Camp Mystic, the 99-year-old Christian summer camp on the banks of the Guadalupe River, has for years given girls a place to be themselves, former campers say. Now, the popular all-girls camp set among limestone hills 80 miles northwest of San Antonio is the site of an unfolding tragedy. (Flahive, TPR)
Read MoreTibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday said the centuries-old Tibetan Buddhist institution will continue after his death, ending years of speculation that started when he indicated that he might be the last person to hold the role. (Saaliq, Religion News Service)
Read MoreBy December, the country wants to remove more than a million young teens from social media, under a groundbreaking law that sets a minimum age of 16 to use the platforms. But with fewer than six months before the new regulation goes into effect, much about its implementation remains unclear or undecided. (Kim, New York Times)
Read MoreThe Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to decide whether states may ban transgender students from playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity, revisiting the issue of LGBTQ rights in a blockbuster case just days after upholding a ban on some health care for trans youth. (Fritze & Cole, CNN)
Read MoreAs of 2020, people who identify with a religion make up about 76% of the world’s population, according to a new Pew Research Center study on global religious change. This is down by about 1 percentage point from 2010. The decline is largely due to people shedding their religious identity after having been raised in a religion. (Tong, Pew Research)
Read MoreFor the past 15 years, Jersey Road has been pitching stories about Christian organisations to the media. Our founding motivation was that we had a sense that the public narrative around Christianity – often influenced by the media – was narrow and stereotyped. The narrative often presented was that the Church was abusive by nature, and that churches are dying in the pews. (Jersey Road)
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