. Between 40 per cent and 60 per cent answered “neither favorable nor unfavorable” or “don’t know enough to say.” “It may speak […]
Essay: How much do Americans know about the faiths around them?
RYAN BURGE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at what the data shows…
“Iron sharpens iron”: As Pennsylvania’s ‘Bible belt’ evolves, clergy look to one another for mutual support
ELIZABETH E EVANS, of Religion News Service, reports that after the difficulties of the pandemic and amid a widening gap between people of different political persuasions, the clergy of one small town in this historically religious region have found mutual support in a ‘ministerium’ dedicated to community unity…
Survey finds a third of Americans are Christian nationalists and most are white evangelicals
United StatesRNS A new survey finds that fewer than a third of Americans, or 29 per cent, qualify as Christian nationalists, and of those, two-thirds define themselves as white evangelicals. The survey of 6,212 Americans by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution is the largest yet to gauge the size and scope of Christian […]
Brazil riots: Christians represented a significant faction of those who took part
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports that at least four evangelical pastors were among those arrested in the aftermath of the attack…
Hindu group to march for Adani port project in India amid Christian protests
Vizhinjam, IndiaReuters A Hindu group close to India’s ruling party will on Wednesday march in support of a $US900 million port project by the Adani Group which has been stalled by Christian protesters, as tensions rise after clashes in which 80 people were injured. Construction work at the project in Vizhinjam, in Kerala state, has […]
Religious Americans less worried about climate change – poll
New York, USAP Most adults in the United States – including a large majority of Christians and people who identify with other religions – consider the Earth sacred and believe God gave humans a duty to care for it. But highly religious Americans – those who pray daily, regularly attend religious services and consider religion […]
US midterms: Christian voter trends reinforced on abortion, GOP
DAVID CRARY, PETER SMITH and NUHA DOLBY, of Associated Press, report on what the data shows about evangelical and Catholic voter trends…