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  SOS Children’s Villages UK shifts focus toward family strengthening and community-based care

  SOS Children’s Villages UK is changing the way it supports vulnerable children, moving away from its historic “village” model toward family strengthening, community-based care and advocacy for children who are without or at risk of losing parental care.

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  Does interacting with AI make people act more like robots? Researchers say 'yes'

  Researchers from universities in the U.K., Denmark and Sweden have proposed a new framework for understanding how repeated interactions with increasingly human-like artificial intelligence could influence people's behavior and self-perception.

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  More than half of young people in Germany favor a social media ban, survey finds

  More than half of German children and young people aged 12 to 17 support restricting access to social media for minors, even though most of them describe the platforms as good for their own lives, according to a report published Aug. 27 in Berlin by the German health insurer Techniker Krankenkasse.

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  Austrian state broadcaster makes Graz pop-music worship service available online

  A Protestant worship service built around German-language pop songs, held Aug. 23 at the Christuskirche in Graz, Austria, can now be watched online through the media library of Austrian public broadcaster ORF, the congregation said.

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  Unexpected hotel renovation forces European Leadership Forum to look for a new 2027 site

  The European Leadership Forum has suspended registration for its 2027 annual meeting and is asking supporters to help identify a new venue, after learning that the Polish hotel that has hosted the gathering since 2013 will be closed for renovation work.

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  German free evangelical churches report rise in baptisms

  The Federation of Free Evangelical Churches in Germany said it counted 504 congregations and 40,933 members as of Dec. 31, 2025, and reported a rise in baptisms that it called the clearest change in its recent statistics.

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  Church pays tribute to pastor who died at Big Church Festival

  The Rev. Robert Guanco, 41, pastor of Jesus Living Water Church in Eastbourne, died Friday (Aug. 28) when a sign fell on him and others at the Big Church Festival in West Sussex, England.

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