From highs to lows, Everest record breaker sees ‘no future’ in Nepal
Kathmandu, NepalReuters Kami Rita Sherpa had stood at the top of world just days earlier, exultant at having summited Mount Everest for a record 28th time. Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, a Nepali Mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest for a record 28 times, poses for a picture at his rented apartment in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 28th […]
Mental health: How the teen crisis is turning some youth pastors into first responders
Young people, youth pastors in the US say, are pushing the church to be more willing to talk about mental health. ELIZABETH E EVANS, of Religion News Service, reports…
Spain to help young citizens fly the nest with foreclosed homes
Madrid, Spain Reuters Spain is aiming to help millions of young adults still living with their parents to rent their own homes by offering them properties abandoned when its housing market collapsed a decade ago. The rising cost of rent is set to become a key campaign issue as Spain gears up for regional ballots […]
Vatican’s highest-ranking nun, Nathalie Becquart, talks synodality with young Catholics
United StatesRNS Sister Nathalie Becquart, the highest-ranking woman at the Vatican, dropped into St Paul the Apostle Church in Manhattan on Tuesday evening to talk to and about young Catholics, and particularly young women in the church. The French nun, who is shepherding a worldwide survey of Catholics ahead of a fall meeting of bishops on […]
Young Portuguese defer dreams as housing crisis bites
Lisbon Reuters When Maria Lopes moved to Lisbon from the northern Portuguese city of Tondela, her goals were straightforward: study, find a job, get a place of her own. But a decade on, she still lives in a tiny, rented room – one of tens of thousands of young Portuguese hit by a housing crisis […]
Pope urges Congo youth to reject corruption and they respond
Kinshasa, Congo AP Pope Francis led Congo’s young people in a rousing denunciation of political corruption on Thursday, turning an otherwise scripted meeting with church catechists into a rally that shook the capital’s sports stadium. Francis was repeatedly interrupted as some of the 65,000 people in Kinshasa’s Martyrs’ Stadium took up his call to say […]
Exploring the call: How the Church of England is helping young people find their vocation
ANGELA YOUNGMAN looks at how the Church of England is helping young people find their calling in the church…
Postcards: In Philadelphia, artwork brings Catholic Church’s synod to life
KYLE DESROSIERS, of Religion News Service, reports on how artwork reflecting the thoughts of young Catholics in Philadelphia points to the contentious issues swirling as the continental phase of the Synod on Synodality begins…
Religion and spirituality can aid youth mental health crisis – US study
United StatesRNS Born into a tech-saturated world shaken by domestic terrorism, ecological devastation and economic instability, Gen-Zers are more likely to report mental health concerns like anxiety and depression than older generations. In many ways, the pandemic has forced mental health discourse into the limelight, prompting the US surgeon general to issue an advisory last December on COVID-19’s “devastating” […]
Sight-Seeing: In faith communities, Gen Z minorities struggle to find belonging
JOSH PACKARD, executive director of Springtide Research Institute, and HANNAH TURNER, a research intern at the institute, write – in an article first published on Religion News Service – about what data reveals about the relationship between minority youth and churches…