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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for first time
Belfast, Northern Ireland Reuters Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for the first time, census results showed on Thursday, a historic shift that some see as likely to help drive support for the region to split from Britain and join a united Ireland. The shift comes a century after the Northern Ireland state was […]
Essay: Telling the untold stories of Indigenous religious minority women in Mexico
ELLIS HEASLEY, of UK-based religious freedom advocacy CSW, highlights the findings of a recent CSW report on Indigenous religious minority women in Mexico…
Changing practices: How a surge of evangelicals in Spain is being fuelled by Latin Americans
ALBERTO ARCE, of The Associated Press, reports on how huge surges in Spain’s migrant and evangelical population in recent decades is producing profound changes in how faith is practiced in a country long dominated by the Catholic church…
Poll: America growing more secular by the year
RNS Christmas is just 10 days away, and most Americans will celebrate the birth of Jesus. But a new poll from Pew shows the share of US adults who consider themselves Christian is falling. Only 63 per cent of Americans self-identify as Christian this year, a marked drop from 75 per cent 10 years ago. The declining […]
In the US, white mainline Protestants outnumber white evangelicals, while ‘nones’ shrink – survey finds
RNS White Christian decline has slowed. Mainline Protestants now outnumber white evangelicals. New York is home to several of the most religiously diverse counties in the US. These shifts and findings are among some of the notable revelations documented in a sweeping and exhaustive survey of the US religious landscape by the Public Religion Research Institute. The […]