Religion News on the Web
Selected religion-related news from around the Web
October 25, 2012
- Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Evangelical support grows for Romney
Celebration Church sits tucked away in the corner of a repurposed shopping mall, one of the more modest venues for worship in this city of booming megachurches and superstar preachers.
October 23, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Mass. US Senate candidates vie for Catholic votes
Not so long ago, Catholic voters in Massachusetts were seen as reliably Democratic, helping propel fellow Bay State Catholics like John F. Kennedy and Tip O'Neill into the uppermost echelons of national government.
October 23, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: British conservatives play the abortion card
With hindsight, perhaps the most surprising thing is how long abortion has been off the political agenda in Britain. An intensely divisive political issue elsewhere, the subject rarely makes the front pages here.
October 22, 2012
- Reuters
Reuters: Gay marriage plan hits opposition, delays in France
Plans by France's Socialist government to legalize same-sex marriage are proving harder to enact than first thought after faith leaders and conservatives mobilized against it even as left-wing deputies try to expand it.
October 22, 2012
- The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Romney supporters make push for evangelical voters
Conservative activists are making a big push to drive evangelical voters to the polls, sensing that a large pool of voters with conservative Christian leanings who sat out the 2008 election could provide a surge for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
October 21, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: In Texas, a legal battle over biblical banners
In a barrage of recent e-mails, telephone calls and letters to his office, Kevin Weldon has been called some of the worst things a Christian man in this predominantly Christian town can be called: un-Christian, and even anti-Christian.
October 20, 2012
- The Economist
Economist: Over my dead body
VOTERS in Massachusetts will decide next month whether a terminally ill patient with less than six months to live should be able to use a doctor’s help in committing suicide.
October 20, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: Church appeal on Israel angers Jewish groups
A letter signed by 15 leaders of Christian churches that calls for Congress to reconsider giving aid to Israel because of accusations of human rights violations has outraged Jewish leaders and threatened to derail longstanding efforts to build interfaith relations.
October 18, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Protests as Ireland's 1st abortion clinic opens
The first abortion clinic on the island of Ireland opened Thursday in downtown Belfast, unleashing angry protests on the street and uniting Catholic and Protestant politicians in calls to investigate the new facility.
October 18, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Scholars say Jewish shift to GOP a long way off
Like Chicago Cubs fans in spring, Jewish Republicans start every presidential election season hoping this will be their year: American Jews, who have voted overwhelmingly Democratic for decades, will start a significant shift to the political right.
October 17, 2012
- USA Today
USA Today: Evangelicals mobilize for Romney campaign
The Romney-Ryan ticket is the first Republican presidential campaign in history without a Protestant candidate, but this hasn't deterred evangelicals from launching massive get-out-the-vote and registration efforts to help Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan win the White House.