(SRN NEWS)- ( ) The World Track and Field championships are taking place in Tokyo this week and new rules are in place to keep males from competing against females. World Athletics, the governing body of the sport, has implemented the SRY gene test which is designed to detect the “Y” chromosome found in males. […]
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( ) The World Track and Field championships are taking place in Tokyo this week and new rules are in place to keep males from competing against females. World Athletics, the governing body of the sport, has implemented the SRY gene test which is designed to detect the “Y” chromosome found in males. Officials say it’s a common-sense approach to tackle an issue that has loomed large in recent years as transgenderism has become a critical issue in numerous countries. World Athletics President Seb Coe says the policy is tailored to foster the “protection and the promotion of the integrity of women’s sport.”
( ) Whie faith declines across much of Western Europe, an unusual tradition is going strong on one tiny Greek island. There are more than 1,000 whitewashed stone chapels on Tinos (TEE-nohs) that are owned and cared for by private families as they have in some cases for centuries. These room-sized structures, mostly Orthodox and a couple of hundred Catholic, are up the rocky hillsides on the island. Their owners range from octogenarians to Generation Z, sheep farmers to business owners. But they share the unwavering dedication to keeping their little chapels open to anyone who wants to pray or just find a moment of quiet.
( ) For decades, one of the most consistent findings in religion research has been that women tend to be more religious than men. This holds true across dozens of countries and on nearly every continent. But that might be changing in the U.S. A recent poll released by the American Enterprise Institute’s Survey Center on American Life found that 39 percent of Generation Z women say they do not have a religious affiliation, compared to 34 percet of men from the same cohort. And the past several waves of data from the Cooperative Election Study have found that men born after 1990 — a mix of younger Millennials and Gen Z — are more likely to attend services than women.
( ) Federal prosecutors have charged the leaders of a church with congregations in several states with swindling millions of dollars in educational benefits from military service members. The indictment says leaders of the House of Prayer Christian Churches of America recruited service members to join congregations near military bases in Georgia, North Carolina, Texas and Washington state. Prosecutors accuse church members of pressuring the troops to use their G.I. Bill education benefits to pay for enrollment in church-run Bible seminaries that took in more than 23 million dollars. The church is also accused of receiving three million in such funding illegally in Georgia.