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• World churches group, Lutheran global body and ACT Alliance say COP31 must fund climate justice as promised

  

  Christian groups, including the World Council of Churches, the ACT Alliance, and the Lutheran World Federation, are to speak with one voice at the COP31 climate conference in Antalya, Türkiye, from Nov. 9 to 20. Noting that "creation is a sacred gift, not a commodity," the church groupings and ACT are calling on governments to deliver climate justice: cut emissions and pay the finance they once promised.

• Basketball comes to the Vatican during US colleges face off

  

  Pope Leo has praised sports while addressing athletes and members of the Universities of Notre Dame and Villanova in the United States, who were in Rome to face off in a basketball game on Nov. 1, also the feast of All Saints.

• In South Sudan, the church is central to peace and development, UK lawmakers hear

  

  Christians in the world's newest country, South Sudan, are looking to the United Kingdom to support their peacebuilding efforts and front-line aid work, the British parliament has heard

• Christians say Jordan attacks will not chase them away, as suspect assailants are captured

  

  The assailants who carried out a terrorist attack on Christians in Jordan, killing eight people, remain unknown and at large, as authorities said the country's security forces are scouring the country for them.

• Residents pressured officials to stop worship services at Indonesian church.

  

  Muslim residents of a village in Indonesia's East Java Province, have pressured officials into ceasing a church's use of its building, after they claimed worship services there could cause social tension.

• Swiss churches and Christian organisations adopt 10 guidelines on the use of AI

  

  A group of churches and Christian organisations in Switzerland have adopted 10 commandments or guidelines, titled "Humanity in the Digital Age," for dealing with artificial intelligence.

• Pope Leo has lung cancer, but surgery to remove growth is successful, says Vatican

  

  Pope Leo XIV has undergone successful planned surgery at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, during which doctors removed the lower lobe of his right lung, the Holy See Press Office says.