A new Harris Poll suggests Generation Z adults are now the U.S. age group most likely to describe themselves as religious, bucking years of data showing younger Americans drifting from organized faith. In the nationally focused survey, 33% of Gen Z respondents said they consider themselves “religious,” compared with 18% of baby boomers, 22% of Generation
Heavy drinking among Americans in their 50s and early 60s has surged even as younger adults cut back, according to new national data from Keck Medicine of USC. The study, published this week in Annals of Internal Medicine, finds that overall alcohol use in the United States fell between 2022 and 2024, while heavy drinking
The Trump administration has informed Congress that most of the 17,500 refugees it plans to admit in fiscal year 2027 will be white South Africans from the country's Afrikaner minority. The announcement has intensified concern among Christian and other faith-based refugee agencies, which say persecuted believers and other vulnerable minorities are being left with no
Equipping the Persecuted, a U.S.-based ministry focused on Nigerian Christians, is urging the United Nations to recognize what it calls a genocide in Nigeria’s Middle Belt after a weekend terror alert through its Truth Nigeria network was credited with reducing casualties in fresh attacks that left at least 60 people dead. According to Equipping the Persecuted,
Pope Leo XIV is set to place the Vatican at the centre of global debates over artificial intelligence when he addresses a high-level gathering at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on 25 September 2026. UNESCO says the visit, organized at the invitation of Director-General Khaled El-Enany, will focus on contemporary challenges related to artificial intelligence, information
A nationwide Christmas campaign backed by multiple UK church networks is preparing to mobilise up to 500,000 Christians across 5,000 congregations this December, with a deliberate focus on people who are lonely or isolated, including tens of thousands of prisoners. Organisers of Shine Your Light say the 2026 effort will centre on simple carol singing,
The Church of England’s move to allow prayers of blessing for same-sex couples in regular services has drawn sharp criticism from conservative Anglicans, who say the policy change goes beyond what historic teaching and previous agreements in the denomination can bear. After a lengthy “Living in Love and Faith” (LLF) process on sexuality and relationships, the
President Donald Trump has declared that journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico are banned from the White House, a move that has intensified his long-running confrontation with the press and raised fresh questions about press freedom and how such a ban could be enforced. The announcement came on September 18, 2026, in a post on
A major new survey by the Evangelical Alliance suggests that evangelicals now make up roughly two-thirds of practising Christians in the United Kingdom, painting a picture of a church that is younger, more ethnically diverse and more male than the wider population. The findings come from a nationwide study of more than 8,400 adults, which
New national data from Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute suggest that, despite talk of marriage’s decline, single adults in the United States are more likely to say they want to marry someday than they were a decade and a half ago, even as they take longer to get there and grow more open to relationships across