“This is not about changing lives through elite performance,” said Valentina Piazza, project manager for CSI for the World, which operates outside Italy to provide sports programs to children in developing countries. “It’s about how sport helps young people learn from being together.” (Hernández, AP News)
Read MoreSingapore is the world’s most religiously diverse country as of 2020, according to a new Pew Research Center study. Buddhists (31%) are Singapore’s largest religious group, but its population also includes substantial shares of religiously unaffiliated people (20%), Christians (19%), Muslims (16%), Hindus (5%) and adherents of all other religions (9%). (Tong, Pew Research Center)
Read MoreA Canadian teen who killed eight people in one of the country’s worst mass shootings frequented the same gory websites that American mass shooters have been known to visit leading up to attacks in the U.S., investigators found. (Loria, USA Today)
Read MoreHundreds of millions of people are traveling to their hometowns or making overseas trips ahead of the Feb. 17 holiday, known in China as Spring Festival, in what is considered the world’s largest annual human migration. (Frayer et al., NBC News)
Read MoreThe Church of England has abandoned its gay blessing plans. The Church’s efforts to navigate the topic have faced repeated controversy after its Living in Love and Faith (LLF) process descended into infighting. (Swerling, The Telegraph)
Read MoreThe number of Latin Americans who say they are not affiliated with a religion has long been steadily increasing. And over the past decade, according to a 2024 Pew Research Center survey, the percentage of those known as “nones” roughly doubled in Argentina (to 24% in 2024), Brazil (15%) and Chile (33%); tripled in Mexico (20%) and Peru (12%); and almost quadrupled in Colombia (23%). (Teixeira, Religion News Service)
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