They have already met with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and on 10 October met with Opposition leader Chris Hipkins and several senior members of the Labour Party.

Specific concerns

The ethnic leaders told Hipkins and his cohorts they are particularly concerned about immigration, health inequalities and crime policies.

"We had a good opportunity to discuss some of the priority immigration issues impacting our collective ethnic and faith communities" said Daljit Singh, representing the Sikh associations in New Zealand.

Another leader at the meeting said hate crimes against ethnic and faith communities had increased.

"The changes recommended by Royal Commission on 15 March have yet to be completed and this is important for all our communities" Wellington Indian Association President Manisha Morar said.

"There are significant lessons learned which have not yet been implemented, especially in the area of hate speech and hate crime."

Data paints an ugly picture

New Zealand Police data shows that almost three-quarters of all hate crime offences reported since 2020 were motivated by race or ethnicity.

Their records show that between 1 January 2020 and 30 June, 19,589 hate-motivated offences were reported to police, with 14,285 - or 73 percent - being motivated by the victim's race or ethnicity.

Additionally, 1563 offences were based on the victim's sexual orientation. Another 1069 were related to religion or faith.

Possible solutions

Paul Patel of the Indian Central Association and Anwar Ghani from the Federation of Islamic Associations voiced concern over rising crime.

Community-led crime prevention efforts are needed urgently, they said.

The New Zealand Chinese Association is also concerned that ethic communities are not suitably catered for.

Richard Leung and Debbie Chen told Hipkins that health disparities negatively affect ethnic communities. Community-led solutions are crucial to address these challenges, they said.

That call was underlined by Gregory Fortuin of the African Leaders Group.

"We also need to have effective and on-going engagement to uplift our communities" Fortuin said.

Robert Hunt, chair of the New Zealand Buddhist Council, says the country's education system should better reflect New Zealand's ethnic diversity.

Point taken

"It was excellent to meet with representatives from our many ethnic and faith communities to discuss their priorities and the issues that we can work through alongside each other" Chris Hipkins said on social media after the meeting.

"It's important that the voices of ethnic communities are heard and embedded into the decisions we make to take our country forward, as we prepare to be the next government."

Source

• RNZ

The Addington Neighbourhood Association will send a letter to the board before the end of the month, asking it to request police fund the officer.

The move stemmed from a community meeting where concerned residents were invited to talk about the issues they face with crime, rough sleepers and beggars.

Said association treasurer Graham Robinson: "Problems include male and female beggars following residents along the footpath, waiting beside money machines, and waiting for residents to come in and out of shops or the mall. Read more

The report, Nga Tukunga Iho - The Things We Inherit, offers an annual assessment of the country's social progress - this year especially -

• children and youth
• housing
• crime and punishment
• social hazards
• work and incomes

Lt-Colonel Ian Hutson, The Salvation Army's Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit director, notes the new government has inherited a mix of successes and obstacles from its predecessor.

He emphasises the impact current policies will have on future generations and the responsibility to foster a better living environment for all New Zealanders.

While the report acknowledges significant progress has been made in recent years - reductions in child poverty, an increase in social housing units, sustained low unemployment - it also points to worrying trends.

These trends include the deepening cost-of-living crisis hitting lower-income households hardest. Rising rental costs are outpacing inflation and there are overall increases in food insecurity and financial hardship.

The State of the Nation report is unequivocal in its call for the new Government to take decisive action.

Hutson stresses the need to build upon the progress achieved and to adopt successful strategies to navigate the challenges ahead.

Concerns for Maori wellbeing

One of the report's key findings pertains to Maori wellbeing.

Persistent inequities affecting Maori in education, housing, employment and the criminal justice system need to be addressed, it says.

To achieve this, the report advocates for the importance of resourcing kaupapa Maori approaches to enhance well-being for whanau, hapu and iwi.

Children and Youth

The report's Children and Youth section has both positive and negative news.

On the plus side, it rates child poverty reduction as a significant achievement.

However, it also notes poverty's disproportionate impact on Pasifika, Maori, and children living with disabilities. It stresses the need for targeted efforts to meet Government poverty reduction targets.

The report also states that young people continue to tell of high levels of mental distress.

Housing

The report's Housing section paints a grim picture of unaffordability and homelessness. This is exacerbated by a decline in new housing consents and a surge in inward migration, it says.

The report calls for an urgent increase in public housing supply to address the growing backlog.

Crime and Punishment

In terms of Crime and Punishment, the report indicates an overall increase in reported and unreported crime and notes that violent offences are increasing.

Enhancing access to housing, employment, education and social services would be more effective in reducing crime than implementing harsher punishments, the report suggests.

Social Hazards

The Social Hazards section notes a positive decline in alcohol and drug consumption.

At the same time, it points to rising gambling losses and signs of increased financial hardship. One such indicator is the increasing number of calls for early KiwiSaver withdrawals on the grounds of financial hardship.

Work and Incomes

Under the heading Work and Incomes, the Salvation Army State of the Nation report highlights the continued high levels of employment but raises concerns about the rising unemployment and the persistent wage inequality affecting women and ethnic minorities.

It says high inflation is putting pressure particularly on low-income households. Furthermore, food insecurity for households with children has increased.

Source

• Supplied: The Salvation Army
• The full report is available from the Salvation Army.

It's almost impossible to know, exactly, how many people sleep in cars. "None", would be the best answer. But this isn't a "best answer" world.

One measure is how many people on the Housing Register (essentially a waiting list of people assessed as eligible for public housing, but not yet in it) give their address as a car.

How many applicants for public housing, Chris Bishop asked, indicated they were living in a car in June 2023, compared with October 2017?

Priyanca Radhakrishnan answered that in June 2023. "There were 480 applicants who put ‘car' down as their accomodation type, compared to 102 in October 2017."

"I refuse to stand by while children are sleeping in cars", Jacinda Ardern said, in the 1 News Leaders' Debate, pre-election in 2017.

It was one of those memorable lines that contained a zeitgeist fury. Back then, sleeping in cars was evidence of the kind of failure that defines a Government.

Now? It gets less attention.

Some of this is down to a paradox. The Housing Register has grown because it has some meaning.

In her answer to Chris Bishop's question, Associate Minister Radhakrishnan reminded us: "This Government has added 12,198 net additional public homes, as compared to that member's Government who left us with 1,500 public homes fewer compared to when they took office."

People who listed 'car' as their accommodation in New Zealand went from 102 in October 2017 to 480 in June 2023. (Source: 1News)

Yes. You only join a queue when you believe it's leading somewhere. Albeit slowly. Besides, the previous National Government appeared to get its State housing policy from Humpty Dumpty.

This is a recurring theme in Labour's response when National attacks its provision and management of public housing.

Housing Minister, Megan Woods, responding to Nicola Willis in 2021, brandished the derisory "they" for National's performance when in Government. A finger-wagging "they".

"They finished Government with 1,500 fewer houses than they started with. If they'd built at even our minimum level of 1,600 houses a year, we would have had 15,000 more public houses in New Zealand."

Fair point.

But Chris Bishop's point is also fair. And important. And if Labour and its supporters were appalled by people sleeping in cars in 2017, surely they'll be appalled by it now?

Won't they? Judging by Twitter traffic - maybe not.

An interesting thing happened on Friday morning.

Bernard Hickey tweeted out the same link to the Parliamentary exchange between Chris Bishop and Priyanca Radhakrishnan that I've attached (above), with an accompanying twelve-word commentary: "This says it all. As the rain comes down. And it's cold."

Had it been 2017, and had National been in power, this would likely have had so many retweets it would have got dizzy. But in the twelve hours that followed it going up, it was retweeted only once. Once. By the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).

CPAG didn't hold back.

"Touché @bernardchickey", their tweet commenced, ending: "The state of the nation can be summed up in this headline. The children living in cars are not included in @Stats_NZ child poverty data. Abhorrent, outrageous, unacceptable."

Take that!

But no-one did. CPAG, whose commitment to addressing child poverty is rigorous, intelligent and admirably non-partisan, weren't retweeted at all in the following twelve hours.

That despite the excellently Twitter baiting fodder of those three furious words: "Abhorrent, outrageous, unacceptable."

Not even National supporters went near it.

Hundreds of people are living in cars in New Zealand - but does that matter to Kiwis this election?

Indeed, if you go to National's website, there's no mention whatsoever of the information Chris Bishop elicited from Priyanca Radhakrishnan in Parliament on Thursday afternoon.

Instead, as I write this, National's issue of the moment (and obviously their website is constantly updated) is crime.

Yes, a third of National's front twelve "press releases" at the close of the week were on crime, with ram raids mentioned nine times.

Imagine, the power if National had linked the impacts of a childhood in which economic deprivation was so great that their "home" was a car, with the tragically increased likelihood of criminality.

The link is established. Starkly.

"Children born into poverty more likely to become criminals", RNZ headlined a story in 2018, reporting on research by the Ministry of Social Development.

The then Children's Commissioner, and former principal judge of the country's Youth Court, Andrew Becroft, is quoted. "He said children suffering from material hardship were more likely to end up with a poor education and in crime when they grew up."

Yes.

"We know that long-term education is going to be a challenge", Andrew Becroft is reported as saying.

"We know that they are, the kids, especially the boys, are at risk of criminal offending. So this isn't just a theoretical issue, this [has] significant life ramifications."

And here we are. Five years later. Living with them. Continue reading

• John Campbell is TVNZ's Chief Correspondent.

In two years there has been a 465 percent increase in ram raids, and of those caught by police 70 percent were aged under 18.

Data released to RNZ under the Official Information Act showed that in the 2022 calendar year, police recorded 516 ram raids.

There were 708 offenders identified; 495 were under 17 years old, 70 were under 13, and 88 were adults. Read more

"I think we have a really good rapport and we are seen as a positive influence in the community, so it was completely out of the blue," Jason Malcolm said.

"We've got a shipping container that was filled with all sorts of stuff we had put aside to use on a weekly basis or on a special occasion."

A gazebo, a baptism pool, new heaters and sleeping bags, Sunday School supplies, scooters, and a children's playground were among the items stolen from the Clifflife Church on Rangiora St on Monday night. Read more

Assistant Commissioner of Police Rusiate Tudravu made his appeal to delegates at the church's annual conference in Suva on Friday.

He asked for their support in regard to crimes against women and children and in the fight against drugs.

He said fighting crime could be helped by the churches using their networks to spread information the police have.

Tudravu said women and children were the vulnerable groups when it came to physical and sexual abuse.

"It is affecting the members of the community and they are part of the church, so the gospel should be related to the reality on the ground.

"You bring the Bible, you teach about the Bible, you teach the gospel and you relate it to the environment that we live in and that should be done."

Tudrava also sought the assistance of the churches in the fight against drug abuse, particularly marijuana.

He said that new developments had emerged in the campaign against marijuana.

"A trend that is coming up that is really surprising when you mention the Lau Group is marijuana cultivation there, but now it is coming up."

He said it was a concern and that is why the police have asked church elders to take the awareness programme to the members of the community.

Commissioner of Police Brigadier-General Sitiveni Qiliho also addressed the deleagtes.

He told them about the toll that methamphetamine addiction is having on Fijian children.

"If we don't try to combat this then it will cause chaos, especially in a small country like ours," he said.

Qiliho said the church also had its role to play in trying to combat drugs in Fiji.

Source:

• fijisun.com
• fijisun.com.fj
• Source: fijisun.com.fj

Burglars took items, including a metal cross, two candles and two vases.

"Some people have lost the sense of the sacred and what is appropriate ... They've lost the sense of 'me' being part of something larger than themselves," Father Aidan Mulholland says.

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This was one of the solutions offered by participants in Fiji's first ever discussion on crime and violence

Members of faith-based organisations and NGOs gathered in Pacific Harbour in Serua On Wednesday to participate in a three-day dialogue about the root causes of crime and violence

They appear to be on the increase in the rapidly populating Great Suva Area.

Organisers of the talks, Dialogue Fiji, said sexual assault cases were up from 718 cases reported in 2005 to 2714 last year.

There were also noted increase in cases such as theft with 6447 reported last year compared with 3380 in 2005.

Burglary was up from 850 in 2005 to more than 2300 in 2015.

Dialogue Fiji's executive director, Nilesh Lal, said convening independent spaces for dialogue on social issues and facilitating engagement between state, non-state and citizen groups was useful to devising sustainable and effective solutions to issues such as crime.

"Security is an important element of the social contract that citizens have with the state, and with the growing populations and increasing crime incidences, innovative approaches to tackling crime in a rapidly changing landscape is necessary," he said.

"As experiences from other contexts have shown, community engagement can be an effective tool to achieve this."

Dialogue Fiji has been working in the area of inclusive and participatory decision making, democratic transition, good governance, conflict analysis and peace-building since 2009.

Source

• fijitimes.com
• fijitimes.com
• facebook.com
• Image: facebook.com

An Italian judge ruled Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia was completely uninvolved in a scheme to buy a 14th-century castle and then re-sell it at a profit.

The judge made the decision after a public prosecutor's office filed a motion to dismiss the archbishop from the investigation.

Archbishop Paglia described the judge's decision as "deeply satisfying".

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The funeral of Vittorio Casamonica, 65, on August 20 featured a gilded horse-drawn carriage, flower petals tossed from a helicopter and theme music from "The Godfather".

The coffin was draped with an image of St Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio).

The Casamonica clan has been accused of racketeering, extortion, drug trafficking, prostitution and usury in the south-east of the city.

Rome city hall said last Thursday that Vittorio Casamonica himself was the subject of "many investigations into Roman criminality".

A banner on Don Bosco church in Rome's outskirts read: ""You conquered Rome, now you'll conquer paradise."

Another banner proclaimed: "King of Rome" and featured the dead criminal decked out in white with a crucifix to look like the Pope

Fr Giancarlo Manieri said he had no control over what happened outside the church.

Observers said the ceremony inside the church was sober and people followed it with care.

Rome auxiliary Bishop Giuseppe Mariante said Church officials did not know the ceremony would be accompanied by "Mafia propaganda".

"Of course, if we had had the suspicion of a show of this type, we would have taken precautions," Bishop Mariante was quoted as saying in L'Osservatore Romano.

"We absolutely would not have accepted conducting that funeral," the bishop said.

Political reaction to the funeral was swift.

Anti-Mafia campaigner Roberto Saviano hit out at the Church's apparent acquiescence in the face of such a tawdry event.

"The Church that denied a funeral to Piergiorgio Welby [an Italian man who ended his own life after suffering incurable muscular dystrophy] yesterday granted one in full regalia to the boss, Vittorio Casamonica," he tweeted.

Politicians called on the interior ministry to explain whether it had given special permits for the ceremony.

In June last year, during a visit to southern Italy, Pope Francis threatened mobsters with excommunication.

In February, the Pope said the Church would welcome such criminals back if they repented.

Sources

• Associated Press
• Reuters
• CNN
• The Independent
• The Guardian
• Religion News Service
• Image: Sydney Morning Herald

The resignations of Archbishop John Nienstedt, 68, and Bishop Lee Piché, 57, of St Paul-Minneapolis were announced by the Vatican on Monday.

The move came 10 days after prosecutors brought criminal charges against the archdiocese "for its failure to protect children".

These involve the way the archdiocese mishandled complaints against now-former priest Curtis Wehmeyer, who was ultimately convicted for his crimes.

In January, the archdiocese filed for bankruptcy, citing specifically "the scourge of sexual abuse of minors".

In 2013, then-archdiocesan chancellor of canonical affairs Jennifer Haselberger resigned and went public, saying she had discovered unreported allegations of clergy sexual abuse and lapses in investigations.

A commission set up by Archbishop Nienstedt revealed "serious shortcomings", including "a flawed organisational structure with little oversight and accountability" that employed outdated reporting policies and restricted crucial information from relevant decision-makers and boards.

Archbishop Nienstedt himself stood down from ministry in December, 2013, after an allegation of inappropriate touching of a minor.

An investigation led by a prosecutor could find no evidence, so the archbishop returned to ministry in March, 2014.

Archbishop Nienstedt came under investigation in July, 2014 for allegations that he had inappropriate sexual conduct with adult priests, seminarians and other men.

He denied the allegations.

Bishop Piché oversaw an investigation, but the status of this is unclear.

After resigning from the post he held since 2008, Archbishop Nienstedt said he did so "in order to give the archdiocese a new beginning amidst the many challenges we face".

"My leadership has unfortunately drawn attention away from the good works of [Jesus'] Church and those who perform them."

But he said his conscience is clear with regard to the protection of minors and vulnerable adults from sexual abuse.

Bishop Piché said the people of the archdiocese "need healing and hope. I was getting in the way of that, and so I had to resign".

Sources

• National Catholic Reporter
• Catholic News Agency
• Image: Minnpost

But a statement from St Louis archdiocese has hit out at coverage of Archbishop Robert Carlson's remarks, saying they were taken out of context.

During a court deposition last month, Archbishop Carlson was questioned about the period when he was an auxiliary bishop in Minnesota several decades ago.

Attorney Jeffrey Anderson asked the archbishop if he knew an adult engaging in sex with a child was a crime.

"I'm not sure whether I knew it was a crime or not," Archbishop Carlson replied.

"I understand today it's a crime," he said.

The archdiocese's statement said Archbishop Carlson was responding to a question about mandatory reporting of child abuse in Minnesota, which became effective in 1988.

The deposition transcript shows Mr Anderson asking a double question about mandatory reporting and the archbishop's knowledge of whether child abuse was a crime.

This drew an objection from the archbishop's attorney.

Mr Anderson then rephrased: "Archbishop, you knew it was a crime for an adult to engage in sex with a kid?"

The deposition was part of a lawsuit against Twin Cities archdiocese and Winona diocese.

When asked when he first realised it was a crime for an adult — including a priest — to have sex with a child, Archbishop Carlson said "I don't remember" .

Mr Anderson, who is representing an alleged clergy abuse victim, released documents showing that, in 1984, then-Bishop Carlson was aware of the seriousness of child abuse allegations.

The then-auxiliary bishop wrote to his archbishop that parents of an alleged victim were planning to go to police.

Archbishop Carlson admitted that during his time in St Paul and Minneapolis he never personally went to police, even when clergy admitted inappropriate behaviour.

But he encouraged parents to do so at least once, he said.

In his testimony, Archbishop Carlson responded 193 times that he did not recall abuse-related conversations from the 1980s to mid-1990s.

A deposition from 1987 has another bishop, now deceased, saying he was advised by Carlson to answer "I don't remember" if questioned in court.

Archbishop Carlson said he had no knowledge of that discussion, but added he wouldn't have given that advice.

Sources

National Catholic Reporter (Original story)

National Catholic Reporter (Rebuttal)

NBC News

Deposition transcript

Image: St Louis Today

I'd come to Santa Barbara six months ago from Wellington on a student exchange.

I was really excited to become immersed in the Californian lifestyle.

I wanted to go surfing, to drink Californian wine, and have fun at the "Number Two Party School" in the United States.

That night my flatmate and I were going to stay at home to drink wine and watch a movie. My other flatmate was going to go to a party. Everyone else had gone home for the weekend.

On our way to the liquor store my roommate and I reached the street where the shooting had started minutes before.

"Did you hear that?" Asked a man in his early 20s, visibly shaken.

We hadn't, but we saw the police lights. Curiosity took a hold and we walked towards them.

We stopped an older man standing in the road in a work uniform to ask what had happened.

"There's been a shooting," he said.

More gun shots followed his reply.

Yet, it was as if my conscious didn't want to accept that reality.

Not grasping the severity of the situation, we continued to walk down the street towards the liquor store. Walking the exact path he'd driven.

The idea of gun violence had been a foreign concept to me. It's something I'd only seen in the movies or on the television news. Continue reading.

Hannah Merritt is a Massey University communications student on an exchange at the University of California Santa Barbara. She lives near the scene of the mass shooting that claimed seven lives on Friday.

Source: The Wireless

Image: Facebook

After 32 minutes, it arrives at its final destination, Termini, the city's central station.

An ad in a pedestrian tunnel at the station reads, "Roma Termini — a Place to Live."

Some have taken the message quite literally.

It's 11:10 p.m. Stranded people from around the world are wrapped up in their sleeping bags as they lay in front of the exit on the north side of the station.

On some nights, up to a hundred homeless huddle together like freezing people in front of a fire. Many of those who sleep here are African refugees.

During the daytime, Roma from Romania represent the majority in and around the station. Left largely unchecked by the local authorities, they aggresively try to squeeze money out of foreign tourists.

A comment by one British tourist recently got posted on the Facebook page of Ignazio Marino, who became the city's mayor in June.

The tourist said she had never before experienced "a more wretched hive of scum and villainy" than when she arrived in Rome by train. For safety reasons, she wrote, it is advisable to "spend as little time as possible" at Termini.

Marino takes criticism seriously, but also in a sporting manner. Continue reading.

Source: Spiegel

Image: hotel.rome.it

Nicola Gratteri says the Mafia is upset by the Pope's efforts to make the Church more financially transparent.

For years the Mafia has laundered money and made investments, taking advantage of the connivance of the Church, he said.

Gratteri's comments were made against a backdrop of Pope Francis, Monday, again putting clerics and crime bosses on notice.

In a fiery sermon against corruption, the pope said christians who lead a "double life" by giving money to the Church while getting it from nefarious means should be punished.

Reinforcing his comment the pontiff used Luke 17:2, "Jesus says: It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea."

Earlier in the year, May, during an address in St Peter's Square in Rome, the pope strongly criticised Italy's four mafia organisations for "exploiting and enslaving people", and called on gangsters to repent.

"I think of all the pain of men, women and even children who are exploited by many mafias," Pope Francis told thousands of people during his weekly address.

"They are forced to do work that makes them slaves, like prostitution. Behind all this slavery there are mafias."

Crime-stopper Nicola Gratteri, who for 25 years has lived the south Italy region of Calabria, where the Mafia is most active, lives his life under police protection.

"Those who have up until now profited from the power and wealth deriving from the Church are now nervous, agitated. The Pope is dismantling centres of economic power in the Vatican", he said.

"I don't know if organised crime is in a position to do something, but certainly they are thinking about it. It could be dangerous. If the godfathers can trip him up, they would not hesitate to do so," he told Il Fatto Quotidiano, an Italian daily.

Sources

• The Telegraph
• The Telegraph
• Huffington Post
• The Guardian
• Image: Straight Flesh

The revised code includes provisions covering the theft and publication of confidential documents and money-laundering, and provides for the freezing of financial assets.

It also strengthens provisions against child abuse, specifying that Vatican prosecutors can proceed with an abuse case even without a formal complaint from the victim.

The code provides for co-operation with other nations in the pursuit of white-collar criminals.

Explaining the need to revise the code, Pope Francis noted that "the common good is increasingly threatened by transnational organised crime, the improper use of the markets and of the economy, as well as by terrorism".

While the strengthened code applies only within the Vatican City state, it appears to be meant to demonstrate that the Pope is taking seriously the various scandals that have hit the Vatican recently and aims to align Church policy with international legal standards.

The new code incorporates the provisions of numerous international conventions to which the Holy See is a signatory. These cover the conduct of war and war crimes, the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and the rights of children.

The new Vatican laws make it much easier for the Vatican to co-operate with other governments and even extradite a person who committed the crime elsewhere, but tries to hide in the Vatican.

The possibility of extradition also explains why the new laws include crimes against the security of airports, maritime navigation or oil-drilling platforms, even though the Vatican has no airport, ships or fixed platforms in the sea.

The changes to Vatican City civil law are separate from the universally applicable canon law, norms and sanctions, which require bishops around the world to turn over to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith cases of priests accused of child sexual abuse or possession of child pornography.

Sources:

Vatican Radio

Catholic News Agency

Catholic News Service

Image: Daily Mail

So concludes a study by by Azim Shiraf at the University of Oregon and Mijke Rhemtulla at the University of Kansas who compared rates of crime with rates of believe in heaven and hell in 67 countries.

The study acknowledged that religion has generally shown to have positive effects on society behaviour but suggests that these effects may be driven by supernatural punishment rather than belief in the forgiveness of sins and a compassionate God.

The study also showed belief in heaven increased the likelihood of higher crime rates.

In reporting the study's results, the economist opined that since researchers also noted that the proportion of people believing in heaven almost always outweighed the proportion of those believing in hell, that "a little more preaching on the fiery furnace might be beneficial in this life, if not also in the next."

Sources

• PLOS One Journal
• The Economist
• Image: The Economist

"It seems like there is a case to be made for the causal direction that religious punishment does actually lower unethical behaviour, whereas forgiveness does seem to license people," Azim F. Shariff, professor of psychology and director of the Culture and Morality Lab at the University of Oregon, told KEZI 9 News.

The study, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, took a sample survey from 143,197 people in 67 countries over a span of 26 years.

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