Among US Latinos, Catholicism still largest faith – poll
New York, US AP 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 […]
Israeli leader halts bill against Christian proselytising
Jerusalem AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said he would prevent the passage of a proposal by a powerful ally in his governing coalition to punish Christian proselytising with jail time. The proposal had raised an uproar with evangelical Christians – one of Israel’s strongest and most influential supporters in the United States. […]
Americans like Jews, Catholics and mainline Protestants. Evangelicals, not so much
United States RNS 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 […]
A changing religious landscape: Evangelicals now outnumber Catholics in three Central American nations – but some question the numbers
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA reports on the changing religious landscape in Central America…
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…
Stepping back: US evangelical influencers pan Trump as driven by “grievances and self-importance”
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports on the growing number of evangelicals willing to criticise the former US President…
Religious Americans less worried about climate change – poll
New York, US AP 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 […]
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 […]
Bolsonaro shores up evangelical support in tight Brazil election
Sao Paulo, Brazil Reuters Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro heads into Sunday’s election with strong support among evangelical Christians, a key demographic that his rival former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had been courting in a tight presidential race. Polls show Bolsonaro expanding his share of the evangelical vote as his campaign intensified its religious […]