(SRN NEWS)- ) The Texas Methodist Foundation has awarded nearly one million dollars in grant funding to 68 churches and nonprofit ministries across Texas and New Mexico. One of those recipients is Corpus Christi Metro Ministries. It provides over 8,000 hot meals to the homeless each month, as well as no-cost medical services, and transitional housing. […]
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(SRN NEWS)- ) The Texas Methodist Foundation has awarded nearly one million dollars in grant funding to 68 churches and nonprofit ministries across Texas and New Mexico. One of those recipients is Corpus Christi Metro Ministries. It provides over 8,000 hot meals to the homeless each month, as well as no-cost medical services, and transitional housing. TMF says all the recipients spread the gospel and help the poor, adding that “these are nurturing places where neighbors are welcomed and fed, where healing begins, and where people experience God’s love.” The Foundation has been boosting ministries since it started in 1938.
( ) Europe and North America aren’t the only regions that are seeing a decline in religious faith. A new analysis of data by Matthew Blanton at the University of Texas finds that the number of Latin Americans reporting no religious affiliation surged from seven percent in 2004 to over 18 percent in 2023. The share of people who say they are religiously unaffiliated grew in 15 of the 17 countries, and more than doubled in seven. On average, 21 percent of people in South America say they do not have a religious affiliation, compared with 13 percent in Mexico and Central America. Uruguay, Chile and Argentina are the three least religious countries in the region.
( ) Spain’s Catholic bishops have agreed to let the Spanish government have the final say in the church’s compensation of victims of priest sex abuse who have died or whose crimes are too old to be prosecuted. The agreement, which envisages a one-year window for claims, marks a rare concession by the Catholic hierarchy. It is aimed at resolving disagreements between the left-wing government and church authorities over reparations after victims criticized the church’s original in-house compensation proposal. The priest sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is being grappled with in many nations, including the U.S., and is far from over.
( ) A lot of Venezuelans who fled the Maduro regime for America are Christians and they are celebrating his removal in their churches. In Doral, Florida, Pastor Frank Lopez of the Jesus Worship Center began a recent sermon by congratulating the Venezuelan people and thanking God for President Trump. Lopez said “It’s time that the glory and freedom that Christ bought for you and me on the cross be manifested in Venezuela.” In Philadelphia, members of the Venezuelan community have celebrated with prayer at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul carrying Venezuelan flags and wearing jerseys of the national soccer team.