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 https://abcnews.go.com/US/americas-nun-population-steep-decline/story?id=87426990 America's nun population in steep decline According to a recent study, less than 1% of nuns in America are under 40. By Jon Schlosberg ,  Lindsey Griswold ,  Haley Yamada ,  Janice McDonald , and  Steve Osunsami Across the United States, young adults are becoming less religious. A 2018 and 2019  Pew Research Center survey  found that the number of Americans who identify as Christians has dropped 12% over the past decade. The group who described themselves as Catholic, in particular, has also shrunk, leaving a crisis in the Catholic sisterhood. Nuns are growing older and there is a concern that there will be fewer young people looking to join the sisterhood. According to  a recent study , less than 1% of nuns in America are under 40 and the average sister is 80 years old. Sister Joanne Persch just turned 88. She said that many of her friends who joined her in service...

  With declining numbers, women religious are invisible to many non-Catholics https://www.ncronline.org/node/145901 via @NCRonline

  Vatican statistics show decline in number of consecrated men, women https://www.globalsistersreport.org/node/188646 via @sistersreport

  As number of U.S. women religious decline, they look to future https://catholicphilly.com/2018/10/news/national-news/as-number-of-u-s-women-religious-decline-they-look-to-future/

  Fall of Constantinople https://www.britannica.com/event/Fall-of-Constantinople-1453 via @britannica Why was the fall of Constantinople so significant in world history? On May 29, 1453 — 560 years ago this week — Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks. The fall of this great city signaled the end of the Byzantine Empire, the medieval incarnation of the Roman Empire, and saw the armies of Islam spread into Europe from Asia for the first time. May 29, 2013

  Daily Life in 12th Century Constantinople -Before the Fall of Constantinople, Hagia Sophia History: https://www.pallasweb.com/deesis/daily-life-in-constantinople.html#.Y6NCD4FJrpg.twitter One of the largest cities in the world In the middle of the twelfth century Constantinople the population of the city was 400,000 or more. The city still had the appearance of a late Roman metropolis with public forums, shopping streets and apartment blocks. Even with this population there were still large tracks within the walls that were given over to farming.  The population had not been this big since Justinian's time when plague wiped out two-thirds of the population in just three months time. The growth in population was due to expanding economic activity,  increasing wealth, and immigration from Asia Minor - as people fled the advancing Turks.  Much of the wealth of the Byzantine Empire was now generated by Constantinople itself, a huge consumer market created by the s...