Category - religious right

Religion off the radar

Simon Barrow — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:07:48 +0100

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

The other side of US religion and politics

Simon Barrow — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:45:08 +0100

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

US religious right goes on the attack against Barack Obama

staff writers — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:14:59 +0100

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.

A very political festival indeed

Giles Fraser — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:45:15 +0000

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.

Religious right defeated on lesbian and gay equality in the US

staff writers — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:38:41 +0000

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.

Most Christians deplore prejudice, says American church leader

staff writers — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:44:35 +0100

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.

Polish election result seen as a defeat for religious extremism

staff writers — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:13:10 +0100

The massive poll win for Poland's liberal-right Civic Platform party, which has ousted Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's hardline conservatives in the general election, is a defeat for extreme Catholic nationalism, analysts say.

Harry Potter gay revelation unlikely to thrill religious right

staff writers — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:33:07 +0100

Hard-line Christian groups who say mild-mannered Harry Potter is an occult conspiracy are unlikely to be reassured by news that one of its key characters is gay - even though JK Rowling has confirmed the series is based on Christian themes.

The End is Nigh in new Vatican art exhibition

staff writers — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:53:57 +0100

The End is Night - or then again, perhaps it isn't. That is the message of "Apocalypse: the Final Revelation", an art exhibition inaugurated this week in the Sistine Hall of the Vatican Museums which aims to cast new light on a controversial biblical book.

Making sense of religion in America

Jonathan Bartley — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:49:53 +0100

Those hoping that when George W. Bush departs the Oval Office, religion will accompany him are likely to be disappointed, says Jonathan Bartley, if a book by the former Guardian religious affairs correspondent is right.