Priests, theologians and bishops are increasingly confessing that the majority of clergy no longer keep celibacy. They condemn the institution of the church and its treatment of priests. And they refuse to obey the ecclesiastical laws imposed by the Vatican. They no longer want to keep their private lives secret. Many are calling for an end to compulsory celibacy.

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their personal stories before, confront its deep and dark racist past.

A lonely man falls in love with his ChatGPT companion, challenging the boundaries of love and what it means to be human.

A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visitors, and the city celebrated itself in a glamorous era. This period went down in history as the "Belle Époque." Elaborately restored and colorized historical photographs bring to life the exciting life in Paris between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of World War I in 1914. Bicycles, cars, airplanes, moving pictures, newly founded film studios, revolutionary composers and painters, avant-garde ballet performances, fashion houses, summer resorts on the Atlantic coast – life was intoxicating. People celebrate in the variety shows, cabarets, and revue theaters of Paris. Moulin Rouge, Folies Bergères, Bal Tabarin—in Paris, the nights are long and life is too short to sleep through. It is a dance on the volcano, given the political developments in the world.

Every year, thousands of German citizens travel to India, hoping to have a spiritual awakening  of their own. In turn, they end up taking bits and pieces of Indian culture back home with  them, creating a distorted version of Indian religion that’s practiced widely across Europe.  The number of yoga institutes, ashrams, and Sanskrit institutes in Germany indicates that  younger generations are far from giving up on this trend. Some are so enamored by this  version of Indian culture that they travel thousands of kilometres to meet their spiritual  advisors in tents, attend yoga sessions at 5 in the morning, and, in some cases, even adopt  Indian names and clothes to try and connect more with this Eastern way of living.  But exactly how prevalent is this trend?

Covering China's powerful leader, his signature foreign policy, U.S.-China trade and technology wars, how Chinese technology helps stifle dissent, and more. A collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, PBS NewsHour conducted more than 70 on-camera interviews in eight Chinese cities and across eight countries.