The White House is reportedly trying to improve relations with Turkey in an effort to secure the release of American Pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been held in a Turkish prison since October 2016.
The Chinese government has reportedly banned online bookstore from selling copies of the Bible following the release of a white paper that pledges to protect the religious freedoms in the country.
A Chinese government official has insisted that "foreign forces" will not be allowed to take control of the country's religious affairs, including the bishop selection process in the country's official Catholic Church.
Four unregistered churches were recently shut down in China's north-central Gansu province for allegedly violating the country's Religious Affairs Regulations.
The Prince of Wales has offered to support Christians who are persecuted around the world and stressed that "they are not forgotten."
A Church of Ireland bishop said that he will vote to repeal the Constitutional amendment that protects the life of the unborn child in the upcoming referendum because the language is "incorrigibly flawed."
The Knights of Columbus has announced that it will be donating more than $1 million this Holy Week to help rebuild the homes of persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has acquitted 20 men who were suspected of lynching and burning a Christian couple alive in a brick kiln in 2014.
A new report has found that the U.K. is one of the several countries in Europe with the highest proportion of young people who are not religiously affiliated.
A church in northern Algeria has been shut down by the government earlier this month as part of the crackdown on non-Muslim places of worship.
Monsignor Dario Vigano, who serves as the head of Vatican Secretariat for Communication, has resigned from his post on Wednesday, a week after it was revealed that a photo of a private letter from retired Pope Benedict XVI was digitally altered and sent out to the media.
ChatGPT receives approximately 70 million religion-related requests every week, with questions about Islam accounting for the largest share, followed by Christianity, according to a recent analysis released by OpenAI, the developer of the artificial intelligence chatbot.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to review a religious freedom dispute involving an Orthodox Jewish man in Ohio who alleges that local officials violated his constitutional rights by requiring a permit for prayer gatherings at his residence. Daniel Grand filed a lawsuit against the City of University Heights after officials sought to prevent him from holding religious meetings at home.
The Episcopal Church continued to experience declining membership in 2025, with its total number of members falling by nearly half a million over the past decade, according to newly released denominational statistics. An analysis of the denomination’s 2025 Parochial Report showed that membership stood at approximately 1.425 million in 2025, compared with 1.917 million in 2015.
Christian hip-hop artist Hulvey canceled a sold-out concert in Amsterdam just an hour before he was scheduled to perform, citing sexually explicit images and objects displayed inside the venue that he said were inappropriate for his audience, particularly young children. The rapper said he made the decision after learning that venue officials would not fully cover the graphic material, despite requests from his team.
Myanmar’s military has been accused of violating international humanitarian law following separate attacks that destroyed two churches in the predominantly Christian regions of Chin and Kachin states earlier this month. According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), two military aircraft departing from an air base in Magway carried out airstrikes on the town of Mindat in southern Chin State at approximately 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 9.