Boko Haram has freed 104 out of 110 girls who were abducted from a school in Yobe State last month, but the insurgents have not released a Christian student who reportedly refused to renounce her faith.
Richard Dawkins has expressed plans to make his bestselling book, "The God Delusion," available for free in Islamic countries due to the surge of illegal downloads of the book in Middle Eastern countries.
A Polish archbishop has chastised a priest for praying for the quick death of Pope Francis in his homily last month in an apparent expression of his disagreement with the pontiff's views on immigration, divorce and Islam.
Pope Francis has warned that Catholics would not be allowed receive Holy Communion if they have committed a mortal sin, unless they have been to confession.
Former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton has urged voters to reject the repeal of the Eighth Amendment, which enshrines the equal right to life on the unborn child and the mother.
A family is hoping that the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un will lead to the release of a Christian professor, who detained in April last year for alleged anti-state activities.
Church leaders have decried the attack carried out by a mob led by the personal assistant of a local parliamentarian on a Catholic-run church in Ujjain city.
A Vatican office has admitted that it had altered a photo of a letter written by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI regarding Pope Francis' theological background.
Sweden's Social Democratic Party has proposed a ban on all religious charter schools in a bid to tackle segregation in the country amid a growing number of asylum seekers.
Protesters gathered outside a Northern Ireland university on Tuesday over its refusal to screen a film that highlights the story of people who have left homosexuality.
A Christian asylum seeker in Sweden remains in a legal limbo as the government refuses to reconsider an order to deport her back to her native Iran, where she is said to face the risk of imprisonment, rape and even death because of her faith.
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.