Global South
Citing inclusion of LGBT clerics, Anglican bishops in Africa to shun Lambeth Conference
By Fredrick Nzwili — May 29, 2019
(RNS) — The boycott widens the split within the communion, which has struggled to stay together despite doctrinal differences over the ordination of homosexuals and blessing of same-sex unions.
Where is Christianity headed? The view from 2019
By Wesley Granberg-Michaelson — January 10, 2019
(RNS) — The Western church's powerful shaping of Christianity for the past four centuries is being challenged in ways that may hold the keys to its revitalization.
Catholic bishops end synod with controversy and compromise
By Thomas Reese — October 29, 2018
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The synod's report deals with a host of issues of concern to young people: treatment of women in society and in the church, the church’s attitude toward LGBT members, clerical sex abuse, warfare, poverty, migration, human trafficking and corruption. But the work must continue in local churches.
Four trends that demand Christian and Jewish leaders’ attention
By Lauren Markoe — January 30, 2018
(RNS) — Four powerful and irreversible forces are rapidly transforming the Jewish and Christian worlds.
The Anglican Communion is already divorced (COMMENTARY)
By Trevin Wax — September 21, 2015
(RNS) For decades now, traditional Anglicans have watched leaders in the West abandon key components of historic Christianity.
Evangelicals want to follow the Global South on gays. They should be careful what they ask for (COMMENTARY)
By Jonathan Merritt — May 8, 2015
(RNS) When it comes to LGBT rights, calls for dialogue with global Christians are more about political posturing than a desire to really listen to our global brothers and sisters.
ANALYSIS: Pope Francis’ cardinals point the way to Catholicism’s future
By David Gibson — January 12, 2014
(RNS) A church for the poor, a church of the Southern Hemisphere, a church not focused on hierarchical perks, and a church led by pastors and doctrinal moderates: In naming his first batch of new cardinals on Sunday (Jan. 12), Pope Francis made some surprising choices that confirmed where he wants Catholicism to go in the future.
Catholic population surges across the Global South
By Alessandro Speciale — May 13, 2013
VATICAN CITY (RNS) While the number of Catholic priests in the Americas and in Europe is declining compared to the overall Catholic population, those losses were offset by increasing ranks of permanent deacons.
GUEST COMMENTARY: Why the next pope should come from the Global South
By Wesley Granberg-Michaelson — February 18, 2013
(RNS) A non-European pope, drawn from the Global South that's shaping the future face of the church, would be a prophetic spiritual gift to the whole Christian community, and beyond.
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