An Eritrean priest who was once nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for helping migrants cross the Mediterranean is now being investigated in Italy for aiding illegal immigration.
A private Christian school in Tennessee is facing a lawsuit for telling a 12-year-old boy to "turn the other cheek" when he reported that he was raped by other male students.
A court in Kazakhstan has fined a local Protestant pastor and five foreigners for holding an outdoor baptism near the country's commercial capital of Almaty.
A medical waste disposal company will now cease from disposing of aborted babies from Planned Parenthood after it canceled hundreds of contracts with the abortion provider's clinics.
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against a policy that requires Good News Clubs in Indiana to pay a fee for using a school's facilities while waiving fees for other groups.
A Catholic religious order in Belgium has been told by the Vatican to stop offering euthanasia to their psychiatric patients or face canonical sanctions.
Christian apologist Nabeel Qureshi, who was diagnosed with advanced-stage stomach cancer last year, is asking for prayers as he awaits to be released from the hospital following an operation to remove a feeding tube that got lodged in his throat.
PureFlix.com, a faith and family-friendly streaming service, is expanding its list of original content with the launch of the first Christian soap opera.
At least a dozen mothers are planning a "nurse-in" at Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina after a church member claimed that she was kicked out of a service for breastfeeding her baby.
The attacks against Christians in India have reached record high in the first half of 2017, with 410 reported incidents, nearly reaching the number of attacks in all of 2016.
A Nigerian pastor who serves as the education director of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) has been abducted by suspected Fulani herdsmen on Friday while he was traveling in central Nigeria's Plateau state.
More than half of Protestant pastors in the United States say economic conditions are negatively affecting their congregations, as church donations continue to lag behind inflation, according to a new Lifeway Research survey. The annual study found that 54% of pastors believe the economy is hurting their churches, compared with 36% who reported no impact and 8% who described its effects as positive.
A new federal school choice initiative is being hailed as the “greatest evangelism opportunity since the Billy Graham crusades,” with supporters expecting it to expand access to Christian education for millions of American children beginning in 2027. The Ohio-based Center for Christian Virtue has established the Christian Education Network Scholarship Granting Organization to provide financial assistance to families seeking Christian schooling.
The United Methodist Church (UMC) will convene its 2028 General Conference at two locations simultaneously for the first time in the denomination’s history, bringing together delegates in the United States and Africa for its highest legislative assembly. The UMC Commission on the General Conference announced Tuesday that Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Harare, Zimbabwe, will jointly host the gathering.
Christian persecution has worsened in more than half of 18 countries surveyed by a Catholic watchdog, raising concerns about the future of Christian communities in the Middle East. The Middle East has emerged as an area of particular concern, where prolonged instability threatens Christianity’s presence in its historic birthplace.
Multisite churches are expanding rapidly across the United States, attracting nearly one in 10 Protestant churchgoers, but their growth is increasingly outpacing the development of qualified leaders, according to a new national study. The report identified more than 1,800 multisite churches operating over 6,000 campuses nationwide, highlighting the growing influence of congregations that maintain multiple worship locations under a unified organizational structure.