Indian officials have ordered 10 churches in Tamil Nadu state to cancel worship services, following complaints from members of Hindu nationalist groups.
A Cuban pastor has warned that the communist government is blocking the efforts of religious charities to provide humanitarian aid to the victims of Hurricane Irma.
A pastor has been arrested for allegedly trafficking dozens of young girls through an orphanage run by a Christian organization he founded in 1989.
Belgian police arrested a group of youths who were praying the rosary to protest a service celebrating the Protestant Reformation at a Catholic cathedral in Brussels.
A top administrative court in France has ruled that a cross from a memorial of the late Pope John Paul II in Brittany must be removed because it violates a 1905 law imposing the strict separation of Church and State.
Researchers from Cambridge University have suggested that the miracle described in the Book of Joshua when "the sun stood still, and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance on its enemies" may have been the earliest recorded solar eclipse.
The supporters of the Islamic State terror group have threatened to attack Prince George, the 4-year-old son of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, in a disturbing post shared on the encrypted instant messaging application Telegram.
Pro-life groups in Scotland are looking into legal ways to challenge the government's controversial decision to allow pregnant women to take abortion drugs at home.
The United Methodist Church's highest court has turned down two petitions urging the denomination to declare that its official stance against homosexuality is unconstitutional.
Coptic Christians are calling on Egyptian authorities to put an end to discrimination after the government closed down four churches in the southern province of Minya in the past few weeks.
A Pakistani Christian, who works as a food delivery driver in the U.K., was attacked by a group of men he says were Muslims for displaying two poppies and a cross on his car.
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.