Why has Pentecostalism grown so dramatically in Latin America?
David Masci, Pew Research Center
With nearly 300 million followers worldwide, including many in Africa and Latin America, Pentecostalism is now a global phenomenon. But present day Pentecostalism traces its origins to a religious revival movement that began in the early 20th century.
Iraqi prelate raps Muslim silence on atrocities of Islamic State
Catholic World News
Iraq’s leading Catholic prelate has decried the silence of the world’s Islamic leaders in the face of the “barbaric” violence of the Islamic State.
Rabbi Sacks: Family Is Most Humanizing Institution in History
Zenit
Here is the address given Monday by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks at the colloquim underway in the Vatican on the complementarity of man and woman. The rabbi’s address was titled “The Family is the Single Most Humanising Institution in History.”
The poor want ‘dignity, not charity,’ pope says
Inés San Martín, Crux
Pope Francis called hunger and malnutrition a cause of scandal on Thursday, and declared that the poor of the world “ask for dignity, not charity.”
