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(SRN NEWS)-The primary finding of the Pew Research Center poll is that around the world, Catholicism is LOSING adherents while Protestantism is GAINING them.  The study also concludes that when a person leaves the Catholic Church, he usually becomes a Protestant, though some give up on religion altogether.  When a person leaves Protestantism he RARELY becomes a Catholic — usually opting to become unaffiliated. Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(SRN NEWS)-The number one reason that Americans give for tuning in their local religious broadcaster is because the programming provides spiritual encouragement.  That’s the word from the Pew Research Center, which reports that the second most common reason people listen to Christian radio is because they find it calms them down.  Pretty important in chaotic times.  The poll also finds Americans value religious broadcasting for its life advice. Brought to you […]

(SRN NEWS)-George Barna has been measuring America’s spiritual condition for decades and he believes the country is in trouble.  Barna, who heads the Cultural Research Center, says ““A quarter century ago, 12% of the adult population held a biblical worldview.  Since then, we have seen a steady reduction in that incidence.  We reached a low point—4%— in 2023.”  But Barna says the decline can be reversed if churches start focusing on […]

(SRN NEWS)-The Southern Poverty Law Center has long branded the ministry as a hate group because it opposes gay marriage and the LGBT agenda in general.  In 2012 a man entered the FRC building in Washington D.C. and opened fire, wounding one person.  Ministry leader Tony Perkins says the SPLC’s hate group designation “doesn’t just damage reputations, it has put lives at risk.”  He says the SPLC should pay the FRC […]

N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — At least 42 people were killed in eastern Chad after a clash between two families over a water point escalated into a cycle of reprisals, the country’s deputy prime minister said late Sunday. Limane Mahamat said during a visit to the village of Igote, in the Wadi Fira province, near the border with Sudan, where the clashes occurred on Saturday, that 42 people were killed and […]

MILAN (AP) — Venice’s renowned La Fenice opera house is breaking ties with the controversial incoming music director with ties to Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni following months of protests by musicians. General manager Nicola Colabianchi cited Beatrice Venezi’s “repeated and serious public statements that were offensive and harmful” to the theater and its orchestra for the decision to cancel future collaboration, the theater’s foundation said Sunday. Italy’s Culture Minister Alessandro […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal law enforcement officials are evaluating how to proceed with a number of high-profile public events featuring President Donald Trump after the attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The third violent assault in the vicinity of Trump in less than two years is renewing the central tension confronting the Republican president’s defenders: how to accommodate the public-facing demands of the presidency while minimizing the risk of […]

UNDERHILL, Vt. (AP) — Anne O’Connor just kept counting sheep, and it made her anything but sleepy. A sheep owned by O’Connor, who runs Clover & Bee Farm in Underhill, Vermont, with her husband, Gunnar, gave birth to a rare batch of six lambs earlier this month. The sextuplets and their mother are all doing well, making the lamb windfall even more remarkable. The same ewe previously had quadruplets, and […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone attack before dawn on Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa wounded 14 people, including two children, authorities said Monday, in the latest barrage of civilian areas that have been a hallmark of Moscow’s full-scale invasion, now in its fifth year. The drones hit residential neighborhoods and civilian infrastructure, said the head of the city’s administration, Serhii Lysak. Russia has repeatedly targeted Odesa, a key […]