Postcards: “Music is their language” – school gives autistic Chinese youth a voice

TINGSHU WANG and JOSH ARSLAN, of Reuters, reports on how Beijing-based Chen’s Studio is helping young adults with autism…
“It felt like my insides were crying”: China COVID curbs hit youth mental health

FARAH MASTER and XIAOYU YIN, of Reuters, report on the impact of China’s ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns on young people…
My Mission: Building a new church community in a culture that has forgotten how

US-based CHRISTIAN PIATT, in an article first published on Religion News Service, writes about a new initiative aimed at engaging with young adults and providing a deeper sense of community…
In the US, black millennials skip church as early adults more than whites – survey

RNS African-American young adults are more likely than their white counterparts to drop out of Protestant churches during their early adult years, new research shows. But equal percentages of black and white young adults say they currently attend services regularly. A new analysis of survey data released last week by LifeWay Research of Nashville, Tennessee, found that nearly […]
Some 70 per cent of young adults in UK say they have no religion, study finds
Some 70 per cent of young adults in Britain don’t identify with a religion, according to a new study of young people’s religious attitudes in more than 20 countries. Launched last week, the report – which examined levels of religious affiliation and practice among 16 to 29-year-olds in 21 European countries as well as Israel – […]