Church officials in Somerset, England are defending their decision to allow the filming of "Hellboy" at the Wells Cathedral following criticisms from some parishioners.

A Canberra-based entertainment company has fired a Christian woman after she publicly indicated that she would vote no in Australia's same-sex marriage postal survey.

An evangelical church in Brisbane, Australia has received numerous threats, including one that urged people to set the building on fire, after it displayed a billboard declaring, "God designed marriage between a man and a woman."

An Australian tribunal has found that a Christian school in Melbourne discriminated against a 5-year-old Sikh boy when it refused to admit him because he wore a turban.

A Christian-run academy in China's central Henan province was closed down by the authorities following allegations that it was "brainwashing" its students.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said that religious freedom will be protected in the country regardless of the outcome of the postal survey on the legalization of same-sex marriage.

An Egyptian court has handed down a death sentence to seven people over links to the Islamic State terror group and the beheadings of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya in February 2015.

Philippine troops have rescued a Roman Catholic priest, who has been held hostage in the southern city of Marawi for almost four months by Islamic State-linked rebels, as the military launched its "final push" to recapture the city.

Eritrean Christians have expressed concern regarding the current status of Patriarch Antonios of the Eritrean Orthodox Church who has been under house arrest since January 2007.

Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil, the Indian priest who was recently released from captivity in Yemen, says that he was not physically harmed by his captors even though they appeared to hit him in videos.

A new poll has indicated that a majority of Christians who identified as members of Church of England do not read the Bible.