During his first official visit with Italian President Sergio Mattarella on October 14, Pope Leo addressed what he described ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In February 2025, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that mothers with two or more children would be exempted from income tax ...

Giles Merritt urges political and business leaders to plan for population aging before it causes financial collapse.

* Over 8 billion people live on Earth today, with the next billion coming fast * Fertility rates are declining in 60+ countries, while Africa drives future growth * Urbanization, //aging, and climate ...

On the occasion of World Mission Day on Oct. 19, Vatican news agency Fides presented statistics that offer a general overview ...

As of 2025, Europe’s Muslim population is estimated at around 46 million, or about 6% of the continent’s total population of roughly 745 million. This is up from 4.9% in 2016, driven by migration ...

Elderly women wait to get vaccinations at a nursing house in Athens, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Vaccinations were expanded from 9 to 50 hospitals nationwide on Monday. (Louisa Gouliamaki/Pool via AP) (CN) ...

Depopulation — unremitting, long-term population decline — promises to be the 21st century’s most important demographic trend. After centuries of seemingly unstoppable increase, world population is on ...