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  • 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.

  • 30 Jun 2008
    The other side of US religion and politics

    We hear a lot about the 'religious right' in the USA. But what about religious opinion of the centre and left?

  • 25 Jun 2008
    US religious right goes on the attack against Barack Obama

    A key figure on the US religious right, which is anxious that its political grip on the large evangelical constituency in America is waning, has launched an attack on Senator Barack Obama and his Christian credentials.

  • 30 Dec 2007
    A very political festival indeed

    Traditional categories of right and left don't always work when applied to faith, says Giles Fraser. Yet there is no comfort for the 'religious right' in the Christmas Gospel, which is about giving not consuming and love not power-mongering.

  • 9 Nov 2007
    Religious right defeated on lesbian and gay equality in the US

    Despite intense lobbying from the religious right in the USA, the Democratic-led House of Representatives has defied a White House veto threat by voting to outlaw workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation.

  • 26 Oct 2007
    Most Christians deplore prejudice, says American church leader

    The president of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCCUSA) says the majority of the Christians in America do not share a religious right pundit's views on Jewish people.