Under Pope Francis, the College of Cardinals has become less European
Pope Francis’ picks for the College of Cardinals have tilted the leadership structure away from its historic European base and toward countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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Pope Francis’ picks for the College of Cardinals have tilted the leadership structure away from its historic European base and toward countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Incidents against Jewish people in 2020 ranged from verbal and physical assaults to vandalism of cemeteries and scapegoating for the pandemic.
Pope Francis made news recently by voicing his support for same-sex civil unions. The statement struck observers as a shift for the Vatican.
Today, most Black adults say they rely on prayer to help make major decisions, and view opposing racism as essential to their religious faith.
In addition to government actions, there also was a dramatic increase in Europe in some measures of social hostility to religion.
The global Muslim population is more concentrated in Islam’s main population centers than the global Christian population is for Christianity.
When compared with other wealthy nations, the U.S. is unique in that a large share of its population prays every day.
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