Former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann called on Christians to convert as many followers as possible, arguing that Jesus is \"coming soon" in a recent interview.
After Iranian protesters made international headlines for chanting \"death to America\" at the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran earlier this week, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei argued that the aggressive phrase does not imply \"death to the American people.\"
A U.S. Congressman denounced a Washington school district for putting a praying football coach on administrative leave recently, arguing that such instances are examples of religious persecution in the United States.
Thousands of Iranians reportedly gathered in Tehran on Wednesday to burn U.S. flags and effigies in celebration of the closing of the U.S. Embassy in 1979.
2016 presidential hopeful and Texas Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill this week that would identify the Muslim Brotherhood political party as a terrorist organization.
Former reality television star Jessa Seewald recently celebrated her one-year wedding anniversary with husband Ben Seewald, honoring her newlywed spouse on social media.
Outspoken 2016 presidential hopeful Donald Trump is receiving criticism for recently describing the head of the Democratic National Committee as a \"terrible person\" and \"highly neurotic.\"
The leaders of France's two main Protestant umbrella organizations have agreed to create a standing forum for dialogue and cooperation, following a two-day meeting both described as unprecedented. Delegations from the executive boards of the Protestant Federation of France, known by its French initials FPF, and the National Council of Evangelicals in France, or CNEF, met Sept. 3-4 at the Domaine du Lazaret in Sète.
Evangelicals in the United Kingdom are “younger, more ethnically diverse, and more likely to be male than the wider population,” according to a new report from the Evangelical Alliance UK. “Adults under 35 are the age group most likely to identify as Evangelical and to hold Evangelical beliefs,” the report reads. “Approximately a third of the most committed Evangelicals come from ethnically diverse backgrounds, while an estimated 60% of Evangelicals are male.”
President Donald Trump has nominated Cissie Graham Lynch to serve as U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, a State Department position focused on promoting religious liberty abroad. The White House announced that the nomination of Jane Lynch, better known as Cissie Graham Lynch, had been sent to the Senate for consideration.
American Bible Society research suggests that Christians who are more active in their faith and Bible reading are less likely to struggle with forgiving themselves and others. Overall, 29% of respondents said “It is really hard for me to accept myself once I’ve messed up” was “true of me,” while 56% said it was “not true of me.”
The Archbishop of Canterbury has withdrawn an interfaith award given to Pakistani Muslim cleric Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi after past remarks praising Osama bin Laden resurfaced, raising questions in Pakistan about why he was recommended for the honor by Church of Pakistan’s Moderator Bishop Azad Marshall.