Perry Noble, the founder of NewSpring Church in South Carolina, has asked his followers for prayers as he announced on Wednesday that he is now divorcing his wife, Lucretia, after 17 years of marriage.
A Cuban pastor has warned that the communist government is blocking the efforts of religious charities to provide humanitarian aid to the victims of Hurricane Irma.
Planned Parenthood sparked controversy on Tuesday after the abortion provider claimed in a tweet that it is "statistically safer" for a black woman in the U.S. to have an abortion than give birth to a baby.
A school district in Georgia has prohibited a high school football coach from participating in a student-led prayer following a complaint from a prominent secularist group.
A pastor has been arrested for allegedly trafficking dozens of young girls through an orphanage run by a Christian organization he founded in 1989.
Pro-life pregnancy centers are fighting back against an online campaign that aims to inundate their business sites with negative reviews and label their facilities as "fake clinics."
Belgian police arrested a group of youths who were praying the rosary to protest a service celebrating the Protestant Reformation at a Catholic cathedral in Brussels.
A superior court judge in California has blocked a law that requires pregnancy centers in the state to provide information about taxpayer-funded abortion programs.
A top administrative court in France has ruled that a cross from a memorial of the late Pope John Paul II in Brittany must be removed because it violates a 1905 law imposing the strict separation of Church and State.
Evangelical pastor and author Jonathan Martin has claimed that he was removed from the campus of Liberty University on Monday night because he criticized the school's president, Jerry Falwell Jr.
Researchers from Cambridge University have suggested that the miracle described in the Book of Joshua when "the sun stood still, and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance on its enemies" may have been the earliest recorded solar eclipse.
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.
New York Times bestselling author and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey has drawn mixed reactions from Christians after questioning whether believers should embrace Halloween festivities and consume horror-themed entertainment. During the Oct. 19 episode of her “Relatable” podcast, Stuckey addressed the different ways Christians approach Halloween, acknowledging that the subject involves personal convictions and differing interpretations of Christian freedom.
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.