America's birthrate has fallen to just 1.57 births per woman, a level that one Christian leader warns could reshape the nation's future if the trend continues."For every 200 people in a population, they'll be replaced by only 157," Communio founder and president J.P.De Gance told Fox News Digital.
"We're at the cusp of a major civilizational bottleneck."Now, Communio is launching a nationwide "Family and Civilization" campaign, obtained first by Fox News Digital, urging churches to take a more active role in strengthening marriages and families.FAMILY BREAKDOWN IN PENNSYLVANIA PROMPTS FAITH-BASED EFFORT TO BRING MARRIAGE BACKCommunio founder and president J.P.De Gance believes stronger families can bring trust back to America.
(monkeybusinessimages via Getty Images)The initiative argues that churches, not government, have historically helped rebuild family life during periods of societal decline and can do so again by encouraging healthy relationships before they reach crisis."Our message to churches is we should be helping," De Gance said."Our young people know this, right? We shouldn't be talking to our kids more frequently about a great college, a great career over and above.
These are good things, but they shouldn't be spoken of in exclusion to seeking and being intentional about relationships."According to De Gance, the loneliest and unhappiest segment of the population are unmarried young people."And the reality is, the loneliest people in America right now are not the elderly and are not the widow, it's the unmarried in their 30s are disproportionately the most likely to say that they're lonely," De Gance said."And if parents understood that this means that their kids are more likely to die 15 years shorter — that's what the public health data says — they would be probably sharing a different message to their kids in youth, in high school, in those college years, and to be intentional with their relationships in their twenties."1 IN 6 ADULTS PLAGUED B...