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Evangelical Christianity

July 2024

  • A favela in Rio.

    Rio’s ‘narco-pentecostal’ gangs accused of ordering Catholic churches to close

    Bible-bashing drug boss accused of targeting Afro-Brazilian religions and Catholic congregations

May 2024

  • Paul Marshall

    How faith drives bidder for Telegraph who wields growing influence on Tories

    Sir Paul Marshall, a co-owner of GB News, is building a media empire and accumulating political power
  • John Swinney walks with Kate Forbes down a corridor at the Scottish parliament in Holyrood; pale wood doorways and window frames are seen to either side of them. He wears a black suit, white shirt and tie, and she wears a black jacket over a skirt which is half bright pink and half red. They both look cheerful.

    Kate Forbes elected Scotland deputy first minister despite Green opposition

    Fresh row erupts over Forbes’s conservative views on equality – but appointment is approved by narrow majority
  • Prime minister Scott Morrison attends the 2020 Ecumenical Mass at the Presbyterian Church of St. Andrew in Canberra

    How good are memoirs? In his testimony to Christian faith, Scott Morrison talks to God and God talks back

    Plans for Your Good is not written for Australians at all – but for American evangelical Christians more interested in scripture than statecraft

April 2024

  • A man holds open a flag that obscures his entire body except his head, that says "Jesus is my savior, Trump is my president" in a stadium full of people wearing red, white and blue.

    Christian nationalists embrace Trump as their savior – will they be his?

    Christians opposed to infidelity and immorality have embraced a thrice-married man who can’t name a single Bible verse

March 2024

  • A flag that say "Jesus is my savior/Trump is my president" alongside an American flag tacked to a wooden fence amid trees along a rural road.

    The Exvangelicals review: fine study of faith under fire in the age of Trump

    Sarah McCammon of NPR brings personal experience and reportorial rigor to her portrayal of a growing Christian crisis
  • a person holds a flag that reads "Jesus is my savior Trump is my president"

    What Alabama’s IVF ruling reveals about the ascendant Christian nationalist movement

    Supporters of the idea that the US should be a Christian country have a foothold in politics – and are growing bolder
  • a man speaks in front of a background that reads "turning point action conference"

    The fight for democracy
    A far-right US youth group is ramping up its movement to back election deniers

    Turning Point USA and co-founder Charlie Kirk are raising $108m to mobilize Trump voters and ‘clean house’ of election officials

February 2024

  • a man stands on stage

    Trump warns of enemies ‘within our country’ to Christian media gathering

    The ex-president told the National Religious Broadcasters that ‘the greatest threat’ to the US is ‘people from within our country’
  • Sir Brian Souter

    Humza Yousaf ‘naive’ about links to evangelical Christian donor, say rights groups

    First minister faces questions after it emerged he courted Sir Brian Souter despite his hostility to LGBTQ+ rights
  • FILES-NIGERIA-RELIGION-DEATH<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 01, 2015 Nigerian pastor TB Joshua speaks during a New Year's memorial service for the South African relatives of those killed in a building collapse at his Lagos megachurch on December 31, 2014. - TB Joshua, 57, one of Africa's most influential preachers with millions of television and social media followers and who founded The Synagogue Church of All Nations, a Christian megachurch in Lagos, has died from an undisclosed cause, his church said on June 6, 2021 on Facebook. (Photo by Pius Utomi EKPEI / AFP) (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: From Lagos to Winchester – how a divisive Nigerian pastor built a global following – podcast

    From 2021: I first encountered TB Joshua as a teenager, when his preaching captivated my evangelical Christian community in Hampshire. Many of my friends became his ardent disciples and followed him to Lagos. How did he have such a hold over people? By Matthew McNaught

January 2024

  • Martyn Iles and the Ark Encounter

    The Australian who ascended to the helm of a Republican-linked fundamentalist Christian group

    Martyn Iles, the former head of the Australian Christian Lobby, is set to lead a lucrative creationist group that built a replica Noah’s Ark – and has fresh ambitions for Australia

November 2023

  • an illustration of John Chau in The Mission.

    The Mission review – a missionary comes a cropper on reaching an ‘unreached’ tribe

    Documentary traces a 21st-century American evangelical’s reckless efforts to convert an isolated tribe, and his fatal encounter with them

October 2023

  • FILES-FRANCE-HEALTH-VIRUS-RELIGION<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 4, 2020 in Mulhouse, shows the cross above the "Porte ouverte" evangelical church, where several persons have been contaminated by the new Covid-19 Coronavirus. - The Christian Open Door, a Protestant evangelical church founded in 1965 and affiliated to the National Council of Evangelicals of France (Cnef) opens its doors to worship on July 12, 2020, following the COVID-19 pandemic which brought most of the world into lockdown. According to the church website, Mulhouse and members of this church, is where the origin of one of the main outbreaks of the novel coronavirus broke out in February. (Photo by Sébastien BOZON / AFP) (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘This war is prophetically significant’: why US evangelical Christians support Israel

    One strand of evangelical theology holds that the return of Jews to the region starts the clock ticking on a seven-year armageddon, after which Jesus Christ will return

September 2023

  • In a large conference hall, we see a blonde white middle-aged woman, in full makeup, a black dress, and a red lanyard around her neck, lift her hands, eyes closed, appearing to sing, with others around her also appearing to joyfully sing.

    Evangelical Christians need Republicans. Does the party need them?

    The religious right is losing its grip as candidates respond to a voter majority that doesn’t support a federal abortion ban

August 2023

  • Faith leaders pray with Donald Trump during a rally at the King Jesus International Ministry church in Miami, in January 2020.

    Losing Our Religion review: Trump and the crisis of US Christianity

    Russell Moore, formerly of the Southern Baptist Convention, thinks evangelicals have come dangerous adrift of morality

July 2023

  • Sharon Slater, president of Family Watch International

    US Intel executive ‘actively responsible’ for driving anti-LGBTQ+ agenda in Africa, say campaigners

    Greg Slater is co-founder with his wife Sharon of Family Watch International, a US group accused of financing propaganda about sexual and gender diversity

June 2023

  • Pat Robertson, then a US presidential hopeful, speaking in Houston, Texas, in 1988.

    Pat Robertson obituary

    US TV evangelist who sought the Republican presidential nomination and helped make religion central to the party’s politics

April 2023

  • John Musira, a Ugandan MP, attends a debate in the parliament dressed in an anti-gay frock.

    UK government funded anti-LGBTQ+ organisation in Uganda, says report

  • deliverance2

    Demons be gone: meeting America’s new exorcists

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