Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
On January 10, 2022, Pope Francis issued a statement on COVID-19 vaccines. He stated that COVID-19 vaccination was a "moral obligation" and denounced "how people had been swayed by 'baseless information' to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives". [20] [21] [22]
Despite the decline in church attendance, Christianity remains the largest religion in Quebec, where 64.82% of people were Christians, according to 2021 census. [84] With the loss of Christianity's monopoly after having once been central and integral to Canadian culture and daily life, [87] Canada has become a post-Christian and secular state.
"The name of Jesus is above COVID-19": a message on a sign at Joy Christian Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota Devotees of the Black Nazarene observe social distancing as they attend Mass in front of Quiapo Church in Manila, Philippines on July 1, 2022. Sunday worship is livestreamed online due to social distancing.
Religious intolerance is on the rise as modern technologies merge with age-old authoritarian policies of oppression to increasingly target Christians across the globe in a yearslong concerning trend.
Paul Prather: The future looks worse for churches than even the present, as these larger numbers of younger, unaffiliated Americans age and as older, more religious generations die out.
Americans have been disaffiliating from organized religion over the past few decades. About 63% of Americans are Christian, according to the Pew Research Center, down from 90% in the early 1990s. ...
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
The head of the World Health Organization said on 4 August 2021 that rich countries had administered about 100 doses per 100 people while poor countries had administered only about 1.5 doses for every 100 people, and therefore, in his estimation, it was important to prioritize vaccination in poor countries before offering booster vaccines in ...