The Islamic State has reportedly executed at least 116 residents of a Christian town in Syria before the terror group was driven out by government troops.
The BBC is being accused of partially omitting survey results that showed the British public is not in favor of decriminalizing abortion.
The U.K.'s international development minister has suggested that British Islamic State militants should not be allowed to return to the country and be killed on the battlefields of Iraq and Syria instead.
Five leaders of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) were arrested and detained on Sunday after they refused to comply with an order to cancel worship services at their church.
There were no children attending worship services at about a quarter of Church of England's congregations, according to the latest figures.
A Christian magistrate, who was fired from his position as a director of England's National Health Service (NHS) after he spoke out against gay adoption, has lost his legal battle to regain his job.
Nepali President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has approved a Criminal Code Bill that includes a provision that outlaws religious conversion and the "hurting of religious sentiment."
Marie Stopes International, one of the largest abortion providers in the U.K., has been accused of pressuring its staff to encourage women to abort their babies.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that Iranian militias, who helped defeat the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, should depart the country as the battle against the terrorist group comes to a close.
The Philippine House of Representatives has failed to renew the license of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to operate its radio network, prompting concerns that it may be an attempt to censor the Church.
Churches in Egypt have denounced the killing of at least 16 police officers who died in an ambush during a raid on a militant hideout in the southwest of Cairo on Friday.
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.