At least eight people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday after security forces stormed Catholic churches across the country in an attempt to break up the protests against President Joseph Kabila.
Chinese authorities have demolished the only Catholic church in the village of Zhifang, in Shaanxi province, saying the building "illegally occupied" the ground in the scenic area of the town.
A report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has found that the Islamist militant group Boko Haram had forced at least 135 children to conduct suicide bombings in northern Nigeria and Cameroon in 2017.
Pakistan's Supreme Court has exonerated a man who had served nine years in prison after a lower court had convicted him of blasphemy in 2009.
Pope Francis has expressed his "closeness" to Egypt's Coptic Christians and prayed that God may "convert the hearts" of the terrorist who carried out the attacks that left 11 people dead in Cairo on Friday.
Two teenage sisters in Laos have recounted how their own family have tied them up and locked them out of the house for four days after they converted to Christianity.
A California-based explorer has claimed that he has found new evidence that Noah's Ark rested on Mount Ararat in modern-day Turkey and the boat's remains are still up on the mountain.
The Tanzanian government has threatened to revoke the registration of churches after a bishop used a Christmas sermon to criticize President John Magufuli for muzzling political expression in the country.
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks that took place at a Coptic church and a Christian-owned shop near Cairo, Egypt on Friday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized Iran's foreign minister over the arrests of Christians in the Islamic regime in the run up to Christmas.
The Indonesian government handed out sentence reductions to more than 9,000 Christian inmates on Christmas Day, including the jailed Christian governor who was convicted of blasphemy earlier this year.
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.