Gallup poll: More than half of Americans rarely go to church
United States RNS The most popular church in America might be St Mattress, followed by Bedside Baptist. Those two – euphemisms for sleeping in on Sundays – increasingly describe the attitude of many Americans toward attending churches or other houses of worship. Mark Galli kneels in prayer before Mass at St Michael Catholic Church, on […]
US-Mexico border: Many Christian voters in US see immigration as a crisis. How to address it is where they differ.
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on the differing stances among US Christians on the issue of immigration…
Sight-Seeing: Poverty, potatoes and peace – timely lessons from Ireland’s turbulent history?
HEATHER KEITH, a writer with Baptist World Aid Australia, looks at what experience has taught her about praying and hoping for peace in our conflicted world…
Among US Latinos, Catholicism still largest faith – poll
New York, USAP Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, but the number of Latinos who identify as religiously unaffiliated continues to grow. Those are among the key findings in a comprehensive report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center that surveyed 7,647 US adults from 1st to 14th August […]
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…
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 […]
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 […]