Christ for All Nations (CfAN), the ministry led by evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, has reported that a total of 845,875 people accepted Jesus Christ during a crusade held in Lagos, Nigeria in November 2017.
Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a large pool and an elaborate fountain that were said to be built around the fourth and sixth centuries A.D. at the site of an ancient church near Jerusalem.
A federal judge has blocked the government's attempt to deport 50 Indonesian Christians who are currently living illegally in New Hampshire to give them time to fight their removal.
A Singapore court has rejected demands to impose longer jail sentences for the co-founder of a megachurch who was convicted of misusing church funds to advance his wife's music career.
An Iranian court has sentenced the wife of the former Assyrian Pentecostal Church leader for allegedly "acting against national security" through her efforts in organizing house churches.
An Egyptian court has handed down a one-year suspended sentence to 15 Muslims who were charged for attacking a Coptic church in a village south of Cairo in December.
An Ontario court has ruled that doctors who are opposed to assisted suicide must refer patients who request the procedure to other physicians who are willing to carry it out.
A provincial government in southwest Pakistan has announced its plan to issue weapon licenses to churches in response to the terror attack that killed nine people in December.
The Irish Catholic Church has urged voters to preserve the "equal right to life" of a mother and her unborn child in the upcoming abortion referendum.
Authorities in Guizhou province has shut down a large house church and began confiscating its property, just weeks after its pastors were fined more than $1 million for collecting offerings.
A judge in the U.K. has ruled that doctors can withdraw life support for a baby suffering from brain damage despite the parents' decision to continue further intensive treatment for the child.
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.