The latest encyclical of Pope Francis takes its cue from the Roman Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus to elaborate a more general reflection on the heart.

“It is the result of the Roman Catholic Church covering up sexual scandals”, a study says. There were also almost 40,000 resignations among Reformed Protestants.

It is up to the church to be a magnetic people, living out the Gospel in a way that testifies to God’s authority, God’s control, and God’s presence in and over everything.

A study by an official Catholic news agency estimates that while the number of Roman Catholics increased by 14 million worldwide, it decreased by half a million in Europe.

Next year will certainly be a holy year of religious tradition, but it cannot be called a jubilee in the biblical sense.

The decline in membership of the two historic Christian confessions will have consequences: “Every fifth worship place will no longer be used for its original purpose”.

We are living through the waning and final phase of Pope Francis, and the topic of the future is not just an abstract exercise.

Attackers “burned the evangelical church, took the land, stole their cattle and destroyed the homes of 13 Christians”, pastors in the region denounce.

In five years, the percentage of Catholics has fallen from 67% to 54%, while atheists, agnostics and indifferent people have risen from 27% to 41%. Believers in other religions are at over 3%.

A Thomist answer and a preliminary evangelical critique.

At the United Nations Human Rights Council, the World Evangelical Alliance points out the obsolete procedures through which religious minorities must relate to the State.

I don’t want to condemn the church in the 1930s without acknowledging how easily cowed the church in the 2020s might prove to be. 

The Roman Catholic sacramental system, infused with causal efficacy, turns out to be a mirror of pagan systems of rites of passage associated with birth, adolescence, marriage and death, says the Parisian theologian.

Despite the continuing decline, the Roman Catholic Church continues to represent 24% of the population. The national Protestant Church also lost hundreds of thousands last year.

Daniel Ortega’s objective is to cancel Nicaragua’s civil society including churches that refuse to be subservient to the regime.

Papers were followed by discussions and informal conversations that helped participants refine the issues and share applications to their specific contexts in academic, ecclesial, or missionary service. A book with 11 authors is planned for the end of this year.

Around 450 Christians from various denominations gathered in Prague to engage in prayers for the country at the National Day of Prayer.

Members of Generation Z would be the most interested in opening up the Scriptures.

Ultimately, we must ask if we are prepared to review our traditions in light of Scripture as our ultimate authority and be willing to change accordingly.

Evangelicals in the area suffer persecution since 2016, with physical attacks, property destruction, looting, jail, and a ban of the use of water wells and schooling their children.

In cities like Basel, over half of the population does not adhere to a religion. Protestants fall most.

This is to regard Thomas as an indispensable interlocutor in the history of Christian thought to be read critically and generously in light of the principle of “sola Scriptura”.

In Spain, evangelicals have repeatedly called for a clear protocol to protect the head of state in the modern multi-religious context. No king has ever attended an event organised by evangelical churches.

The challenges of secularisation, disengagement, and abandonment of religious practice are putting increasing pressure on the Roman Catholic Church right here in the eternal city. Rome is still religious in its “hardware” but less and less so in its “software”.

Reinhardt Schink of the Evangelical Alliance says “forms of church can be adapted” but warns against decisions that strengthen individualism and “weaken the community of believers”.