{"id":19399,"date":"2016-12-15T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T10:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=19399"},"modified":"2016-12-15T10:12:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T10:12:16","slug":"mexico-religious-right-begins-to-assert-itself-in-secular-society-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/12\/15\/mexico-religious-right-begins-to-assert-itself-in-secular-society-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"MEXICO  Religious Right begins to assert itself in secular society  &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h1><strong>MEXICO<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Religious Right begins to assert itself in secular society<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The religious right is rising as a political force in Mexico, where the church has been relegated to the sidelines of public life for decades. Conservative Catholics and other Christian groups now attempting to influence the National Congress and mobilize the masses.<\/p>\n<p>The growing number of evangelical and non-Catholic congregations in Mexico are also becoming politically active. They have started their own group, known as the Social Encounter Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThis is a clash between the secular state and the sectors that don\u2019t accept the secular state,\u201d said Il\u00e1n Semo, historian at the Jesuit-run Ibero-American University in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a0\u201cpro-family\u201d marches have the Pope\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a sign of the pope\u2019s willingness to keep a good relation with the Mexican bishops,\u201d said Rodolfo Soriano-N\u00fa\u00f1ez, a sociologist studying the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>The use of religious symbolism is also increasing: Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador, a leftist who is among the front-runners for the 2018 presidential election, named his new party with the acronym MORENA, which is also a name for \u00a0Our Lady of Guadalupe &#8211; the popular national patroness.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless it remains to be seen how much influence the religious right will be able to yield. Support for the marches was mainly from \u00a0middle-class Mexicans rather than the downtrodden masses.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the long-standing opposition to the Church meddling in politics. A 2015 poll organised by the National Autonomous University of Mexico showed 42 percent of Mexicans were opposed to religious authorities influencing the vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThere are many Mexicans who are Catholic,\u201d said Semo, a historian, \u201cbut they don\u2019t want priests involved in politics.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO Religious Right begins to assert itself in secular society \u00a0 The religious right is rising as a political force in Mexico, where the church has been relegated to the sidelines of public life for decades. Conservative Catholics and other Christian groups now attempting to influence the National Congress and mobilize the masses. 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