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Why Pope Francis chose to highlight religious freedom during his visit to Kazakhstan

Pope Francis spent three days in Kazakhstan, starting Sept. 13, 2022, to attend the Seventh Congress of World and Traditional Religions. The pope met with religious leaders, called for increased religious freedom and condemned religious justifications for war and violence.

The Conversation

America's Christian majority is on track to end

A new study shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the U.S. population within a few decades.

WEKU

The Lindisfarne Gospels review – was Eadfrith the monk Britain’s first great artist?

This mind-bending illuminated manuscript was created in AD700 by Eadfrith, a monk who was as entranced by pattern and abstraction as Jackson Pollock

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DeSantis’ ‘full armor of God’ rhetoric reaches Republicans. But is he playing with fire?

TALLAHASSEE. Fla. — While visiting a private Christian college in southern Michigan that wields influence in national politics, Gov. Ron DeSantis rephrased a biblical passage to deliver a message to conservatives.

Tribune News Service

New research identifies England’s oldest surviving church

Its construction marked ‘the official relaunch of Christianity in what would become England’ says archaeology professor

The Independent UK

'Smiling Pope' John Paul I takes the next step toward sainthood -- not all pontiffs earn this distinction

On Sept. 4, 2022, Pope John Paul I, born Albino Luciani, will be beatified: proclaimed as “blessed,” the last step before being canonized as a Catholic saint.

The Conversation

The Anglican split: why has sexuality become so important to conservative Christians?

The newly formed “Diocese of the Southern Cross” has broken away from the Anglican Church of Australia to form a denomination committed to a highly conservative position on sexuality and marriage equality.

The Conversation

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Online fraudsters, colonial legacies and the north-south divide in Nigeria

Millions of people with email accounts have undoubtedly encountered fraudulent emails that originate from Nigeria. Online fraudsters from the huge west African nation are also known as Yahoo Boys.

The Conversation

Religions have long known that getting away from it all is good for the mind, body and spirit

Summer vacations are coming to an end – though not everyone took one.

The Conversation

How centuries of self-isolation turned Japan into one of the most sustainable societies on Earth

At the start of the 1600s, Japan’s rulers feared that Christianity – which had recently been introduced to the southern parts of the country by European missionaries – would spread. In response, they effectively sealed the islands off from the outside world in 1603, with Japanese people not allowed to…

The Conversation

Christian nationalism goes mainstream

Christian nationalist ideology suggests that unless they control the state, the state will suppress Christianity

Salon

Look at God! Addison Rae deletes bikini photo deemed 'a mockery of Christianity'

Members of the Christian community took TikTok star Addison Rae to church over a social media post that some have deemed "a mockery of Christianity."

Los Angeles Times

Christians in Nigeria feel under attack: why it's a complicated story

Nigeria has a long history of religious tensions against which the current spate of violence against Christians must be seen.

The Conversation

Ex-pastor who moved to Scotland after Capitol riots blasts 'radicalised religion' in America

Jared Stacy, who no longer identifies as an evangelist, said rioters used Christianity as justification for violent behaviour – and he became concerned when church colleagues failed to condemn it.

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Spiritual union: why Gulf migrants are turning to evangelical Christianity

Pentecostalism is quietly thriving, with pastors saying churches are helping low-paid workers in crisis

Salon

Christianity in the dumps, GOP to blame

It's not lack of school prayer causing people to abandon faith, it's that Christianity has become a toxic religion

The Conversation

Christianity was a major part of Indigenous boarding schools – a historian whose family survived them explains

During a weeklong trip to Canada, Pope Francis visited a former residential school for Indigenous children in Maskwacis, Alberta, on July 25, 2022. The Ermineskin Residential School operated between 1895 and 1975 in Cree Country, the largest First Nations group in Canada.

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Pope Francis' visit to Canada: The complicated relationship between Indigenous communities and the church

“We call upon the Pope to issue an apology…” — Truth and Reconcililation Commission, Call to Action 58.

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Holy Woman's fleshy, feminist spiritual pilgrimage is a warning against religious coercive control

Louise Omer is on a global, but highly personal quest: from Australia to Ireland, Mexico, Sweden, Bulgaria and Istanbul. From Istanbul to Scotland, Italy, Germany, Morocco. And finally, to the cool waters of Džbán Lake in the Czech Republic.

Tribune News Service

Orthodox Christian church kicks off national conference in Baltimore

BALTIMORE — A jurisdiction of one of Christianity’s oldest churches will hold its national convention in Baltimore this week, marking the second time this month that a prominent Christian faith tradition has held its most important regular gathering in the city.

France 24

French young women on TikTok show off ‘Christian headscarves’ to share their beliefs

Some girls and young women living in France who are interested in Christianity are turning to TikTok to share their beliefs. In hundreds of videos, some of which have accumulated up to 3 million views, they wear headscarves and veils that they say help them get "closer to God". We…

The Conversation

What's behind the enduring popularity of crystals?

As New York City mayor Eric Adams attends ribbon cuttings, marches in parades and bulldozes dirt bikes, he wears an energy stone bracelet that his supporters gave him. In a recent interview, Adams discussed his belief that New York City has a “special energy” because it sits atop a store…

Bangkok Post

Fraternal dialogue

Reminiscent of the scene in Oscar-nominated film The Two Popes where Cardinal Julio Bergoglio (Jonathan Price) was led by the Swiss Guards up the long staircase to have audience with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) at the Apostolic Palace, a group of Buddhist monks and laymen were guided…

The Canberra Times

Ex-chaplain questions ongoing role of Christianity in armed forces

Division in Australian Defence Force over how Christian help for soldiers should be

The Guardian - AU

Ten things we learned from the 2021 census results: Christianity in decline and Australia hits 25 million

Christianity is in decline, millennials are catching up to boomers, and everyone was at home. Insights from the pandemic census night

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