(SRNN NEWS)-( ) A new campaign by Mexico City’s Historic Center Trust aims to encourage Mexicans to rediscover the religious and architectural heritage at the heart of the nation’s capital. The campaign highlights visits to more than 40 historic churches as part of 26 cultural initiatives planned for 2026. One of the churches, La Profesa in downtown Mexico City. has endured a tumultuous history. An uprising left bullet holes in its walls in 1847. The historic trust operates under the municipal government and organizers say the effort goes beyond tourism.
( ) Judaism’s various streams are moving in a more liberal direction just as many Christian denominations are. Rabbis and rabbinical students in the United States are more likely to be homosexuals or women. Orthodox branches of Judaism are generally maintaining the traditional way of doing things, but Reform, Conservative and nondenominational Jewish institutions are embracing the LGBT agenda in particular. According to the latest data, 37 percent of American Jews are Reform, 17 percent are Conservative and nine percent are Orthodox.
( ) Young Jews in Morocco are flocking to classes designed to revive Jewish culture in a nation that used to have a large Jewish community. According to the latest data, 99 percent of Jews of Moroccan heritage today live elsewhere. After major migrations in the 20th century, only around 2,500 Jews remain in a country where they once made up five percent of the population. Today some one million Moroccan Jews make up one of Israel’s largest ethnic groups. Another 50,000 live in France and 25,000 in the United States.
( ) After decades of controversies over sexuality and theology in the worldwide Anglican Communion, some leaders of a conservative coalition say it’s time to make a final break from what has long been one of the world’s largest Protestant church families. But how many church provinces go along with the rupture remains to be seen. Some of the communion’s largest and fastest-growing churches in Africa belong to GAFCON, the conservative group that is promoting a break. But several of the member churches haven’t publicly embraced the plan, months after it was announced.
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