{"id":10665,"date":"2011-11-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/27\/religious-groups-spend-nearly-400-million-on-dc-advocacy\/"},"modified":"2011-11-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T12:00:00","slug":"religious-groups-spend-nearly-400-million-on-dc-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/27\/religious-groups-spend-nearly-400-million-on-dc-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Groups Spend Nearly $400 million on D.C. Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service<\/p>\n<p> WASHINGTON, DC, November 24, 2011 (RNS): The number of religious advocacy groups in the nation&#8217;s capital has more than tripled since the 1970s, with conservative groups seeing the biggest growth, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p> Together, faith-based lobbying and advocacy groups spend $390 million a year to influence lawmakers, mobilize supporters and shape public opinion, according to the report, released Monday (Nov. 21) by the Pew Forum on Religion &#038; Public Life. The report reflects shifting fortunes in religion and politics: the rise of the religious right 35 years ago, the decline of mainline Protestant churches and the outsized presence of the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>There are now as many Muslim advocacy groups as mainline Protestant groups, and evangelicals and Roman Catholics constitute a strong 40 percent of religious lobbyists in and around Washington.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Religious advocacy is now a permanent and sizable feature of the Washington scene,&#8221; said Allen Hertzke, a political scientist at the University of Oklahoma and the primary author of the report. Hertzke&#8217;s report surveyed 211 religious advocacy groups, ranging from the U.S. Conference of CatholicBishops to the American Jewish Committee to the American Friends Service Committee (the Quakers).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service WASHINGTON, DC, November 24, 2011 (RNS): The number of religious advocacy groups in the nation&#8217;s capital has,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}