The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will not be traveling to South Sudan this year after it was determined that the proposed trip would be too dangerous due to the deteriorating situation in the war-torn country.
Government authorities in India have detained as many as 10 Christians earlier this month for allegedly kidnapping and attempting to convert dozens of children, who came from Christian families.
Ontario's Attorney General has announced plans to introduce a legislation that would prohibit pro-life protesters and sidewalk counselors from standing in front of abortion clinics in the province.
The Church of England has announced its plans to vote on holding a "baptism-style" service for members who have changed their gender.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz recently recounted his conversation with a Sudanese Christian mother who refused to renounce her faith in Christ even while she was imprisoned and put on death row.
British intelligence officers have said that there may be as many as 23,000 jihadist extremists living in the U.K.
The Eritrean government has arrested nearly 100 Christians this month as part of the massive crackdown against unregistered churches.
The 29 Coptic Christians who were killed by the Islamic State at the start of Ramadan on Friday were reportedly asked to renounce their faith but they refused.
Chinese authorities cut off the power supply of two churches in Zhejiang province after they refused to install surveillance cameras in their buildings.
A Baptist pastor from Jakarta has claimed that Christianity is growing in Indonesia even as the influence of radical Islam continues to spread across the country.
Chinese authorities have imposed a fine amounting to 7 million yuan ($1,020,200 USD) on a banned house church in China's central Guizhou province.
A federal appeals court has handed a legal victory to churches, synagogues and other religious organizations challenging the Trump administration’s decision to permit immigration enforcement operations at places of worship. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed a lower court’s decision rejecting the religious groups’ request for a preliminary injunction.
Soaring food costs are jeopardizing the health and futures of millions of children worldwide, with families in vulnerable communities increasingly unable to afford nutritious meals, according to a new report from the Christian humanitarian organization World Vision. The report found that approximately 35.5 million children experienced acute malnutrition worldwide in 2025, including nearly 10 million who suffered from severe acute malnutrition.
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.