Since early summer, pastors, ministers, imams, rabbis and priests have stood between police and protesters in Los Angeles. They've been arrested by ICE agents in Chicago and Portland, and taken into custody at the U.S. Capitol and in congressional offices. (Wire, USA Today)
Read MoreThousands of pilgrims turned out Sunday in Romania’s capital for the consecration of religious paintings inside the world’s largest Christian Orthodox church that was being opened after 15 years of construction. (Ghirda & McGrath, AP News)
Read MorePope Leo XIV prayed Thursday with King Charles III and Queen Camilla under the frescoed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, marking a first time a British monarch publicly worshiped with a sitting pontiff since Henry VIII broke with the Vatican and formed the Church of England in 1534. (Faiola, The Washington Post)
Read MoreAccording to new data from UCLA’s Center for Scholars & Storytellers, Gen Z viewers are tired of on-screen sexual content. Released this week, the American university's annual Teens & Screens report, titled “Get Real: Relatability on Demand”, surveyed 1,500 young adults and teens aged between 10 and 24 in the US during August. (Mouriquand, EuroNews)
Read MoreSpain is having a nun moment. From pop charts to cinema screens and podcasts, the convent has become unexpectedly fashionable — and its image is selling as fast as the sweet pastries made by Spanish sisters. (Wilkinson, The Times)
Read MoreCongregations are aging, and tens of thousands of Christians have emigrated in recent years, largely due to Beijing’s imposition of a national security law in 2020 following Hong Kong pro-democracy protests. The decline in student numbers is compounded by the fact that Hong Kong has a large number of theology programs. (Maize, Christianity Today)
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