A Chinese court has ordered two house church pastors to pay over 7 million yuan (about US$1 million) for collecting church offerings, which officials have branded "illegal income."
An evangelical church in Switzerland has decided to allow its members the option of contributing to the church using Bitcoin and other alternative digital currencies.
Pope Francis met with survivors of clergy sex abuse in Chile on Tuesday and begged forgiveness for the "irreparable damage" they suffered.
Hindu radicals have beaten and threatened to kill a pastor for refusing to renounce his faith in Jesus Christ and worship a Hindu monkey deity.
A group of Christians in China's southern Yunnan province received lengthy prison sentences for their supposed involvement in a cult.
Evangelical groups in Bolivia are voicing out their concerns about a new law that aims to ban proselytizing and other religious activities.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Communism is similar to Christianity, saying its ideology is based on equality and brotherhood, and even has its own "holy scripture."
The Belgian Catholic Church has warned that physicians are abusing the country's euthanasia law to kill people without reasonable consent.
A group of lawyers came under scrutiny for defending 40 Christians who were accused of being members of a cult in China's southern Yunnan province.
A new survey has found that one in five British adults turn to prayer in a time of crisis despite saying they are not religious.
The U.S. government has pledged to donate $55 million to the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) to help Christians and other religious minorities rebuild their homes following the defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq.
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.