A German-Iranian teenager who killed nine people and then himself in Munich had undergone psychiatric treatment and was in all probability a lone gunman who had no Islamist militant ties, police said on Saturday.
A package of anti-terror laws has taken effect in Russia last week. Authored to protect Russia's information sovereignty, the law, however, restricts the freedom of evangelization for all religions, excluding Russian Orthodox, unless in places of worship.
Church leaders argue whether the surviving Chaldean Christians should remain or abandon their ancestral grounds in the face of serious extinction by the Islamic State terrorist group.
The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) urged to scale up humanitarian support as 134 Nigerian children die daily from acute malnutrition after Boko Haram unleashed its violence.
Gunmen attacked a busy mall in the German city of Munich on Friday evening, killing at least eight people and sending shoppers running for their lives from what police said was a terrorist attack.
Teens are better off having abortions than giving birth to their babies, a new study says, but other studies disagree.
Vietnam puts behind bars Christian leaders and sometimes punishes an errant prisoner by food poisoning, said an Evangelical leader.
An organization that supports women's bishops asked the Church of England to once and for all prevent a protester from expressing "discrimination" against the ordination of female bishops.
The Anglican community extended assistance for thousands of those affected in the devastated Juba region of South Sudan that recently escalated in its state of unrest.
A group of Catholics charged the official Catholic Church in India for harboring caste discrimination as it remained silent over the kidnapping of its low-caste bishop.
Saudi Arabia perceived "Pokémon" game cards as un-Islamic and revived its Fatwa against it; but not yet on its latest transformation, "Pokémon GO."
The United Methodist Church (UMC) will convene its 2028 General Conference at two locations simultaneously for the first time in the denomination’s history, bringing together delegates in the United States and Africa for its highest legislative assembly. The UMC Commission on the General Conference announced Tuesday that Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Harare, Zimbabwe, will jointly host the gathering.
Christian persecution has worsened in more than half of 18 countries surveyed by a Catholic watchdog, raising concerns about the future of Christian communities in the Middle East. The Middle East has emerged as an area of particular concern, where prolonged instability threatens Christianity’s presence in its historic birthplace.
Multisite churches are expanding rapidly across the United States, attracting nearly one in 10 Protestant churchgoers, but their growth is increasingly outpacing the development of qualified leaders, according to a new national study. The report identified more than 1,800 multisite churches operating over 6,000 campuses nationwide, highlighting the growing influence of congregations that maintain multiple worship locations under a unified organizational structure.
New York Times bestselling author and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey has drawn mixed reactions from Christians after questioning whether believers should embrace Halloween festivities and consume horror-themed entertainment. During the Oct. 19 episode of her “Relatable” podcast, Stuckey addressed the different ways Christians approach Halloween, acknowledging that the subject involves personal convictions and differing interpretations of Christian freedom.
A federal appeals court has handed a legal victory to churches, synagogues and other religious organizations challenging the Trump administration’s decision to permit immigration enforcement operations at places of worship. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed a lower court’s decision rejecting the religious groups’ request for a preliminary injunction.