A California court has dismissed nearly all of the felony charges against two pro-life activists responsible for recording undercover videos that purportedly showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sales of aborted baby body parts.
The Islamic State has blown up the historic Grand al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul, where the terrorist group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared a caliphate in 2014.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam held a ceremonial signing of a legislation that bans abortions after 24 weeks in the presence of pro-life leaders at Legislative Plaza on Wednesday.
The Catholic Church in Montreal, Canada has announced that it will start fingerprinting priests and church volunteers who work with minors as part of its efforts to protect young parishioners from abuse.
The family of a Canadian pastor imprisoned in North Korea has raised concerns about his welfare and calls on the government to secure his release following the death of American student Otto Warmbier.
The United Nations has accused the Congolese government of backing a militia that was said to have stabbed pregnant women and mutilated toddlers in the Kasai region.
An elderly Christian woman traveled 10 miles from Ilford, east London to Finsbury Park on her mobility scooter to apologize to an imam for the mosque attack carried out by a 48-year-old man on Monday.
A new report released by the Pew Research Center has found that a majority of Czechs are religiously unaffiliated, and many are rejecting the belief in God.
A pro-life group in Oregon is celebrating a victory after a bill that would have allowed dementia and mentally ill patients to be starved to death failed to advance in the state's House of Representatives.
A 10-year-old Egyptian schoolboy, who survived an attack carried out by the Islamic State terror group in May, recently recounted how the militants killed his father and dozens of other Coptic Christians.
Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary who was imprisoned in North Korea for two years, has described the death of American student Otto Warmbier an "outrage."
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.