Famed televangelist Benny Hinn has been denounced by his own nephew because of his efforts in promoting the "prosperity gospel," which holds that believers can obtain health and wealth through positive confessions of faith and payments of tithes and offerings.
A Jackson County judge has denied a request to block a Missouri law that required abortionists to meet with their patients three days prior to the procedure.
A Christian campaign group has denounced the British government's plan to provide free abortion services for pregnant women from Northern Ireland, where the procedure is heavily restricted.
A Catholic student group at Georgetown University is in danger of being sanctioned after it was accused of being a "hate group" for promoting its belief that marriage is "monogamous and permanent union between a man and a woman."
A court in Portugal has angered women's rights groups for quoting the Bible and a 19th-century law to justify a suspended sentence for a man who assaulted his ex-wife with a spiked bat over allegations of adultery.
The Islamic State has reportedly executed at least 116 residents of a Christian town in Syria before the terror group was driven out by government troops.
The BBC is being accused of partially omitting survey results that showed the British public is not in favor of decriminalizing abortion.
The U.K.'s international development minister has suggested that British Islamic State militants should not be allowed to return to the country and be killed on the battlefields of Iraq and Syria instead.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has begun to hear the arguments in the case challenging the preservation grant scheme that allows historic churches in the state to receive taxpayer funds to fix damages to their buildings.
Five leaders of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC) were arrested and detained on Sunday after they refused to comply with an order to cancel worship services at their church.
There were no children attending worship services at about a quarter of Church of England's congregations, according to the latest figures.
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.