Hundreds of churches and other landmark buildings across the world were lit up in red on Wednesday in an effort to draw attention to the persecution of Christians and other religious minority groups.
A Vietnamese Christian, who has worked with the charity Open Doors USA, has shared how he had risked his life to share the Gospel throughout his home country, where there are increasing restrictions against the practice of any faith other than Buddhism.
A university in Ontario, Canada has issued an apology after it reprimanded a student for playing a video clip of a debate about the use of gender-neutral pronouns in class.
A senior U.S. State Department official has called on the Sudanese government to "immediately suspend" its confiscation and demolition of churches and recommended that government officials hold roundtable talks with Christian leaders to settle disputes.
A Hindu father has reportedly beaten his wife and four children and evicted them from his house in in the State of Haryana, Northern India after they refused to renounce their Christian faith.
Algerian authorities have shut down a church in the north-western town of Ain Turk for allegedly printing Bibles and other Christian materials.
The French secularist group behind the complaint against a cross on the statue of the Pope John Paul II in Brittany is now fighting to save a mosque in a Parisian suburb.
A media group allied with the Islamic State has released a new poster depicting a beheaded Pope Francis, just days after it disseminated an image featuring a masked man driving towards Vatican City's St. Peter's Basilica.
A Christian charity has decided to omit references to the Bible in its simplified nativity booklet this Christmas in an effort to avoid confusing children who do not attend church.
A group of nuns in Seville, Spain have been fined $199,000 (170,000 euros) after they carried out restoration work on a priceless church organ without the state's permission.
The National Graphic Museum in Washington, D.C. has launched a new 3-D exhibit called "Tomb of Christ: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre Experience" to allow visitors to catch a glimpse of one of Christianity's holiest sites in Jerusalem.
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.