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Jews and Catholics warn against Trump’s latest loyalty test for religious voters

LA Times

Former President Trump acknowledges the crowd as he exits the stage after speaking at the Israeli American Council National Summit on Thursday in Washington. Jews and Catholics can vote for him and ace the test, but those who don’t, he says, “need their head examined.” If he loses, Trump added, “Jewish people would have a lot to do with the …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Jews and Catholics warn against Trump’s latest loyalty test for religious voters

Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump recently reissued his loyalty test to religious Americans, declaring that he can best protect their freedoms while preemptively blaming members of certain faiths should he lose the presidential election in November. Jews and Catholics can vote for him and ace the test, but those who don’t, he says, “need their head examined.” If he loses, Trump …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump's transformation into a religious totem turns Christian nationalism toxic

Salon

Public opinion polls show that 47 percent of registered voters support Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Your new polling and other work examine the role of the authoritarian personality in support for Donald Trump and his neofascist MAGA movement, specifically among white Christians. First, nearly half of white evangelical Protestants and nearly four in ten Republicans agree with the …

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4 months ago

Pope to meet Papua New Guinea Catholics who embrace both Christianity and Indigenous beliefs

Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia — Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part of the South Pacific island nation where Christianity is a recent addition to traditional spiritual beliefs developed over millennia. Papua New Guinea is an overwhelmingly Christian country — a 2000 census showed 96% of the population identified with the religion — but the …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

MAGA has a Catholic gender gap problem — and it could spell trouble for Trump

Salon

Catholic school nuns practically canonized John F. Kennedy, never ceasing to remind us students that he was the first Catholic President. If lay Catholics are tepid in their support, many clergy are downright hostile toward the President, adopting what Timothy Busch of the right-wing Napa Institute calls “in-your-face Catholicism.” A large majority of the Council of Catholic Bishops voted to …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Catholic diocesan hermit approved by Kentucky bishop comes out as transgender

Associated Press

— Diocesan hermits by nature don’t get much attention. “I live in a hermitage at the top of a wooded hill, which I share with my German Shepherd rescue, Odie, and with the Blessed Sacrament, which was installed in my oratory shortly before Christmas.” Raised in the Presbyterian Church, Matson converted to Catholicism in 2010 — four years, he noted, …

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9 months, 1 week ago

MAGA’s Christian nationalism excludes a vast majority of Christianity

Raw Story

You have probably heard a lot of scary things in the news lately about something called “Christian nationalism.” Without going into the weeds about what these people want in terms of policy, it’s important to understand who they are, and who they are is pretty simple: people who believe America was founded as a Christian nation for Christians. READ: Why …

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10 months ago

Many Christian voters in US see immigration as a crisis. How to address it is where they differ.

Associated Press

MIAMI — Christian voters and faith leaders have long been in the frontlines of providing assistance to migrants — but when it comes to support for immigration policies, from border security to legalization options for migrants already in the U.S., priorities diverge broadly. When asked why they think large numbers of migrants are trying to cross the border, about 7 …

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11 months, 1 week ago

PM Modi’s visits, BJP’s Sneh Yatra: How saffron woos Kerala

Hindustan Times

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Sneha Yatra, aimed at the Christian community, has drawn mixed reactions — surprise from some quarters, and keen interest from some others. On the face of it, the yatra was organised by Kerala BJP party President K Surendran to meet senior leaders of the Christian community to convey Prime Minister Modi’s Christmas and New Year wishes. …

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$How to deal with same-sex unions? It’s a question fracturing major Christian denominations$

1 year ago

How to deal with same-sex unions? It’s a question fracturing major Christian denominations

Associated Press

Catholics around the world are sharply divided by the Vatican’s recent declaration giving priests more leeway to bless same-sex couples. Ryan Burge, a political science professor at Eastern Illinois University and pastor of an American Baptist church, says it’s become increasingly difficult for Christian denominations to fully accommodate clergy and congregations with opposing views on same-sex relationships, particularly as such …

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1 year ago

Activists hope pope’s approval of same-sex blessings will ease anti-LGBTQ+ bias and repression

LA Times

Wolfgang Rothe, left, blesses Christine Walter, center, and Almut Muenster during a service in St. Benedict’s Church in Munich in 2021. “Given the homophobic and transphobic climate created by many bishops in the United States, the average same-sex couple likely still won’t feel comfortable presenting themselves to their local bishop or priest to ask for a blessing,” said Jamie Manson, …

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1 year ago

Activists hope pope’s approval of same-sex blessings could ease anti-LGBTQ+ bias and repression

Associated Press

ROME — Pope Francis’ green light for Catholic priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples is in many ways a recognition of what has been happening in some European parishes for years. Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document released Monday Dec. 18, 2023 explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by …

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1 year, 3 months ago

The role of the Church in Kerala’s politics

Hindustan Times

Bins Abraham owns a 12-acre rubber plantation in Erattupetta, a plantation town nestled in the foothills of the Western Ghats. Though the term “love jihad” was coined by Right-wing Hindu groups in 2007, the Catholic Church in Kerala began to use it as an instrument to discourage inter-religious marriages. In January 2020, the synod or highest administrative body of Syro-Malabar …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Pakistan’s Punjab government announces Rs 2 million for riot-hit Christian families

Firstpost

A mob ransacked and torched 21 churches and several houses of Christians last week over blasphemy allegations in Jaranwala town of Faisalabad district, 130 km from Punjab’s provincial capital Lahore. A Christian cemetery and the office of the local assistant commissioner were also vandalised Pakistan’s Punjab government on Monday announced a compensation of Rs 2 million for around 100 Christian …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Pakistan Church Attacks: 94 Christian Families To Receive Rs 2 Million Each, Punjab Govt Announces

ABP News

Lahore: Pakistan's Punjab government on Monday announced a compensation of Rs 2 million for around 100 Christian families whose homes were burnt down by radical Islamists last week over allegations of blasphemy. An enraged mob ransacked and torched 21 churches and several houses of Christians last week over blasphemy allegations in Jaranwala town of Faisalabad district, 130 km from Punjab's …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Pope announces World Youth Day to return to Asia in 2027, urges young people ‘not to be afraid’

Associated Press

LISBON, Portugal — Pope Francis told young people on Sunday the Catholic Church needs them and urged them to follow their dreams as he wrapped up World Youth Day in Portugal with a massive open-air Mass and an announcement that the next edition would be held in Asia for the first time in three decades. News that Seoul, South Korea …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Ron DeSantis Catholic or evangelical: The candidate’s odd religion politics.

Slate

When Ron DeSantis strode onto the stage in April in front of almost 10,000 students at Liberty University, he did so with an introduction from the school’s chancellor, pastor Jonathan Falwell, son of legendary televangelist Jerry Falwell. “You’re moving out of that Catholic sense of the world and moving into something maybe evangelical, maybe Manichean.” Still, even if DeSantis strays …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Religious groups protest Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence before Dodgers’ Pride Night

LA Times

Christian and Catholic groups protest at Dodger Stadium hours before the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are honored on Dodgers’ Pride Night. “We’re all a community and we all need to be rooting for one team and one common goal — which is beating the opponent.” VIDEO | 05:31 Following the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Dodgers Pride Night Around 5 …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Grassroots faith leaders navigate a Northern Ireland in flux

Associated Press

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Teenagers from Catholic and Protestant youth groups lit candles on a Belfast street in memory of those who perished in the Holocaust, then listened solemnly to a warning about the dangers of Northern Ireland’s own infamous religious bigotries. “Let’s show people that love works, but it has to be genuine love, not preaching at them.” The …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Grassroots faith leaders navigate a Northern Ireland in flux

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We all know what prejudice is,” said Stephen Hughes, …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Grassroots faith leaders navigate a Northern Ireland in flux

LA Times

Jonny Clark, program manager for public theology at Corrymeela, an organization that has worked for decades toward reconciliation in Northern Ireland, visits the peace walls in west Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Jan. 28. The violence largely ended 25 years ago this month with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which laid out a political process for resolving Northern Ireland’s …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Hate crimes against Catholics witness ‘largest spike’ in Canada, reveals Christian think tank

Firstpost

The report, titled Toward a Hopeful Future: Facing Down Religious Hate, shows that hate crime against Catholic Christians jumped from 43 to 155 cases within a year between 2020 and 2021 Ottawa: A report by a Canadian non-partisan Christian think tank called Cardus found that 2021 witnessed the “largest spike” in hate crimes motivated by religion, most of which occurred …

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2 years ago

Former Pope Benedict XVI dies aged 95 after battle with illness

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A statement from Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni said: “With …

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2 years ago

'Tis the Season To Woo Christians: Eye on 2024 Polls, BJP Organises Christmas Celebrations

News 18

The Bharatiya Christian Manch, headed by Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson, has begun an outreach programme with the community to promote the development agenda of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said he had already invited him and he would see that the Pope comes to India: Archbishop Mar Andrews Thazhath on meeting with PM Narendra Modi pic.twitter.com/WsbjnVCfV1 — ANI December …

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Jews and Catholics warn against Trump’s latest loyalty test for religious voters

Jews and Catholics warn against Trump’s latest loyalty test for religious voters

Trump's transformation into a religious totem turns Christian nationalism toxic

Pope to meet Papua New Guinea Catholics who embrace both Christianity and Indigenous beliefs

MAGA has a Catholic gender gap problem — and it could spell trouble for Trump

Catholic diocesan hermit approved by Kentucky bishop comes out as transgender

MAGA’s Christian nationalism excludes a vast majority of Christianity

Many Christian voters in US see immigration as a crisis. How to address it is where they differ.

PM Modi’s visits, BJP’s Sneh Yatra: How saffron woos Kerala

How to deal with same-sex unions? It’s a question fracturing major Christian denominations

Activists hope pope’s approval of same-sex blessings will ease anti-LGBTQ+ bias and repression

Activists hope pope’s approval of same-sex blessings could ease anti-LGBTQ+ bias and repression

The role of the Church in Kerala’s politics

Pakistan’s Punjab government announces Rs 2 million for riot-hit Christian families

Pakistan Church Attacks: 94 Christian Families To Receive Rs 2 Million Each, Punjab Govt Announces

Pope announces World Youth Day to return to Asia in 2027, urges young people ‘not to be afraid’

Ron DeSantis Catholic or evangelical: The candidate’s odd religion politics.

Religious groups protest Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence before Dodgers’ Pride Night

Grassroots faith leaders navigate a Northern Ireland in flux

Grassroots faith leaders navigate a Northern Ireland in flux

Grassroots faith leaders navigate a Northern Ireland in flux

Hate crimes against Catholics witness ‘largest spike’ in Canada, reveals Christian think tank

Former Pope Benedict XVI dies aged 95 after battle with illness

'Tis the Season To Woo Christians: Eye on 2024 Polls, BJP Organises Christmas Celebrations