Economics and geography play a huge part in determining the level of religiosity among young people around the world, according to a new survey of international research. The research brief, put together by US group Child Trends, finds that young people’s religious belief tends to be stronger in countries where there has been a culturally...
A new Irish organisation dedicated to promoting feminism among younger women was launched last night, The Irish Times reports. The new group is called the Irish Feminist Network and it is aimed at tackling the decreasing levels of interest in feminism among young women. The network was started last May by Masters students at the...
Guidelines to Catholic schools on how best to integrate students of other faiths have been issued by the Joint Managerial Body/Association of Management of Catholic Secondary Schools (JMB/AMCSS). Among the recommendations is that, depending on the number of students of other faiths in the school, a decision should be made as to whether a prayer...
America may be a religious society, but levels of religious knowledge among Americans is low, according to a new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. The poll is similar to ones commissioned by The Iona Institute in 2007. The Pew Forum asked 3,400 Americans in a telephone survey to answer 32...
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will vote next week on a report which could drastically weaken freedom of conscience for healthcare professionals across Europe. The report says that conscientious objection should be limited to doctors and nurses but not to medical institutions like hospitals, that doctors and nurses with an objection...
A Catholic parish which fired an organist and choirmaster because he had been shown to be a bigamist and an adulterer breached his human rights, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has said. In a ruling last week, it held that Bernhard Schuth, 53, who lost his job in 1994 in Essen after his...
Dancers, bartenders and massage therapists have the highest divorce rates, while engineers, optometrists and podiatrists have the lowest, according to a new US study. The study, published in the spring edition of the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, is based on US census data from 2000. Co-author Michael Aamodt, a professor emeritus at Radford...
A new EU “gender equality” policy, advanced by the European Commission, is focused on further increasing the number of women in the workplace, to the exclusion of women who choose to work in the home. The new five-year strategy, adopted on Tuesday, sets out a range of objectives, which include getting more women into the...
Parents who have broken up must not depict one another as “ogres” to their children, Britain’s leading family law judge has said. Speaking to Families Need Fathers, Sir Nicholas Wall, the President of the Family Division of the High Court, said separated couples often used their children as “both the battlefield and the ammunition” in...
Men are ejected from their home in 99 percent of divorce cases where the court decides to award sole residency of the family home to one spouse, a new study says. The study, reported in this week’s Sunday Business Post, is based on the outcome of almost 500 judicial separation and divorce cases conducted in...
