As AI-accelerated warfare is rapidly viewed as a means of rubber-stamping killing at unprecedented speed and scale, the World Council of Churches has signed a statement that calls on tech companies and states to halt the use of AI systems in military kill chains.
Threats against migrants unfortunately proliferate worldwide. Such threats are reported in the mass media from North America and Europe. But the problem is spread much further afield.
As part of a series of global prayers for peace, the World Council of Churches has invited people and churches worldwide to join the Global Prayer for Peace in Ukraine on June 11.
Geneva - Credible reports of killings, abductions, sexual violence, forced conversion, forced marriage, abductions and acts tantamount to enforced disappearances targeting Christian and other religious minority communities in Nigeria, particularly women and girls, are alarming, UN experts say.
The U.S. Defense Department will no longer allow military service members to claim around 180 different religious traditions in their personnel records, leaving only 31 to choose from, and 22 of them are Christian denominations.
The Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church has installed its first woman bishop, Catherine Ngina Musau, at a ceremony attended by thousands of people
Nigeria is facing a terrifying crisis of religious violence and according to recent estimates, targeted violence has claimed the lives of nearly 53,000 Nigerian civilians since 2009, says the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
The first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV asserts that artificial intelligence is not inherently immoral, but that its adoption should be slowed to enable the development of moral guardrails and it gleaned strong approval from ecumenical groups.
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Pentecost with a call to the Holy Spirit to save humanity from "the evil of war" and urged the faithful to see themselves as active bearers of the Gospel rather than as passive guardians of it.
