Chinese officials in Shanxi province have demolished a large church, sparking fears of a wider crackdown on Christians as the government prepares to implement new regulations on religion.
The Zambian government has decided to ban church services and other gatherings in high-density residential areas in the nation's capital city of Lusaka in an attempt to curb the spread of cholera.
Israeli archaeologists have discovered a well-preserved site that has been described as a "paradise" used by stone age hunter-gatherers over half a million years ago.
Several Christian leaders in Egypt have commended the latest decision made by the Ministry of Housing to allow worship services to be conducted at unlicensed churches pending their formal recognition.
A leather bound Welsh 400-year-old Bible that outlasted a French invasion, fires and even being used as a toilet paper is currently on display at the Roderic Bowen Library at the University of Wales.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rejected an Iranian man's bid for asylum in Switzerland based on religious grounds, arguing that his life was not in danger despite reports of persecution of religious minorities in the Islamic Republic.
The priest of a Moscow-led church in Ukraine has refused to bury a one-year-old boy because the baby was christened in a Kiev-led Orthodox church.
A Christian school in Melbourne, Australia has amended its uniform policy after a court ruled that it had discriminated against a Sikh boy when it refused to admit him for wearing a turban.
A church built by the Bulgarian community in Istanbul in the 19th century reopened on Sunday after a seven-year restoration project.
The former leader of the Hong Kong Christian Council has criticized China's central government for reviving "autocracy" and tightening its grip on Hong Kong's politics and economy.
Pakistan has been placed on the U.S. State Department's special watch list of "countries of particular concern" (CPC) for "severe" violations of religious freedom.
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.