Social media giant Facebook has banned a photo of this year's Vatican nativity scene, citing its policy that prohibits "sexually suggestive or provocative" images.
Egypt's Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar has ordered the security level to be raised to maximum alert in preparation for Coptic Christmas which will begin later this month and continue until Jan. 7.
The Vatican has issued new rules banning the sales of relics of future saints, including hair strands, hands, teeth and other body parts that are often sold for high prices at online auctions.
A Hindu nationalist group has reportedly warned Christians schools in Aligarh, in India's Uttar Pradesh state, against celebrating Christmas where Hindu students are in the majority.
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack at a Christian church in the Pakistani city of Quetta, where at least nine people were killed and more than 50 were injured.
Hindu activists have reportedly beaten up eight priests outside a police station in India's Madhya Pradesh state while they were trying to assist Christians who were detained for allegedly trying to convert non-Christians.
An Australian inquiry into child abuse has recommended that celibacy should be optional for Catholic priests and that members of the clergy should be prosecuted for failing to report evidence of pedophilia revealed to them in a confessional.
As many as 15.6 million abortions were performed in India in 2015, with the majority of women taking pills at home without adequate counseling, according to the latest study conducted by the Guttmacher Institute.
British Prime Minister Theresa May received a Bible that was found at a shrine in the Iraqi town of Karamles after the Islamic State was ousted from the Nineveh Plains region last year.
A Muslim man holding the key to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has stated that he will not welcome Vice President Mike Pence when he visits Jerusalem's Old City this month.
A representative of the British government in the House of Lords has refused to say whether proclaiming the Christian faith could be considered a hate crime.
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.