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  • 22 Nov 2011
    Huge five-fold increase in religious lobbying in Washington DC

    Organisations engaged in religious lobbying or religion-related advocacy in Washington DC have increased fivefold in the past four decades, says new research.

  • 18 Nov 2010
    Tea and (sparse) sympathy: transatlantic politics

    What does the liquid insurgency of the Tea Party movement in the United States mean for political processes on both sides of the Atlantic? Simon Barrow compares and contrasts government, opposition and voter disaffiliation in the UK and the USA.

  • 24 Jun 2010
    Touchdown Jesus meets the Cult of Palin

    Cheaply produced (if expensive to consume), Sarah Palin is a popular commodity whose religious saleability is evidenced by the merchandise generated around her, says Jeremy Biles. He compares and contrasts this phenomenon with that of the destroyed 'Touchdown Jesus' statue and asks what the iconography of faith says about actual belief.

  • 7 Jun 2010
    Decline in the US mega-churches

    The decline and problems faced by The Crystal Cathedral and other mega-churches has been an occasion for Schadenfreude for those inside and outside the Christian community, says Martin Marty. This is too simple and too judgmental a view.

  • 15 Dec 2009
    US conservative churches in decline

    Recently, a Pew poll demonstrated how many Americans mix faiths. But how long will there be faiths to mix in America? asks Martin Marty. And whither the conservative churches, in particular?

  • 18 Nov 2009
    Investigation exposes influence of Religious Right on homophobia in Africa

    Sexual minorities in Africa have become 'collateral damage' in church conflicts as US conservative evangelicals and those opposing gay priests, ministers and bishops within mainline Protestant denominations woo Africans.

  • 4 Jun 2009
    Lutheran leader condemns murder of US abortion doctor

    Lutheran leaders in the United States have joined other church chiefs in condemning the killing of abortion doctor George Tiller in the lobby of Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas, where he served and worshipped.

  • 17 May 2009
    Obama wins standing ovation for openness plea at Notre Dame

    After hardline Catholics had sought to prevent Notre Dame University from inviting President Barack Obama to give a commencement address, his call for people of divergent convictions to find common ground in reason and faith was warmly received.

  • 26 Mar 2009
    US Catholic university under attack over Obama invitation

    Hardline lobbyists in the USA have launched a campaign to try to stop one of the country's leading Catholic universities from having President Barack Obama as a campus speaker.

  • 8 Jul 2008
    Religion off the radar

    'Bartholomew's Notes on Religion' is undoubtedly one of the top-rank online resources on religious issues, especially those off the mainstream radar.