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Pope Francis has appointed Sister Simona Brambilla as the first woman prefect of a dicastery, reflecting the increasing presence of women in the management if not the ministry of the Catholic Church.
Muslim and Jewish exchanges and encounters have multiplied in Berlin and in the state of Brandenburg in recent years.
On/File: A Continuing Record of Groups, Movements, People, and Events Impactng Contemporary Religion
Albania is planning to create the world’s smallest, Vatican-style sovereign state within its capital city, Tirana.
1) Rather than leaving organized religion, some evangelicals who no longer feel comfortable in a conservative subculture are finding new spiritual homes in more progressive evangelical churches, such as Churchome, a non-denominational megachurch in Seattle.
Launched in 2019 by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC), the “Christians Against Christian Nationalism” campaign has been a relative success in making room for an evangelical voice critical of Christian nationalism in the U.S., although its influence on broade
1) Faced with declining membership, a number of Roman Catholic dioceses in the western hemisphere are considering reducing the number of parishes in order to coalesce around a smaller number of places of worship.
On/File: A Continuing Record of People, Groups, Movements and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
The Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) has caught the attention of journalists and social critics for seeking to revive a fraternal order for men of a Christian and conservative bent.
On/File: A Continuing Record of People, Groups, Movements and Events Impacting Contemporary Religion
Source: Emet Classical Academy.
1) Emet Classical Academy is the first Jewish classical school, seeking to “make sense of the West in a Jewish way.” Most cl