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Old Age, Our Future: Vatican expands on its global call for protecting the elderly
As the IARJ's co-managing director, based in Italy, Elisa Di Benedetto reports on the Vatican's leading role in trying to motivate faith-related…
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Global Plus: End to American exceptionalism? Researchers find U.S. is part of Western drift toward secularism
Many researchers were startled by new reports that the Western trend toward secularism is also crossing the U.S., generation by…
Global Plus: Can the Catholic Church Change? Pope Francis and the long, winding road to revitalizing a troubled…
This latest Global Plus column comes from the journalist with the closest, ongoing access to Pope Francis: Sergio Rubin…
Global Plus: Breaking barriers, increasing understanding, one joke at a time
Lina Molokotos-Liederman, a researcher in sociology of religion in London, writes about the many connections between humor and religion. All of us feel…
Global Plus: The nonreligious in the world today
Who are the nonreligious? Depending on how they are counted, the nonreligious today may be considered the world’s third largest ‘religion,’ trailing only Christianity and Islam. They…
Tips for Journalists covering St. Nicholas, the real Santa Claus
St. Nicholas is one of the world's most popular Christian saints and some Christians are promoting celebration of his December feast day as an alternative to the overly…
Tips for Journalists Covering the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation
Two veteran journalists—U.S.-based David Crumm and Germany-based Maria-Paz Lopez—provide helpful tips to journalists planning to cover the 500th anniversary year of…
Global Plus: Religion and Death
Across the world, billions of worshippers this weekend will be going to mosques, temples, churches and other places of worship hearing messages declaring that the choices they make in this life can affect…
Global Plus: Research shows the power of humility
In a series of scientific advances, researchers are developing a body of evidence challenging old stereotypes of humility as the province of weak-willed, stoop-shouldered individuals of low…
The Church up close: Covering Catholicism in the Age of Francis
Issues of faith in public life dominate world news, but religion is often misunderstood or ignored in media coverage. It’s understandable. The world’s religions are the…