Pakistani Muslims abducted and forced a teenage Christian girl to marry the man she worked for as house servant and then shot dead her father who tried to rescue her.
Archbishop Justin Welby and Home Secretary Amber Rudd launched Tuesday, July 19 a new scheme that enables British communities to sponsor Syrian refugees.
Islamists in Egypt attacked the family of Coptic Christian priests with knives and batons Sunday, July 17 that left one dead and three injured.
Kazakh police exercised their power under the country's restrictive law on religious freedom and imposed fines on three Christians meeting for worship.
Prayer power and lots of Facebook shares have made it possible to reunite a less than a year old baby boy with his family after chaos erupted during the Nice attack on Thursday, July 14.
Conservative group American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) laid out five concrete steps that the United States could take to defeat the terrorism of radical Islam.
A Muslim mob attacked Coptic Christians with knives and batons, killing one man and injuring three others on Sunday, July 17 in Tahna al-Gabal in Minya, Egypt.
Chinese authorities placed its official seal on the doors of a persecuted branch of Guangfu Church in southern Guangdong June 23 after forcibly shutting it down.
Turkey widened a crackdown on suspected supporters of a failed military coup on Sunday, taking the number of people rounded up in the armed forces and judiciary to 6,000, and the government said it was in full control of the country and economy.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the truck attack in the French city of Nice on Saturday and police arrested three more people there after the carnage that claimed the lives of at least 84 people.
China would bar minors from college entrance exams and military academy unless they quit Christian house churches as the state steps up its religious clampdown on Guizhou province.
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.