A priest was abducted in Yemen early this month and it was reported by numerous media outlets that he was crucified by the Islamic State terror group on Good Friday. However, there has been no indication that this is the case.
The suicide bombing in an amusement park in Lahore, Pakistan on Easter Sunday has taken the lives of 70 people, at least 29 of which were children. The Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility and said that Christians were their target. Leaders of the Christian ...
Pakistan has decided to launch a paramilitary crackdown on Islamist militants in Punjab, the country's richest and most populous province, after an Easter Day bombing killed 70 people in the provincial capital Lahore, officials said on Monday.
Pope Francis on Monday condemned the Easter suicide bomb by Islamist militants that killed at least 70 people in Pakistan, many of them Christians, as "hideous" and demanded that the country's authorities protect religious minorities.
The entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been in the care of two Muslim families for hundreds of years.
In a message during Easter, Prime Minister David Cameron focused on hope and urged the people of the United Kingdom to defend their Christian values against terrorists.
Pope Francis celebrated Easter Mass at the St. Peter's Basilica, and all over the world, Christians are doing the same.
A nun who survived the attack of the Islamic State on a retirement home in Yemen early this month recounted what happened during the massacre, where four nuns and 12 others were killed and a priest has gone missing.
John Brown University received $1 million dollars from an anonymous donor in support of their archaeological project in Jordan.
Pope Francis on Thursday washed and kissed the feet of refugees, including three Muslim men, and condemned arms makers as partly responsible for Islamist militant attacks that killed at least 31 people in Brussels.
"Empowering women and girls will greatly help the world community not to leave anyone behind, and their empowerment will empower us all," Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, said.
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.