A Hindu woman has filed a police complaint against her own family and a charitable trust in Kerala, alleging that she was sexually abused and tortured while she was held captive at a yoga center because she married a Christian man.
Two religious prisoners were sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a convicted double killer, believing that the act would "exorcise a demon" from the victim and "cleanse" him of his crimes.
A group of clergy and lay scholars have issued a formal "filial correction" of Pope Francis, accusing him of supporting heretical positions on several issues, including marriage, the moral life, and the reception of the sacraments.
A group of North Korean defectors has launched hundreds of balloons containing 1,000 flash drives loaded with portions of the Bible across the inter-Korean border.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) voted in favor of relaxing Britain's abortion laws, despite a recent protest letter signed by more than 650 doctors.
An organization with ties to the Chinese Communist Party has unveiled new plans on how the government can enforce its restrictions on churches, including forced registration with state-run Christian institutions.
Pope Francis has stated on Thursday that priests who have been found guilty of sexually abusing minors will have no right to appeal and he will never grant a papal pardon.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to create an investigative team that will collect evidence of genocide and war crimes committed by the Islamic State terror group against civilians in Iraq.
A London-area church drew controversy earlier this week after its building was used for a fashion show that incorporated heavy occult and satanic symbolism.
A new study has found that the U.S. and the U.K. are among the top consumers of propaganda produced by the Islamic State terror group.
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has announced that the battle to liberate Raqqa from the Islamic State has now reached its final stages and its fighters have captured 80 percent of the city.
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.