Being a Christian means recognizing every person as a brother or sister and always being ready to lend a helping hand, Pope Leo XIV said.
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Meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I during his apostolic visit to the U.S. was “incredible” and marked a “historic moment of Christian unity,” said Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia.
Sub-Saharan Africa has replaced Europe as the locus for the world’s Christians, due to both higher birthrates and Western Europe’s “widespread Christian disaffiliation” — with Christians declining as a share of the world’s population due to adherents leaving the faith, according to new research by the Pew Research Center.