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(Photo: Unsplash/Mitchell Leach) While the number of Catholics worldwide slightly increased from 2021 to 2022, new statistics show that the number of priests continues to decline. The Vatican released the 2024 Pontifical Yearbook and the 2022 Statistical Yearbook of the Church earlier this month. Edited by the Vatican Secretariat of State’s Central Statistical Office, the publications are being distributed … Read more
(Photo: Unsplash/Nico Smit) Christian leaders have warned that religious freedoms in Australia are under increasing threat after the release of the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) highly anticipated report on faith-based schools on Thursday. The subject of widespread public commentary in the weeks leading up to its release, the report included the ALRC’s expected recommendation … Read more
(Photo: Unsplash/Morgan Thompson) There has been a significant increase in the number of people in Switzerland who do not have any religious affiliation. ‘Nones’ now comprise the largest group when it comes to belief – or lack of belief – comprising over a third of the population (34%). That marks an increase of more than … Read more
(Photo: Unsplash/John McArthur) A ground-breaking study, “Silencing Women,” highlights the devastating toll of women killed by their partners or family members in Kenya from 2016 to 2023. Femicide is the most extreme form of gender-based violence against women. It is often fuelled by gender stereotypes, harmful social norms and an unequal balance of power between men … Read more
(Photo: Pixabay) Persecution against Christians is expected to rise in several countries in the coming year, according to Release International. The organisation’s new Persecution Trends report, released this week, warns of an intensfication of persecution in a number of countries, including Nigeria, India, Pakistan and China in 2024. Nigeria has suffered one of its worst … Read more
The Archbishop of Canterbury (c) with Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra (l), a scholar and imam from Leicester, and former Assistant Secretary-General of the Muslim Council of Britain, and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg (r), Senior Rabbi of Masorti Judaism UK and Rabbi of the New North London Synagogue. (Photo: Neil Turner/Lambeth Palace) UK faith leaders, including the Archbishop … Read more
(Photo: Unsplash/Biel Morro) An update from the Observatory of Religious Pluralism in Spain has shone a light on the changing face of religious belief in the European nation, revealing some of the challenges and opportunities facing Christians in the traditionally Catholic country. Launched in 2011 by the Spanish Ministry of Justice, the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and … Read more