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Clara Akinyosoye, Editor religion.ORF.at #47 Religion and ethics - for all? Should religion stay out of politics or should religion even be political? How do religion and feminism get along? Is life without faith worse, just as good or perhaps better than with it? Why do we so often find fundamentalism in religions? Who decides what is "decent" or what is "haram", and what does a good life, good actions, good economics, let's call it "being good" actually look like in the 21st century?

Perhaps it is questions like these that young people in Austria are asking themselves. In any case, our goal as ORF Religion must be to find out what their pressing questions are and to discuss them with them. ORF already offers religion coverage on a broad scale - online, TV and on the radio. The question that must occupy us is: How do we manage to reach people interested in religion and ethics, but also in secularism, with our offerings in the future? With religion.ORF.at, ORF already has a digital and multimedia platform that provides up-to-date and in-depth reports on religion. But if we want to reach and accompany young people in particular, we have to go beyond that. Firstly, we must naturally go with our content to where young people "hang out" - that is social media, whether YouTube, Instagram or other platforms. Expecting young people to find us and access our programming is anachronistic. We will have to meet people - especially young people - where they are.

Secondly, we have to look at the composition of the population if we want to remain a relevant player. If we look at the young population, we see a pluralistic, ethnically and religiously diverse group: firmly anchored in the Christian faith as well as baptismal certificate Christians, liberal as well as traditional Muslim women, Orthodox and liberal Jews as well as doubters, the curious and also the people who simply want to deal with religions in a serious but critical way - native or coming from an immigrant family - we have to be there for all of them equally. The population has changed and media companies must do the same. We have to reflect this diversity - in our choice of topics and in our staff. Only if we have access to the people we report for will we know what the burning issues are that young people are concerned about, and only then will we have the chance to discuss these issues with them and open up spaces for information, reflection and discussion. This, after all, is where our relevance and ultimately our raison d'être lies - and as ORF as a whole.