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…
Report shows most faith groups agree US has gone astray but don’t agree on the way forward
United StatesRNS Three-quarters of Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction, and the majority of many religious groups agree with that sentiment, a new report shows. But they don’t all agree on what, exactly, has gone wrong. The 2022 American Values Survey by Public Religion Research Institute finds that religious Americans hold […]
US midterms: Faith groups weigh the impact of abortion on the polls
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports that there is growing uncertainty surrounding how religious voters and others will engage with abortion policy as they head to the polls in the US midterms next month…
In America, Catholics, Hispanics, young people most likely to voice climate concerns – survey
United StatesRNS Catholics and Hispanics are among the most concerned in the US about the impact of climate change, with Gen Z and millennials more likely to take collective action on the matter, according to a new survey commissioned by the international humanitarian agency Catholic Relief Services. While a majority of Americans (81 per cent) […]
Confederate memorials still divide Americans and religion is a big predictor – survey
United StatesRNS “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner once famously quipped. The Mississippi writer had it right – at least when it comes to the Civil War, anyway. A war that split America as it was fought continues to do so in its memory. An 2020 image of the late […]
Self-employed, Catholics drive Meloni’s Italian electoral triumph
Rome, ItalyReuters Self-employed people and Catholics helped power Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party to electoral victory on Sunday, surveys show, with a significant share of women voters putting her on course to be Italy’s first female Prime Minister. With almost all results counted, Brothers of Italy led with around 26 per cent of the […]
Essay: The Catholic Church is increasingly diverse – and so are its controversies
MATHEW SCHMALZ, professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross in the US, says – in an article first published on The Conversation – controversies within the church are reflective of much wider tensions within Catholicism…
Essay: Religion is shaping Brazil’s presidential election – but its evangelicals aren’t the same as America’s
In an article first published on The Conversation, AMY ERICA SMITH, associate professor at Iowa State University, looks at the role evangelicals will play in the upcoming Brazilian election – and how that may differ from the relationship between evangelicals and politics in the US…
Essay: Northern Ireland census shows more Catholics than Protestants – a political scientist on what this really means
LAURENCE COOLEY, of University of Birmingham, explores – in an article first published on The Conversation, what the latest statistics on religious affiliation in Northern Ireland mean…
More than 75 per cent of Republican evangelicals want US declared a Christian nation – study
United StatesRNS When it comes to politics, there are few things Democrats and Republicans agree on. One exception: Making America officially a Christian nation would be unconstitutional. That’s true even for Americans who would like the country to be Christian. Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. PICTURE: Harold Mendoza/Unsplash/Creative Commons Seventy per cent of Americans agreed […]