Renowned Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias has released a statement in response to allegations of inappropriate online sexual relationship with a woman, while his ministry addressed the assertions that he had misrepresented his academic credentials.
A Presbyterian minister in Washington D.C. has launched a campaign called "Christmas Spirit Rides" in protest of a policy that prohibits the display of religious advertisements on the city's buses.
Scholars from the University of Texas at Austin have reportedly found an "original copy" of an ancient text that contains Jesus' purported secret teachings, but is deemed heretical by the Church.
The latest figures from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention have revealed that a third of pregnant women in New York City obtained an abortion in 2014.
Lawyers representing a church in Nevada have asked a school district to reverse its policy that prohibits the distribution of flyers that are deemed religious.
A chief justice with the Kentucky Supreme Court has ordered a review on the case between the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission (HRC) and a Christian screen printer who refused to print T-shirts for a gay pride festival.
American Atheists, one of the largest secular groups in the nation, has launched a billboard campaign encouraging people to skip church this holiday season to avoid "fake news."
A tie vote at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week has allowed Planned Parenthood facilities in Louisiana to keep receiving Medicaid funding.
A congressional committee has advanced a legislation that would allow churches, mosques, synagogues and other faith-based centers to receive federal disaster relief funds.
Tony Perkins, the head of the conservative group Family Research Council (FRC), has denounced the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby after he remarked that he does not understand Christians who support President Donald Trump.
The Archdiocese of Washington is taking legal action against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) for rejecting a Christmas advertisement that seeks to encourage spirituality this holiday season.
Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice-elect Maggie Ellis has announced plans to overturn a rule protecting judges who decline to officiate same-sex weddings because of their religious beliefs.
A law that came into effect this year gives the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) increased powers to restrict religious practice even as several Christians remain imprisoned for carrying out their ministries, according to an advocacy group’s new report. In the past year freedom of religion in China has deteriorated with the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress coming into effect on July1.
Several pastors affiliated with the Calvary Chapel movement have publicly criticized Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa’s affirmation of women serving as pastors, following an announcement by Char Brodersen at the church that once served as the movement’s flagship congregation. The Calvary Chapel Association (CCA), through its Heartland Regional Team, reaffirmed its opposition to appointing women as pastors or elders.
A 20-year-old Egyptian Christian was reportedly killed by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Libya after resisting repeated demands to abandon his Christian faith and embrace Islam while in captivity. Milad Malak, a Coptic Christian, was the only Christian among a group of Egyptian workers abducted by ISIS fighters, according to Open Doors, which cited accounts from two Muslim companions who were later released.
Three students were killed and six others injured when Myanmar's military launched an airstrike and drone assault on a Christian Bible school in Karen State. The attack occurred Tuesday in Day Bu Noh village in Hpapun District, an area largely populated by Christian Karen communities. Military aircraft reportedly dropped bombs before armed drones struck the village, with one exploding directly above the Bible school.