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Durham Cathedral tomorrow opens its doors to a new £3.9 million exhibition telling the history of the 923-year-old building and its 14th century monastic life, with treasures from the past and present.
Egyptians must unite in the face of violence, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church said on Thursday.
Pope Francis played a key role in facilitating the recent rapprochement between Cuba and the US, and he made a highly significant visit to the Central African Republic last November despite frequent outbreaks of violence there
Three Christians were subject to a brutal attack in central India after being questioned about their faith.
Pope Francis will meet with Holocaust survivors and visit the Auschwitz concentration camp next Friday, but instead of making a speech he will carry out his visit "in silent pain, compassion and tears."
Gunmen went on a shooting rampage in a shopping mall in the southern German city of Munich on Friday, killing and wounding many people, police said.
Eight people have been killed and many wounded in the shooting at a shopping mall in southern Germany on Friday and the gunmen are still at large, a police spokesman said.
The man found dead near the scene of a bloody shooting at a Munich shopping centre killed himself and was likely the sole shooter in the attack, a spokesman for the Munich police said on Saturday.
The man found dead near the scene of a bloody shooting at a Munich shopping centre killed himself and was likely the sole shooter in the attack, a spokesman for the Munich police said on Saturday.
They were homeless Muslim refugees in England. It was snowing and they were starving. They thought they could find shelter at least for a few hours inside a mosque.
Chaldean Christians are caught in the middle of a "furious debate" over whether they should stay in their ancestral home in Iraq despite the ongoing genocide at the hands of ISIS, or flee as refugees.
A group of nuns in Argentina is being investigated over accusations they helped to hide a stash of money and jewelry.
A joint study based on hundreds of documents from the National Council for Curriculum & Assessment says that the state-sponsored religious education course at second level should not be compulsory.
Romania moved a step closer to ruling out the possibility of legalising same-sex marriage on Wednesday when its top court paved the way for a referendum on defining marriage in the constitution as a union strictly between a man and a woman.
Questions remain about the fate of abducted Indian priest Tom Uzhunnalil, who was abducted in March by armed militants in Yemen, even after a video was released on social media purporting to show a frail, weakened and bearded Uzhunnalil being beaten.
Questions remain about the fate of abducted Indian priest Tom Uzhunnalil, who was abducted in March by armed militants in Yemen, even after a video was released on social media purporting to show a frail, weakened and bearded Uzhunnalil being beaten.
More than 100 Vietnamese Christian pastors have been locked up and are at risk of being poisoned for refusing to sign up to a central, official church, according to Christian Aid Mission.
The Republican Vice-Presidential candidate abandoned the Catholic Church to become an evangelical after he "gave my life to Jesus"
Over three quarters of Americans want the next president to address Christian persecution, according to a Harris poll commissioned by Open Doors USA
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has attacked the pastor behind the #ThisFlag mass protest movement that has heavily criticised his government.
Riding a small bike for six hours under a blazing sun? No problem. Living in a tent for days to wait for school opening? No problem. Living on a box of cereal and two gallons of water until he finds a job? No problem.
Even though persecution against Christians in Bangladesh is on the rise, so is the number of Muslims converting to Christianity in the south Asian nation.
Gunmen detonated explosives inside an Orthodox Assyrian church on Monday, setting fire to ancient icons and reducing much of its contents to ashes.
The attacks are the most deadly on civilians since Coalition forces started bombing Islamic State forces.
A video purporting to show the beating of Fr Tom Uzhunnalil, the priest kidnapped by militants in Yemen, has surfaced online.
Around 50,000 soldiers, police, judges, civil servants and teachers have been suspended or detained since the coup attempt.
More than 130 people have been killed in Nigeria in devastating attacks by mainly Muslim Fulani herdsmen since June.
Former Congressman Frank Wolf has noted that Christians in Nigeria, who are among the millions of displaced people suffering due to the action of radical groups, are feeling abandoned by Western churches that are failing to speak out on the developing humanitarian tragedy.
It is thought to be the first case of its kind since the police acquired new powers against unrecognised religions last year.
A girl aged 14 has been abducted, raped and forced into an Islamic marriage in Pakistan. Her father was shot dead when he sold his house in an attempt to buy her freedom.
The killing of the bishop was one of the most notorious crimes in recent Guatemalan history.
An atheist group is demanding the removal of a Christian flag from a Georgia courthouse, saying it violates the U.S. Constitution.
Planed Parenthood will close six abortion clinics in Indiana this year as the number of patients dropped dramatically by half.
The father of a 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl was shot and killed after he tried to rescue his daughter who was kidnapped and forced into an Islamic marriage to a man she works for as a domestic servant.
Turkey vowed to root out allies of the U.S.-based cleric it blames for an abortive coup last week, widening a purge of the army, police and judiciary on Tuesday to universities and schools, the intelligence agency and religious authorities.
The incident is likely to deepen worries about so-called "lone wolf" attacks in Europe and could put political pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Findings by a Child Protection Rapid Assessment (or CPRA, a consortium comprising of World Vision, Unicef and Plan International) found that El Niño was severely impacting on children, some of whom are also being forced into early marriages
The attack came nearly two weeks after the fatal police shooting of a black man in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, sparked nationwide protests.
The incident is the latest in a string of attacks against Christians, especially in the Minya region, home to a relatively high proportion of Coptic Christians
The attack came nearly two weeks after the fatal police shooting of a black man there sparked nationwide protests.
Evolutionary biologist and atheist author Richard Dawkins has split from his wife, "Dr. Who" actress Lalla Ward, after 24 years of marriage, but has decided to keep the details of their divorce under wraps.
The armed conflict that has been the result of political tension in South Sudan has displaced thousands of residents, and a Roman Catholic official is desperately calling for aid to help his people stay alive.
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore came out with a joint statement last week supporting the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA).
Thousands of people in Venezuela are experiencing severe hunger due to the economic meltdown that hit the South American country, yet their own leaders will not allow Roman Catholic organisations to send help.
Four in ten Americans no longer believe that churches and other houses of worship make a difference when it comes to tackling social concerns, according to Pew Research Center findings
Willie Kimani, Josephat Mwenda and their driver Joseph Muiruri disappeared last month in Nairobi after Kimani filed a case on behalf of Mwenda against a police officer who allegedly shot him
A Catholic priest has reported finding one of two warehouses belonging to the charity Care 4 Calais empty and the other barely two thirds full after visiting the migrant encampment known as "the jungle"
Dr Williams said he was praying for peace in the country, where 300 lives have been lost and thousands displaced from their homes in the capital, Juba.
A group of several hundred Muslim youths have stormed and destroyed a Catholic church in Nigeria, days after a female pastor was hacked to death and a week after the similarly brutal killing of another, male evangelical pastor
Pokemon Go crashes and hackers are claiming responsibility. Recent updates from Pokemon Go app officials.
"I do it for faith." Those five words sum up the motivation of this 90-year-old man who for more than half a century has been building a huge cathedral on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain mostly by his own hands.
Something remarkable is happening in America following the killing of five police officers in Dallas on July 7 by a black sniper who was reportedly infuriated by police shootings of black men.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the truck attack on the French city of Nice on Saturday as French police arrested three people there in connection with the carnage that claimed the lives of at least 84 people.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the truck attack in the French city of Nice on Saturday and police arrested three more people there after the carnage that claimed the lives of at least 84 people.
Church members in China have been threatened with being sued and their children barred from college, a persecution charity has said.
Indiana governor Mike Pence is regarded as a safe pick for Trump, whose unpredictability and frequently outlandish statements have alarmed the Republican establishment
France experienced a horrific terrorist attack Thursday evening that claimed the lives of 84 people and left 202 injured. The tragedy comes less than a year after the Paris attacks that killed more than 100 people.
Amer Saka of St Joseph Chaldean Church in London, Onterio, is said to have obtained the funds from more than twenty people who believed they were giving to a sponsorship programme to bring refugee families to Canada
An Iraqi bishop has criticized the nations of the world for not working together to help suffering Iraqi Christians, and said only education can defeat the Islamic State terror group.
The family of Maryam Naghash Zargaran are seriously concerned for her life after she refused to end her hunger strike.
The Democrat has a huge majority of support among Latino Catholics, but the Republican enjoys a small majority among white Catholics.
The death of a senior ISIS leader has been confirmed by a news agency linked to the militant group.
An attacker killed at least 73 people and injured 100 when he drove a truck at high speed into crowds watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, local media quoted officials as saying.
An attacker killed at least 75 people and injured 100 when he drove a truck at high speed into crowds watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, local media quoted officials as saying.
An attacker killed up to 80 people and injured scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said.
An attacker killed up to 80 people and injured scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said.
A Zimbabwean court has dismissed charges against a pastor accused of trying to overthrow the government through an internet campaign that inspired rare protests against President Robert Mugabe.
Maryam Naghash Zargaran, an Iranian Christian woman who is being imprisoned for her faith, is on a hunger strike after judicial authorities forced her back into jail and refused her an extended leave permit for medical treatment.
Although a ceasefire has been declared in South Sudan following days of devastating fighting, a humanitarian emergency has gripped the nation with untold numbers massacred, and thousands more seeking refuge inside churches.
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned the Muhammadu Buhari administration over increasing violence against non-Muslims and warned Christians to defend themselves following the murder at the weekend of a female Christian preacher by suspected fanatics
Seven Protestant Christians and a pastor could be tried for proselytising after being found distributing Bibles to school-children
The Pope said he was praying for the injured and the families of the victims
The Anglican Church of Canada has voted to approve same-sex marriage after all after church leaders confessed to an embarrassing error when counting the votes.
A conservative group is calling on the House Armed Services Committee to support legislation that would allow members of the U.S. military to protect Afghan boys from being sexually abused and tortured at the hands of ally fighters.
The world appears to be witnessing now the final battle between Christ and Satan.
Two Pentecostal Christians are believed to be among five Indian villagers including a five-month-old baby who were killed on July 8 during a shoot-out between security officers and Maoists in the eastern state of Odisha
A Muslim man in the Iraqi city of Balad sacrificed his own life by hugging an ISIS militant who was wearing a suicide vest, saving hundreds of lives in the process.
Two sisters of a Pakistani Christian man who fled from his home after he was accused of blasphemy have been arrested and tortured by police officers in hopes they would turn over their brother.
Views of Muslims in countries in Europe are least negative in the UK and most negative in eastern and southern countries, according to new research. However, unfavourable views of Muslims are on the rise throughout Europe, including in the UK.
A new split in the worldwide Anglican Communion was narrowly averted last night when clergy in Canada succeeded in preventing their church moving towards same-sex marriage.
China has boycotted the hearings at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, saying it does not have jurisdiction to decide on the matter.
Two sisters of a Pakistani Christian man who fled from his home after he was accused of blasphemy have been arrested and tortured by police officers in hopes they would turn over their brother.
A Christian mother of seven was hacked to death by suspected Muslim radicals in Nigeria and her mutilated body was discovered in a pool of blood along with a Bible and megaphone she used to preach every morning.
A Christian mother of seven was hacked to death by suspected Muslim radicals in Nigeria and her mutilated body was discovered in a pool of blood along with a Bible and megaphone she used to preach every morning.
South Sudan is in turmoil. Last Thursday, fighting erupted in the capital city of Juba between troops loyal to rivals President Salva Kiir and vice-president Riek Machar. Since then, the violence escalated and hundreds have been killed, including dozens of civilians.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide has published moving testimony of what it was like for the pastor and his family when government officials demolished Emanuel Church in eastern Cuba.
A Christian man in Pakistan has been charged under a blasphemy law which has a mandatory death penalty, for allegedly sending his Muslim friend a poem on the mobile phone app Whatsapp that was considered insulting towards the Prophet Muhammad.
Russian President Vladimir Putin officially signed into law this week a measure punishing any kind of religious evangelization outside of churches, which some observers have called one of the most restrictive moves in "post-Soviet history."
The Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of Minya in Egypt has called on police to enforce the law protecting citizens from sectarian violence after a series of attacks against Christians in the country
Anyone who persuades a Christian Arab in Israel not to volunteer for military service or to desert once they have joined could face prison according to a new law.
A Roman Catholic bishop in Bangladesh said that the failure of families to rise up their children with morals, along with Islamic brainwashing schools that target students, are big reasons for the rise of radical Islamic terror.
After years of debate, the Anglican Church of Canada is expected to vote today on gay marriage. However there is strong opposition from some bishops and the measure is not certain to get the two-thirds majority it needs to pass.
The first ever Philistine cemetery with 150 burials, dating back from 11th to 8th century BC, has been discovered after more than 30 years of excavating on the outskirts of the sea-port of Ashkelon in Israel.
More than half a million Iraqi children are estimated to be at work rather than at school, UNICEF has warned.
An attorney for an Army Reserve officer who is facing charges of making death threats and leaving a bacon outside a mosque in Raeford, North Carolina, has requested a court on Wednesday to give them more time to investigate the accusations, saying the accused has a distinguished military record.
Lawyers for Dylann Roof, the suspect in the shooting and killing of nine people inside the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina in June last year, are challenging the federal hate crimes law which their client has been accused of breaking even as they seek to convince prosecutors not to pursue the death penalty.
Protesters clogged roadways in New York City, Atlanta and Philadelphia, and events in San Francisco and Phoenix also drew large crowds.
The lawsuit is the latest salvo in a nationwide debate over rights for transgender people.
The Indian Economic Times reported that audits found discrepancies in the books of the Church of South India Trust Association.
A young Nigerian who fled Boko Haram to seek asylum in Italy has been murdered in a racist assault.
NBA sensation Kevin Durant has joined forces with fellow believer and two-time MVP Stephen Curry at the Golden State Warriors, officially sealing the deal on Thursday.
NBA sensation Kevin Durant has joined forces with fellow believer and two-time MVP Stephen Curry at the Golden State Warriors, officially sealing the deal on Thursday.
More than 30 people were murdered and at least 60 injured in the latest Islamic State terror attack in Iraq.
Typhoon Nepartak has come to Taiwan Friday morning via its eastern coast bringing super strong winds of 234km/h.
Five Dallas police officers have been killed and six wounded after a sniper opened fire during a protest against the recent shooting of two black men by police. An armed stand-off is ongoing.
Five Dallas police officers have been killed and six wounded after a sniper opened fire during a protest against the recent shooting of two black men by police. An armed stand-off is ongoing.
Being one of the most active volcanoes in the Aleutian Range of the Alaska Peninsula, recent report have claimed that the seismic activity of Pavlof Volcano had increased after its March and May eruptions.
The Anglican Church in Japan, the Nippon Sei Ko Kai (NSKK), has apologised for its participation in the inhumane treatment of leprosy patients.
The Church Mission Society (CMS) in Oxford, England, is planning to recruit 1,000 new missionaries to help bring about change in different countries.
A Florida man has been charged with attempting to damage a Jewish synagogue in addition to his previous indictment of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against a person or property.
Jews for Jesus, a ministry committed to sharing the Gospel with Jewish people all over the world, has said that hostility and anti-Christian, anti-Messianic Jew sentiments among the Orthodox Jewish population in Israel remains very strong, with only small numbers turning toward Jesus Christ.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has reinstated a Muslim policeman who was suspended last month for refusing to shave his beard.
An ancient tomb has been discovered in a church in Turkey, possibly belonging to a king or bishop.
Was Blair right to go to war? Not intervening could have been so much worse, argues Ruth Gledhill.
Christianity is growing so fast and so noisily in parts of Nigeria that the authorities are actually having to shut churches down - to secure peace and quiet for local residents.
The Syrian army said it would observe a 72-hour "regime of silence" to mark the Islamic festival of Eid al-Fitr.
Justin Welby pledged last September to personally take in refugees from Syria, with the gesture following a similar move by the Pope.
Christian athlete and former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow has earned praises following reports that he prayed for a man when the latter suffered a major heart attack on board a Delta flight late last month. But not everyone is happy with what he did.
Dozens of church leaders have backed a powerful call to action against the Iranian theocratic regime, a year after Western powers lifted economic sanctions on the Islamic state.
Bishops in Malawi have warned that their country is facing a national food crisis as latest governent figures suggest nearly half of the population could be going hungry.
Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
The US has criticised Israel for its plans to build hundreds of new homes in Palestinian territory.
Islamic State militants are using encrypted mobile apps like WhatsApp and Telegram to list the abused sex slaves they have for sale.
Islamic State militants are using encrypted mobile apps like WhatsApp and Telegram to sell trafficked girls who are repeatedly raped and tortured by pedophile terrorists.
Islamic State militants are using encrypted mobile apps like WhatsApp and Telegram to sell trafficked girls who are repeatedly raped and tortured by pedophile terrorists.
In a land beset with religious and political conflicts since time immemorial, a hospital is showing that inter-religious harmony and peaceful co-existence is still possible.
An "exemplary" Christian teacher from the U.K. who was fired by officials at the school where she worked for more than a decade after she refused to divorce her pedophile husband has won compensation for wrongful dismissal.
Finding strength in Jesus Christ, Jason Sheats is starting to recover from the unimaginable horrors that he witnessed ironically on his birthday on June 24.
Tim Tebow is spending part of his summer in the Philippines visiting with children who live at the orphanage his father founded 25 years ago.
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered two mosaics that show extremely rare Biblical scenes.
Displaying its newest barbaric method of execution, the Islamic State terrorist organization executed seven of its own fighters on Monday by boiling them to death.
Police in Pakistan are doing little to protect Christians from the harassment they face from the Muslim majority, including threats to convert to Islam or abandon their homes, according to Asian Human Rights Commission report.
Police in Pakistan are doing little to protect Christians from the harassment they face from the Muslim majority, including threats to convert to Islam or abandon their homes, according to Asian Human Rights Commission report.
Muslims in the UK begin their celebrations on Wednesday to mark the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting.
Typhoon Nepartak nearing Taiwan and China
The new Archbishop of Kenya is spoken of by friends and admirers with not so much shock as a considerable amount of awe.
Hundreds of thousands of Christians across India are faced with a sobering ultimatum: hide their faith, or risk harassment, intimidation, and even death.
Atheists will put up an anti-God billboard in Mississippi, which a study showed as the most religious U.S. state.
A 3-year-old Swedish boy who was being groomed by his radicalized mother to be a part of the next generation of Islamic State jihadis has died after he accidentally blew himself up with a hand grenade in Syria.
ROME — A homeless man was arrested by the Italian police on suspicion of homicide in connection with the death of an American student.
The death toll from a suicide bombing in a Baghdad shopping district has risen to over 150, fuelling calls for security forces to crack down on Islamic State sleeper cells blamed for one of the worst ever single bombings in Iraq.
Donald Trump sparked a furious row over antisemitism after he tweeted a photo of Hillary Clinton next to a Star of David against a background of dollar bills.
On July 23 this year, Bernice Underwood will turn 100, joining her two best friends—Gladys Butler and Ruth Hammett—as centenarians. A fourth friend, Leona Barnes, would have turned 100, too, this July, but she passed away last May.
Anti racist actions happened across London during rush hour - organised by London Citizens - which is made up of churches and other civil society groups.
Christian dating sites have been forced to cater for an LGBT audience after it was judged they contravened anti-discrination laws.
The attack on the shopping area of Karrada is the deadliest since the Iraqi government dislodged Islamic State from its stronghold of Fallujah.
After nearly three years of legal wrangling, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service has agreed to give asylum to Viktor Lim, who was born in Uzbekistan and is of Korean ancestry.
67-year-old Bill Burchfield from Georgia twice escaped prison after pleading guilty to the voluntary manslaughter of his wife.
Nearly 120 people were killed and 200 wounded in two bombings overnight in Baghdad, most of them in a busy shopping area as residents celebrated Ramadan, police and medical sources said on Sunday.
Bangladeshi Islamist terrorists, who held hostages at a cafe in the national capital of Dhaka Friday through Saturday, spared and provided meals to those who were able to recite a verse from the Quran, but hacked to death the other 20 hostages, who were mostly foreigners and included a U.S. citizen, according to the father of a Muslim survivor.
Cannabis has been long known to have addictive effects on a person. Recent studies, however, show that cannabis actually have medicinal benefits helpful to some health conditions.
Islamist militants shouting "Allahu Akbar" attacked an upscale cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, killing 20 foreigners inside, before police stormed the building on Saturday and rescued 13 hostages, officials said.
Five people were killed and another 22 were wounded early on Saturday when a man entered a cafe in northern Serbia and opened fire with an assault rifle, police said.
Islamic gunmen shouting "Allahu Akbar" attacked an upscale cafe in the Bangladeshi capital, killing 20 people inside, before police stormed the building on Saturday and rescued 13 hostages, officials said.
In the United States, the end of the month-long Ramadan of Muslims, popularly known as Eid al-Fitr, will be celebrated on Tuesday, a day after the 4th of July.
A small town in New Zealand is actively searching for potential residents, luring them with about a thousand of job openings and $165,000 just to relocate to this rural locality.
Three men who claimed to be movie financiers were indicted Tuesday for allegedly defrauding investors of $12 million given to fund at least two Christian film productions starring Harry Connick Jr., Willie Nelson and Nicholas Cage.
A mass wave of Christian girls and women are being kidnapped and raped by Muslim men in Upper Egypt, a persecution watchdog group has warned.
A 13-year-old Israeli girl with U.S. citizenship was stabbed to death by a Palestinian man who broke into her bedroom in the occupied West Bank, who was later shot dead by security guards.
The US is giving hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to countries that use and recruit child soldiers.
Shaymanonda Das, 45, was killed in front of a temple in Jhinaidah district headquarter, 300 km south west of the capital Dhaka.
The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (PCUSA) caused a stir after a Muslim prayer was recited at its General Assembly held last week in Portland, Oregon.
A Christian fellowship has won a three-year-old lawsuit against a school district in Ohio state over the imposition of fees for the use of its facilities.
The North Carolina State University is facing a lawsuit from a Christian student group over its policy that requires students to get a permit before they can talk to anyone about Jesus.
The law will prohibit evangelism anywhere outside a church or religious site – including private homes and online – and those in breach of it will be fined.
An Ohio judge has declared that a man charged with shooting his pastor brother last February is mentally competent to stand trial.
The draft report by the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations said the Israeli policy "is steadily eroding the viability of the two state solution".
Gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday and the U.S. State department said there was a hostage situation.
Gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday and the U.S. State department said there was a hostage situation.
Gunmen attacked a restaurant popular with foreigners in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday and the U.S. State department said there was a hostage situation.
Bangladeshi police stormed a Dhaka restaurant on Saturday to free 20 hostages, including several foreigners, that were trapped inside after gunmen had launched an attack on the upscale eatery late on Friday night, an official said.
Six gunmen were killed and 13 hostages, including three foreigners, were rescued on Saturday during a police operation inside a Dhaka restaurant that came under attack, Indian television channel Times Now reported.
Willie Kimani has been found dead in Kenya along with his client and a taxi driver following their abduction in the capital city of Nairobi.
Three men who claimed to be financiers of Christian movies were indicted Tuesday for allegedly defrauding investors of $12 million given to fund films starring Harry Connick Jr. and Willie Nelson, among others.
Two Taliban suicide bombers killed up to 40 police cadets and civilians and wounded another 40 in an attack on a military convoy outside Kabul.
A human rights lawyer has been abducted in Kenya along with his client and a taxi driver after a court hearing in the capital.
Reports said Jeremy Corbyn had compared Israel to ISIS. Corbyn made his remarks at the launch on an inquiry into antisemitism in the Labour Party – after a string of incidents where Labour members have made offensive comments about Jewish people.
Christians living in Hunter village in the Indian state of Jharkhand are facing dual threats from police who are barring them from worshiping and Hindu radicals who are threatening to kill them.
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that a Christian University can be denied accreditation because of its opposition to homosexuality.
Two Christians and a Muslim have been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan on Monday.
Enduring the pain and suffering from a losing battle with cancer, a nun from Argentina still showed a radiant, smiling face for days until she breathe her last on June 22. She was 43.
Leaders of The Episopal Church in the United States have spoken out against laws that restrict access of transgender people to public bathrooms and other facilities.
A senior church leader in Zimbabwe has urged President Robert Mugabe to resign over reported incidents of torture, harassment and abduction of civilians.
A group of atheists has forced a public school district to ban the showing of a creationist movie after it sent a complain to say that it is unlawful.
At the heart of the successful Brexit movement was one man: Nigel Farage. The 52-year-old leader of the UK Independence Party is considered the champion of the effort to leave the EU. Yet who is Farage?
One attacker opened fire in the departures hall with an automatic rifle, sending passengers diving for cover and trying to flee, before all three blew themselves up.
The head of the Syriac Orthodox Church has condemned the spread of "hatred" and thanked God for his protection after being targeted for assassination in Syria last week.
The leaders of the Orthodox Christian churches from around the world called for the protection of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East and warned against "negative consequences" of scientific progress as they ended a historic meeting on the Greek island of Crete, which was boycott by the Russian church.
Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of Saeed Abedini, said that when her family came to America as Muslims immigrants fleeing war, they were converted to Christianity by the love of Christ shown by the American people.
Justin Welby did not blame leave campaigners but said: "People who are of evil will are using this as an excuse, a mere sham for their hatred to be expressed."
Gay Catholic groups want the Pope to do more than just apologise for how the Church has treated LGBT people, asking for action to follow his recent comments on the matter.
A nine-year-old Ugandan boy was tied to a tree and burned by his father after he converted from Islam to Christianity, according to Morning Star News.
A federal judge has ruled that Mississippi clerks cannot use religious beliefs as a reason not to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, despite a bill passed by the state legislature intended to carve out that exception for them.
Three suicide bombers opened fire before blowing themselves up at the entrance to the main international airport in Istanbul on Tuesday, killing 50 people and wounding more than 140 others. The Islamic State terror group is believed to be responsible.
Three suicide bombers opened fire before blowing themselves up at the entrance to the main international airport in Istanbul on Tuesday, killing at least 31 people and wounding more than 140 others. The Islamic State terror group is believed to be responsible.
Raqqa was overrun by Islamic State miliants on 13 January 2014.
Fifty of the top Islamic clerics in Pakistan have issued a religious decree that gives transgender people the right to marry, and receive family inheritance and funeral rights, as long as individuals display "visible signs" that they belong to the gender they claim.
Donald Trump has recently accepted Jesus Christ and become a born again Christian.
Franklin Graham said "this is at least a temporary setback for the politicians in this country and around the world who want a one-world government and a one-world currency".
A Christian village in Lebanon has been hit by a series of devastating suicide attacks.
World leaders of the Orthodox Church have spoken out in support of Christians and other persecuted minorities in the Middle East.
A Muslim man in eastern Uganda tied his 9-year-old son to a tree and lit it on fire after his son converted to Christianity and refused to fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a Christian persecution watchdog group is reporting.
Four militants from the Islamic State terror group blew themselves up in the Christian village of Qaa in Lebanon close to the Syrian border, killing five people and wounding at least 15 others.
Twin brothers loyal to the Islamic State brutally stabbed their parents and older brother Friday because they were trying to stop them from joining the radical terrorist group.
The US Supreme Court has struck down a 2013 Texas law imposing strict regulations on abortion doctors and facilities
Misery indeed loves company in at least one refugee camp in Nigeria where thousands of people are being ravaged by diseases such as diarrhoea while starving to death.
The development for the second telescope for the outer space is underway and is aiming to be launched in 2018. NASA has extended the Hubble Space Telescope contract for another five years.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday retracted his allegation that Israeli rabbis had called for the poisoning of Palestinian water
A panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Indiana has reversed an earlier decision by a lower court banning a pro-life crisis pregnancy center from advertising on the bus system of Fort Wayne.
A bill at the California legislature that will eliminate religious exemptions for Christian colleges is moving forward through committees.
A Catholic school board in Ontario, Canada had adopted a policy to suspend and expel students who will be found liable for homophobia.
Four men were cleared by a jury on charges of heckling Pastor Joel Osteen at his Lake Church, the largest protestant congregation in the U.S., last year.
Mass shooting took place at a cinema in Germany. Attacker took hostages and was killed by the police, Thursday afternoon.
Nihad Narakat Shamo Alawsi was just 15 when she was captured by Islamic State when militants took control of her hometown of Sinjar, northern Iraq, in 2014.
The Pope is personally following the fate of Chinese Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin of Shanghai in China, according to the Vatican.
The Vicar of Baghdad was suspended by the charity he founded amid an investigation into alleged payments used to rescue Islamic State sex slaves, according to The Times.
Churches are celebrating following the declaration of a ceasefire in Colombia, ending five decades of civil war.
The world awoke Friday morning to the shocking news that U.K. citizens voted to leave the EU and Prime Minister David Cameron would be leaving office in three months, making way for a new leader who supported the Leave campaign.
More than 14,000 suspected drug traders and militants from Bangladesh were arrested by police officials last week in an attempt to stop the gruesome machete attacks being launched against Christians and atheists in the predominantly Muslim nation.
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Archaeologists have discovered a hidden underground monastery at the historical site of the Nev?ehir Castle in the Central Anatolian province of Turkey.
A Chinese Christian was arrested after he printed religious material for his house church.
The Catholic Church in the Phillipines will petition the new president against reintroducing the death penalty in the country, according to Fides.
Around 2,000 Bangladeshi Christians from various denominations gathered to pray for "humanity to wake up" to the growing threat of Islamic terrorism in the country.
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Our EU Referendum live blog will follow the results as they come in and the reaction to one of the biggest political events in a generation...
Our EU Referendum live blog will follow the results as they come in and the reaction to one of the biggest political events in a generation...
Democrats prayed and sang Christian civil rights anthem "We Shall Overcome" while staging a sit-in on the floor of the US House of Representatives to demand action on gun control in America.
The Pontiff has been a champion of persuading Europe to accept more refugees and migrants fleeing from the Middle East and north Africa.
A "catastrophic humanitarian emergency" is developing at a refugee camp in Nigeria where more than 1,200 graves have been dug for the deceased who starved to death after fleeing from their homes to escape the Islamic terror group Boko Haram, according to Medical charity MSF.
Catholic bishops in the Philippines condemned the sharp rise in police killings in the country days before President-elect Rodrigo Duterte takes office.
Faith groups are crucial in the fight against sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) according to Christian charity Tearfund.
Megachurch Pastor Kong Hee of City Harvest Church in Singapore revealed that he recently held a mass revival event for over 1,100 pastors from Southeast Asia, including China, where Christians face heavy government persecution.
Boko Haram has split internally, after a group rebelled because the leader Abubakar Shekau failed to adhere to guidance from ISIS, a senior US general said on Tuesday.
As the central African nation of Burundi continues to suffer from ongoing political unrest, Christian orphanage founder Marguerite Barankitse says she has been forced to flee the country to Rwanda, where she now lives.
A Christian family have been threatened with being burnt alive after a Muslim woman eloped with a Christian in Pakistan, according to the Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement.
A Muslim mob torched and looted the homes of 80 Christian families in the Al-Beida village in Egypt, looking to punish them for wanting to turn one of the buildings in the village into a church so they can worship.
Nuns in Vietnam have staged a sit-in to defend their property, claiming police failed to intervene in an attempted land grab.
In an interview with Korean media, American Christian missionary Kenneth Bae, who was detained in North Korea for two years, shares why he was arrested and how he was kept in prisons and labor camps in that country which is known to be the worst persecutor of Christians in the world.
In an interview with Korean media, American Christian missionary Kenneth Bae, who was detained in North Korea for two years, shares why he was arrested and how he was kept in prisons and labor camps in that country which is known to be the worst persecutor of Christians in the world.
The Indonesian government has reneged on a promise to abolish sharia law in the country, according to Human Rights Watch.
A conference of Maronite Catholic bishops has called for a Christian presence to remain in the Middle East and for believers to live alongside Muslims "in a climate of freedom, democracy and respect for diversity."
Christian homes and property have been attacked by a Muslim mob in Egypt over rumours a house under construction was being turned into a church.
Five Christians were on Monday acquitted of blasphemy charges in Pakistan and two were jailed for six months under the blasphemy law and anti-terrorist act.
In February this year, the World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern because of clusters of microcephaly and other neurological disorders in some areas affected by the Zika, a virus that spreads through the bite of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito.
As many as 60 members of her extended family were slaughtered, but Christian humanitarian worker Marguerite Barankitse chose to forgive the killers instead of crying out for vengeance.
There has never been more refugees than at the current time.
The United Nations has released statistics on World Refugee Day on Monday signaling that the refugee crisis has now affected 65.3 million people, the largest number since World War II.
Two separate suicide bombs killed more than 20 people in Afghanistan on Monday as the Taliban continued its insurgency against the Western-backed Kabul government.
Gospel singer James Fortune has shared a prayer as he continues to heal from his domestic violence problem in 2014. On Instagram, he shared "The OTHER Serenity Prayer" that he got in class.
The Satanic Temple is giving abortion provider Planned Parenthood assistance in the pro-abortion crusade in the U.S.
For the first time since 1967, the strawberry moon and summer solstice coincide Monday in a rare occurrence which will treat people all over world with a bright moonlight sky.
For the first time since 1967, the strawberry moon and summer solstice coincide Monday in a rare occurrence which will treat people all over world with a bright moonlight sky.
Dame Helena Kennedy said the campaign around the refugee crisis has been "a horrible toxic brew".
The Pope has given more than £75,000 to a new campaign to help refugees, prisoners, battered women and victims of terror attacks and persecution.
Syrian refugees in Turkey are failing to access vital support and must not be returned there by EU countries, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
Iraqi Christians who are joining Muslims in fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a sign of peace and solidarity are facing rebuke from other believers.
Donald Trump has called for racial profiling to combat terror in the United States.
Out of the frying pan into the fire. Such a fate has befallen a Christian family who fled persecution in Pakistan only to realise later on that their situation has gone from bad to worse.
Iraqi forces on Friday entered the centre of Fallujah, the Iraqi city longest held by Islamic State, nearly four weeks after the start of a US-backed offensive that cleared out the tens of thousands of residents still there.
In a gesture of compassion and solidarity, Christian residents struggling to survive in the war-ravaged Syrian city of Aleppo are providing food to even poorer Muslim families in their neighbourhood as they observe the Islamic month of Ramadan.
Likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has the support of white evangelical Christians, but it is far less than the support the group extended to previous GOP presidential candidates, a new survey showed.
Americans shared in the grief felt by a young couple from Nebraska who lost their two-year-old son Lane Graves to a seven-foot-long alligator which snatched and killed the boy while he was playing at the edge of the water at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday night.
Churches in Orlando, Florida are offering to host funeral services for the victims of the Pulse club mass shooting that left 50 people dead and dozens injured.
After weeks of fighting, Iraqi special forces backed by multiple airstrikes from a U.S.-led coalition on Friday recaptured the government headquarters and most other parts in the city of Fallujah from the Islamic State terror group, which has held the city since January 2014.
An organization of atheists has blocked a Christian group from participating in athletic programs in Kentucky, saying the act violated the U.S. Constitution by promoting religion.
An group of atheists has blocked a Christian group from participating in athletic programmes in Kentucky, saying it violates the U.S. Constitution by promoting religion.
Human rights campaigners have called on China to drop cases against human rights lawyers and to release those being detained in prison including Xia Lin and Zhou Shifeng.
A Chinese orthopedic surgeon who helped perform the first hand transplant in 1999 is looking to perform another medical first: transplanting a human head from one body to another.
Three Christian missionaries have gone missing in the Middle East following their release from a hospital earlier this week.
A senior Iraqi clergyman has distanced himself and the Church from groups of militias carrying Christian symbols.
Set an entirely fictional reality in which the earth is flat and Egyptian gods walk it alongside mere mortals, the plot involves a power struggle between two sibling deities for control over the earth.
There is enough evidence for an indictment and the report is in effect a "road map for future prosecution", a press conference launching the report was told.
Marguerite Barankitse, a Christian humanitarian worker who rescued tens of thousands of children in her orphanages in the wake of the Burundian civil war, has said that forgiveness must be offered to everyone, even to those that killed 60 people in her own extended family.
Eleven people in India have been given life sentences after being convicted for a notorious attack in 2002, in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died.
Genocide against Christians and Yazidis at the hand of ISIS may be recognised by the UK government after it hinted it would take action.
A year after the killing of nine people during a Bible study, their inspirational legacy and the foregiveness of their families resonates across the world.
Sexual violence and forced prostitution is a constant threat for children in refugee camps in Northern France, and some young women exchange sex for the promise of passage to the UK, a new report has found.
Dozens of faith leaders and celebrities have today urged governments around the world to take immediate action on the growing refugee crisis.
Christian schools at risk of collapse in Israel over a budget crisis have found salvation in the form of Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel.
Seven Christians have been arrested in Nepal for spreading the Gospel by handing out Bible handbooks to as many as 885 students in the Dolakha district, International Christian Concern reports.
The former wife and acquaintances of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen who killed 49 people suggested that he was gay as he frequented gay clubs in Florida for years.
A judge in Texas has dismissed one of two charges against David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress related to his indictment over an investigation by a grand jury of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston.
The Philippine government confirmed on Tuesday that the notorious Abu Sayyaf group has beheaded a second Canadian hostage after their demands for a $1.3-million ransom was not met.
Jihadists reportedly raided six villages near the city of al-Bab in Aleppo, and purposefully targeted Kurdish homes.
Researchers found that Bramble Cay Melomys -- rodents living on the Torres Strait in Australia have been declared extinct.
Thousands more people have fled from the Islamic State-held city of Fallujah through an exit corridor secured by the Iraqi army even as an offensive to retake the city from the terror group rages into its third week.
A Chinese human rights lawyer who was released from jail in 2014 recounts the torture he suffered at the hands of government authorities in a new memoir in which he reveals how his Christian faith gave him strength to survive.
All around the world national monuments were lit up in the rainbow colours of the LGBT community, as people gathered for vigils marking the tragedy.
Muslim villagers in a Pakistani community are helping to build a church for their Christian neighbors, seeking to show peace and solidarity in a country deeply troubled by religious persecution of minorities.
Pope Francis condemned the easy availability of guns, speaking one day after the Orlando massacre, the deadliest shooting in American history.
A New York City university professor had admitted to using bathrooms at Target and Starbucks for sexual activities to help women get pregnant.
The attacker repeatedly knifed the 42-year-old commander in the stomach before barricading himself inside the house in a Paris suburb.
A British-born Shia Muslim cleric who toured Orlando this year and previously preached that "death is the sentence" for homosexual acts has left Australia, after the government launched an urgent review of his visa.
Authorities in Bangladesh arrested more than 5,000 people over the weekend in connection to Islamic terror, seeking to stand up to the growing wave of attacks against minorities, including Christians and atheists, in the South Asian country.
The mass murderer reportedly pledged allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS) supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before mowing down his victims while screaming "Allahu Akbar!" He was also born to parents from jihadist-infested Afghanistan and previously had a wife from Uzbekistan, another jihadist hotbed.
US Church leaders have expressed their horror at the massacre in Orlando and called on Christians to pray for survivors and their families.
Lang Lang, Yao Ming and Sun Li are to take center stage as Disney officially opens its Shanghai Resort to public on 16 June. About 3000 distinguished guests including government officials are expected at the event.
Omar S Mateen killed 50 people in a packed gay nightclub and wounded 53 others before being killed by police.
Showing increasing signs of desperation, Islamic State (ISIS) militants have resorted to shooting civilians trying to flee the embattled ISIS-held Iraqi city of Fallujah and literally stealing blood from civilians to treat the wounded among them, news sources say.
A bill filed in the California legislature that is intended to protect LGBT people from discrimination will violate the freedom of speech and religion as practiced in as many as 42 Christian colleges in that state.
Iraqi troops attacked Islamic State positions south of Mosul on Sunday as the US-led coalition intensifies its campaign against the militants on multiple fronts across their self-proclaimed caliphate.
The shooter was identified as Omar S. Mateen, a Florida resident who a senior FBI official said might have had leanings toward Islamic State militants.
The shooter was identified as Omar S. Mateen, a Florida resident who a senior FBI official said might have had leanings toward Islamic State militants.
One of the amazing natural wonders we have is the Milky Way. However, a new atlas of light pollution has revealed that we have outshined the skies with the LED lights of our cities, potentially slowly erasing it from our sight.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched a campaign to tell the public to use bathroom consistent with their gender identity, regardless of their biological sex.
A former Stanford University student and star swimmer was sentenced to just six months in jail for his sexual assault of an unconscious woman at a frat party last year, drawing protests from the public for the apparent leniency of the judge.
The governor of Iowa is being targeted by atheist groups for signing a proclamation that encourages the public to join the Iowa 99 County Bible Reading Marathon that will start at the end of the month.
If it approves same-sex unions, the Scottish Episcopal Church may face sanctions from the Anglican Communion, of which it is a member.
Police said unidentified assailants attacked Nitya Ranjan Pandey, 60, while he was walking in the northwestern district of Pabna early on Friday morning.
In its interim guidance update released earlier this week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) advised people living in areas affected by the Zika virus to consider delaying pregnancy to avoid having babies with birth defects, such as deformed heads.
Obama called for Democrats to unite behind Clinton after a protracted battle with Bernie Sanders for the party nomination.
An internet hacking coalition supportive of the Islamic State terrorist organization is calling on lone wolf jihadis to kill nearly 8,000 Americans in order to "take revenge for Muslims."
In a nation where interfaith conflict is too regular an occurrence, Muslims and Christians have joined together to rebuild a church.
A massive platform in the ancient city of Petra, possibly linked to its Christian history, has been discovered using satellite imagery, drones and ground surveys, archeologists announced.
A mother in Lahore, Pakistan, has reportedly burned to death her own teenage daughter for marrying without the family consent.
More than 80,000 Palestinians were barred from entry to Israel on Thursday after four people were killed in a shooting attack in Tel Aviv.
The thousands of women and girls being used by the Islamic State terror group as sex slaves attempt to make themselves look less beautiful by covering their faces in dirt, an escaped Yazidi boy has said, but they still get beaten and raped by the terrorists.
Marwan Barghouti has been behind bars since 2002. He was found guilty by Israel of murder in 2004.
A school district in Michigan has stopped implementing a policy that allows transgender students to use bathrooms according to their gender identity after a father pulled out his three sons from a school over the issue.
A transgender teen who is biologically a male is being questioned by female athletes and their parents after he outshone most of the competitors in a state track meet in Alaska.
Archaeologists in Athens, Greece, have discovered a 1,800-year-old well used as an oracle to communicate with the mythical god Apollo.
Hindu extremists have beaten and tortured 29 Christians who refused to deny their faith in Christ in the village of Katholi in India, reports say.
Much to the surprise of several faithful, Christians hoping to practice their faith in a church in Italy were told by a Catholic charity group to "pray in silence" so as not to disturb Muslim migrants from Africa who were seeking temporary refuge there.
The world has become increasingly violent with deaths from conflict at a 25-year high, terrorist attacks at an all-time high and more people displaced than at any time since World War II, the 2016 Global Peace Index showed on Wednesday.
The world has become increasingly violent with deaths from conflict at a 25-year high, terrorist attacks at an all-time high and more people displaced than at any time since World War II, the 2016 Global Peace Index showed on Wednesday.
A Christian schoolteacher from England who police believe sexually abused as many as 200 children from poor communities in Malaysia and bragged about his exploits online, was given 22 life sentences after admitting to 71 charges of sex abuse against children aged 6 months to 12 years.
Ramadan has started, and in Istanbul there have been readings of the Quran in the ancient Church of Hagia Sophia for the first time in 80 years.
For the first time in two centuries, restoration work has begun on the Tomb of Jesus in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Muslims in Iraq should celebrate Ramadan by "renouncing sectarianism and fundamentalism", the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad has said.
The five children of Ruth and Marius Bodnariu were taken from them last November over allegations that they had spanked them, which is illegal in Norway.
Three militants riding on a motorcycle killed Ananta Gopal Ganguly, 70, by slitting his throat when he was on his way to the temple he served in Jhenaidah district.
Although the turnout turned out to be fewer than what the organisers expected, thousands of professing atheists and agnostics from across America gathered at the National Mall in Washington D.C. on Saturday for their second "Reason Rally."
A businessman in Turkey is running a store that employs children as young as 9 to make uniforms for Islamic State terrorists.
Nineteen women were burned alive inside an iron cage by the Islamic State terror group in the Iraqi city of Mosul after they refused to have sex with the extremists.
A number of recent refugees who converted to Christianity in the United Kingdom are protesting their denial for asylum, after authorities said they could not prove the authenticity of their Christian faith by answering basic Bible questions, such as reciting the 10 Commandments.
Luxembourg makes a large bid to fund the initiative aimed at making asteroid mining an industry. The country has been the first to launch a satellite into space in 1980.
Luxembourg makes a large bid to fund the initiative aimed at making asteroid mining an industry. The country has been the first to launch a satellite into space in 1980.
At least two children drowned while trying to flee the Islamic State stronghold of Fallujah on Saturday, alongside their mother and a man.
Sunil Gomes was attacked at his grocery store after the morning service in his home in the village of Bonpara.
A father and his two teenage sons in the Swedish city of Lidingö were left dumbfounded after the Swedish government allegedly ordered them to leave their home by August this year to make way for asylum seekers from the Middle East.
A civil defence worker said at least 32 people were killed in the rebel-held parts of the city during the air strikes.
Over 45.8 million people are currently enslaved across the globe, a human rights group called The Walk Free Foundation announced last week.
The group called Mercy Chefs has committed to providing professionally prepared meals to the flood victims after receiving a call from the Texas Department of Emergency Management.
Illegal immigrants from Arab countries known to be hotbed of terrorist activities managed to sneak into the US through its Mexican border using a smuggling network, The Washington Times revealed in a report.
At the Monastery of Saint Benedict at the Italian town of Norcia--the birthplace of the revered Christian Saint Benedict--monks are using the production of Belgian-style beers called "Birra Nursia," as a form of prayer.
Islamic State militants have burned to death 19 young Yazidi women in Mosul for refusing to have sex with jihadists, ARA News reports.
Living in constant fear of persecution for their faith, Christians in Southeast Asia will pretend to observe Ramadan this month.
The minority Christian community in northwest Bangladesh is mourning the brutal killing of a local Christian man who served as a gardener at a church, which has been claimed by the Islamic State terror group.
The minority Christian community in northwest Bangladesh is mourning the brutal killing of a local Christian man who served as a gardener at a church, which has been claimed by the Islamic State terror group.
A Utah federal judge has found a company with ties to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church) guilty of contempt of court for using nearly 200 children to work long hours to harvest pecans in a child labour case filed by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Three men from Minnesota were convicted by a federal jury on Friday of conspiring to commit murder in Syria and providing material support to the terrorist Islamic State (ISIS) organisation.
Also on Sunday, a Christian businessman was hacked to death in the northern district of Natore, police official Manirul Islam said. It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack, he said.
Why is the United States taking in mostly Muslim Syrian refugees whose numbers eclipse that of the very few Christians who managed to join the stream of people fleeing their war-torn country?
More women, including young girls, are being raped in Sweden and Germany by Muslim migrants, but news of the attacks does not get published for weeks, even months, according to the Christian website WND.
A satirical website drew rebuke from Christian readers after it came out with an article mocking Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) co-founder Jan Crouch on Tuesday, the day the famous evangelist passed away at the age of 78.
Pope Francis issued an edict Saturday on the protection of minors and vulnerable adults, which says bishops and other senior officials of the Catholic Church who fail to take action against paedophile priests can be removed from office.
Hundreds of pastors are running for office in the United States, hoping to make a change in politics.
Some of us cannot even fathom the idea of getting married during our teenage years, or even during our 20s. In India, however, innocent children are being forced into marriage at an alarming rate.
The upcoming hurricane season is said to be more prominent than last year.
The Syrian army backed by Russian air strikes has opened a major new front against Islamic State, the third big assault on the self-proclaimed caliphate this week after Iraqi forces attempted to storm a city and a Syrian militia advanced with US support.
Former world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, whose record-setting boxing career, flair for showmanship and political stands made him one of the best-known figures of the 20th century, died on Friday aged 74.
The genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks during Wold War I, many of them Christians, has been recognized by the German parliament in a move that prompted Turkey to recall its ambassador in anger.
Seventy-seven members of Boko Haram were forced to surrender by The Nigerian Army after a joint task force of 122 soldiers cleared an area, rescuing 245 hostages of the terrorist group.
A church in China was stopped from holding services last Sunday, and members forced to register their identification cards with authorities.
US-backed Syrian fighters in a major new offensive against Islamic State vowed on Thursday to cut off the last remaining access route to the outside world for the self-proclaimed caliphate.
The holy month for Muslims will start in a few days with fasting expected to last longer during the day because of the summer solstice.
Did Pope Francis know the backgrounds of the three Hollywood celebrities to whom he bestowed the Olive Medal for Peace on Sunday? The question was raised by pro-life Canadian author Patrick B. Craine in a blog post published in LifeSiteNews on Thursday.
President-elect Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has intensified his attack on the Catholic Church as well as the media for their alleged hypocrisy and vested interests.
The UCLA professor who was shot and killed by a former doctoral student on campus Wednesday was described as a devout Christian and a brilliant man.
Scientists have confirmed that bones found in a grave on a building site in Tokyo belong to an Italian missionary who died in prison more than three centuries ago.
The Catholic Archbishop of Samoa has made it clear he does not support a recent call by church leaders to ban Islam from the islands. distanced himself from a call by the Christian churches to ban Islam.
The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church has welcomed as "courageous and inspiring" the forgiveness offered by a 70-year-old Christian grandmother who was stripped and forced to parade naked in the street by a mob of angry Muslims.
Over the past few days, there has been much debate about whether security personnel from the Cincinnati Zoo made the right call when they shot dead a gorilla named Harambe after a three-year-old boy fell into its enclosure.
A Texas pastor involved in building Christian-Muslim dialogue at a high level has warned that American Christians being hateful and unwelcoming toward Muslims is only fueling the persecution of Christians in Muslim-majority countries.
Pakistani women have reacted angrily online to a proposed law to allow husbands to "lightly beat" their wives.
Islamic State insurgents faced major assaults on two fronts in both Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in what could prove to be some of the biggest operations to roll back their caliphate since they proclaimed it in 2014.
A Christian university in Canada is appealing a court ruling banning its accreditation because the school opposes homosexuality.
Tech giants Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube have joined forces and committed to efficiently combat hateful online content and terrorist propaganda as part of a new "code of conduct' formulated and announced Tuesday by the European Union (EU).
Clement Dayile, a pastor at Christ Citadel Church in Mulanje, told the Nyasa Times he had had to abandon his congregation until he felt more secure.
Based a recent report published on the scientific journal PLOS, hundreds of thousands of people living in refugee camps or trapped in conflict zones are already infected with leishmaniasis, which causes very unpleasant open sores and disfiguring skin lesions.
At least 10,000 people in the United Kingdom, mostly homosexual men, have joined the trend of "identifying" with canines, complete with dog-like hoods and leather outfits.
An Iranian Christian prisoner has gone on hunger strike as authorities continue to refuse her essential medical care.
Donald Trump has received an unusual endorsement from North Korea, which on Tuesday hailed the New York billionaire as a "wise politician" and the right choice over "thick-headed Hillary" for US voters in November.
The latest attack against Christians in Minya has left a new bitterness among Copts.
As the Islamic State terrorist group has become notorious for selling captured religious minority women and girls at sex slave markets in Iraq and Syria, militants are now auctioning off Yazidi sex slaves online through social media platforms like Facebook.
Evangelist Franklin Graham is speaking out against proposed legislation in Pakistan that would give men the right to beat their wives, calling it proof that Islam intends to keep women locked "behind a veil of horror."
An Islamic group has filed a complaint for religious discrimination against a Wisconsin company on behalf of 15 Somali Muslims who were terminated for failing to follow break policy.
The Christian grandson of the founder of Hamas has won sanctuary in the United States, after Canada threatened to deport him to the West Bank, according to VICE news.
An eight-foot tall angel has been found by a team working on the restoration of the fourth century church.
A parasitic flesh-eating disease is reportedly breaking out throughout the Middle East, with the Islamic State terror group contributing to the problem with its death and destruction campaigns that create environments where disease can fester and spread.
Forced to live in secret, Christians in Saudi Arabia are being supported in their faith online.
Iranian pilgrims will be barred from participating in the annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage, according to authorities.
Pope Francis met with and praised on Sunday top Hollywood actors George Clooney, Salma Hayek, and Richard Gere for their work toward a Vatican initiative aimed at helping poor communities.
Islamic State is starting to sell captured women on social media as "sex slaves", according to new reports.
If true that Facebook routinely suppressed conservative news in its "trending news" section as alleged in a report earlier this month, could it be possible that the social media giant also excluded faith groups in the news selection process, even inadvertently?
A German pastor stirred strong Christian emotions when he recently held a Muslim funeral inside the Protestant St. Pauli Church in Hamburg, Germany for a 17-year-old man labelled a "terrorist" and a "killer" who fought and died for the Islamic State (ISIS).
Sixteen people including four nuns died when Islamic State terrorists attacked the home in Aden.
About 14,000 have been rescued since Monday amid calm seas, and there have been at least three confirmed instances of boats sinking.
The battle for Falluja is shaping up to be one of the biggest ever fought against Islamic State.
A transgender male veteran has filed a lawsuit against a barbershop in California after it refused to cut his hair.
Migrants rescued from two boats in the Mediterranean this week told humanitarian workers in Italy that they saw another vessel carrying some 400 migrants sink, Save the Children says
U.S. servicemen were seen by a Reuters correspondent near the frontline of an offensive launched on Sunday by Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq that aims to retake a handful of villages from Islamic State east of their Mosul stronghold.
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Williams, is among a group of church leaders calling on the UK to stay as part of the European Union.
For the first time in history, researchers from the United States Defense Department have discovered a strain of bacteria that can resist antibiotics, triggering alarm among top public health officials.
The great Sunni and Shia powers were trying to agree a deal on Iranian citizens visiting Mecca
Islamic State fighters captured territory from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border on Friday and inched closer to a town on a supply route for foreign-backed insurgents fighting the jihadists, a monitoring group said.
Actor Mark Salling, who had a supporting role as a high school athlete-turned-singer in the TV series "Glee," was indicted on Friday on charges of receiving and possessing child pornography, officials said.
A Memorial Day crosses that honoured fallen soldiers in Hiram, Georgia were put back Wednesday by the city council after they were taken down due to a complaint.
Amid the political turmoil in Brazil, evangelical Christians are reportedly being brought to the forefront of the political arena as a new government takes provisional charge of the country.
An international group called Force for Christ is encouraging Christians in the US to open up their homes and adopt orphans this summer.
As many as 20 million Arab children are either out of school or are very much at risk of losing their schooling due to various reasons, according to Christian satellite television station SAT-7 which has a ministry in the Middle East and North Africa.
The President of Egypt has promised justice after Christians homes were torched and an elderly Coptic woman was stripped naked and beaten in the streets of an Egyptian village.
Mars will be at its closest to the Earth in 11 years, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently announced, giving space enthusiasts to have a great view of the fourth planet in the solar system.
Archaeologists have reported on an "extraordinary discovery" in France after finding several man-made circular structures, or rings, they say date back 170,000 years to the time Neanderthals lived in the area.
In an apparent indication that he is gaining more new supporters, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is now neck-and-neck with likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the latest survey after trailing her for months.
A Texas pastor and his three young sons were killed in a tragic road accident that left his wife and daughter in critical condition.
Christian homes were attacked and set on fire in Egypt after rumours circulated that a Christian man had an affair with a Muslim woman, according to the Orthodox Coptic Church.
Christian refugees fleeing ISIS were offered a dramatic escape route when a private jet rescued them from Iraq.
Five people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint between two Syriac Orthodox villages in south-eastern Turkey on Wednesday.
The controversial billionaire has now reached 1,238 delegates, one more than needed, according to Associated Press.
The bishop of Brooklyn in New York is defending undocumented workers in the US and decried any plan of mass deportation, which is being proposed by Republican presidential bet Donald Trump.
New research into the religious beliefs of people in the U.K. has found that for the first time ever, those without a religion outnumber Christians, at least when it comes to the countries of England and Wales.
Plans to build the tallest cross in the English-speaking world in Corpus Christi, Texas, can move on after lawsuits around its construction came to an end.
A Slovak nun and medical doctor has died from her injuries after being shot in Yei, South Sudan.
A prominent Christian leader in Samoa in the South Pacific has called for a ban on Muslims entering the republic.
White evangelical Republicans are the most likely to support Israel, while liberal Democrats are among the few to favour Palestine.
The results were awaited nervously by governments across Europe, where populist anti-immigration parties have surged over the past year.
Ever inventive in its murderous ways, the Islamic State (ISIS) has found yet another method of executing its perceived foes.
Persecution against Christians in China has increased sevenfold since 2008, according to the latest report by China Aid.
Trump has so far had a mixed press from evangelicals in his campaign
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump presented an amiable image of himself to Latino Christian leaders on Friday, promising them that they are "going to like President Trump" after the election in November.
The life of a Zimbabwean pastor is in danger after he accidentally started a subversive protest movement.
Ever inventive in its murderous ways, the Islamic State (ISIS) has found yet another method of executing its perceived foes.
Vietnam has granted early release from prison to one of its most prominent dissidents, the Catholic priest Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Lym.
More and more Christian churches in Germany are reporting increasing interests among Muslim migrants to convert to Christianity.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has banned the sale of its drugs to be used for executions via lethal injection in the U.S. saying it manufactures drugs to save lives.
Ever inventive in its murderous ways, the Islamic State (ISIS) has found yet another method of executing its perceived foes.
How can you determine whether a person is possessed by an evil spirit or is simply suffering from a mentally illness?
Former Florida Senator Bob Graham however believes that the key to unlocking who really engineered the 9/11 attacks lies in documents that have been kept secret by the American government: the redacte: minutes of the congressional joint inquiry on intelligence from before and after the incident.
Former parishioners of a closed church in Scituate, Massachusets have decided to end their 12-year vigil after the U.S. Supreme Court denied their request to hear the case on May 16.
Two plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage in the U.S. last year are accusing the Archdiocese of Louisville in Kentucky of discrimination after it rejected a headstone design they submitted.
The parents of a 12-year-old girl chained their daughter and locked her in a room for several days in their house after she refused to marry a 40-year-old man, according to local press.
The Egyptian military found the personal belongings of passengers and other debris from an EgyptAir jet floating in the Mediterranean, Cairo said on Friday, confirming that the plane had plunged into the sea with 66 people on board.
A security guard at a grocery store in Washington, D.C. is facing charges of simple assault for pushing a transgender woman out of a restroom Wednesday.
From out of the blue, in a sort of "throwback Thursday" feature, the Catholic News Agency (CNA) website came up with an article on the "Miracle of Ocotlán," a phenomenon that took place on a Sunday, Oct. 3, 1847, when more than 2,000 people in Ocotlán, Mexico reportedly saw a clear image of Jesus Christ crucified that appeared in the sky for more than 30 minutes.
The Texas-based church leader is well known for his frequent interventions in public affairs, especially his unswerving support for the Israeli government.
The girl was among 97 women and children held hostage by Boko Haram who were freed on Thursday morning.
Muslims now represent a significant minority. There are 3.3 million Muslims in the US, with the expectation that figure will rise to 8.1 million people by 2050. In the UK there are currently 2.8 million Muslims, and projections suggest that one in ten of all Europeans will be Muslim by 2050.
As much as 80 students aged between 11 and 14 from the Elsa Perea Flores School in Tarapoto town in northern Peru are believed to have been possessed by evil spirits.
A human rights defender who worked with the coptic community has been arrested and charged with belonging to a terrorist group in Egypt, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW).
Most people want to accept refugees into their country and many would even take them into their own homes.
The first of the over 200 Christian schoolgirls from Chibok, Nigeria, kidnapped by terror group Boko Haram nearly two years ago, has been found with a baby and reunited with her family, igniting hope for the parents of the other girls as well.
The first of the over 200 Christian schoolgirls from Chibok, Nigeria, kidnapped by terror group Boko Haram nearly two years ago, has been found with a baby and reunited with her family, igniting hope for the parents of the other girls as well.
EgyptAir Flight MS804 in route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board was confirmed to have crashed by French President Francois Hollande, with officials searching for survivors and suspecting possible terror activity.
White and blue debris from EgyptAir Flight MS804 was found as part of a search for the missing plane, Greek authorities confirmed Thursday.
White and blue debris from EgyptAir Flight MS804 was found as part of a search for the missing plane, Greek authorities confirmed Thursday.
Debris found near the Greek island of Karpathos in the Mediterranean Sea thought to be wreckage from flight MS804 did not come from the plane, the head of the Greek air safety authority said late Thursday.
Churches in Orlando, Florida are helping families from Venezuela who have fled their country due to political and economic crisis.
Lawmakers in South Carolina passed a bill on Tuesday that prohibits abortion after 19 weeks of pregnancy.
Pope Francis decried greedy business practices and prosperity gospel preachers during a mass at the Vatican earlier this week.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Eric Fanning as U.S. Army secretary, becoming the first openly gay head of any military service in the country.
Later Tweets by EgyptAir said the plane, which was travelling at an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,280 metres), disappeared at 02:45 am.
Later Tweets by EgyptAir said the plane, which was travelling at an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,280 metres), disappeared at 02:45 am.
This week is Vegetarian Week so it seems as good a time as any to ask, should we as Christians be vegetarians?
Christians have allowed Muslims to pray in a church hall after their mosque was destroyed in a suspected arson attack in Australia.
One of the missing Chibok girls has been found in Nigeria, the BBC has reported.
Close to 80 Muslims at a refugee camp in Hamburg, Germany, have been baptized into Christianity despite the ongoing physical and sexual abuse that Christian converts face at such camps in the Western country.
Darwin, Australia seems to be dealing with a problem of saltwater crocodiles that becoming more and more vicious and fearless as the days go by. A few days ago, two men who were vacationing from Bendigo, Victoria, went mud crabbing in Leaders Creek, Darwin. Their vacation ended in tragedy for one of the men, who drowned when a group of crocodiles attacked them on their boat, causing it to turn over. The other man, a 72-year old, made use of a spanner and spark plugs to fend off the attacking reptiles after he fell into the water, according to a report in BBC.
Nearly half of IS-controlled territory in Iraq and Syria has been recaptured by allied forces, according to a Pentagon spokesman.
Archaeologists are saying the discovery of a tomb in Turkey will be the biggest and most significant discovery of the year.
Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, a house church leader from the Church of Iran denomination, and his wife, who were re-arrested as part of a series of raids targeting around 10 Christian homes last week, have been released, but three other Christians are still in custody, according to U.K.-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
Water is a commodity we can easily take for granted because it is so available and accessible to us. In some parts of India, however, water is so scarce that some are dying on their way to get this precious liquid.
Presumptive Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has said that he will offer Cabinet positions to the Communist Party of the Philippines, including to its exiled founder Jose Maria Sison. Duterte has also pledged that he will re-introduce the death penalty and that he will order military snipers to shoot and kill suspected criminals in a bid to reduce crime.
An ongoing interactive "polling explorer" by Reuters news agency indicated that as of May 13, 25.9 percent of "born again Christians" will neither vote for Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton, and will vote for a third candidate or abstain from voting instead.
As the world continues to experience extreme heat, new data from NASA reveals that 2016 will be the hottest year yet in history as April has slammed previous records of the hottest month.
Francis also said Europe should better integrate migrants and praised the election of the new Muslim mayor of London as an example of where this had been successful.
The World Health Organisation and the American non-profit group Guttmacher Institute recently released a global report which revealed than one in every four pregnancies ended in abortion from 2010 to 2014.
A new global study shows that abortion rates declined significantly in the developed world but remained largely unchanged in developing regions over the past 25 years. Are these findings a verdict against pro-life laws? Media are wrongly suggesting so, says a scholar.
A Christian woman critically injured in the Easter Sunday terror attack at a park in Lahore, Pakistan, has died nearly a month following the major bomb blast where at least 80 people were killed.
There have been over 300 incidents of Christians being physically or sexually assaulted by Muslims in refugee camps in Germany, while thousands of other Christians are facing persecution in many different ways, a report has warned.
What is likely dismissed of as just a mere product of wild imagination, a recent scientific report said that humans could now be close in creating his own kind from nothing.
More Christians are being targeted and slaughtered by an Islamic terror group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a predominantly Christian nation in Africa.
The political situation in Venezuela has gone from bad to worse. Last Friday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared a state of emergency in the country because of what he called "plots against Venezuela from within Venezuela" and from the outside, particularly from the United States, which he said is out to "subvert him," according to a report in The Inquisitr.
A group of researchers claims that there is a slim possibility of a mega tsunami that will hit Hawaii in the next fifty years.
An ongoing interactive "polling explorer" by Reuters news agency indicated that as of May 13, 25.9 percent of "born again Christians" will neither vote for Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton, and will vote for a third candidate or abstain from voting instead.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is accusing Catholic hospitals in the U.S. of denying women of reproductive health care services due to religious beliefs.
The US believes China will add substantial military infrastructure to artificial islands in the South China Sea.
A Dutch group promoting women doing a medical abortion themselves sent on Saturday its first "abortion drone," carrying pills to kill unborn babies, from Germany to the strictly Roman Catholic country of Poland, and called it a "success," as "two Polish women swallowed the abortion pills."
The Islamic State, otherwise known as ISIS has once again turned to technology to push its agenda, and this time around, they are targeting young children. According to a report in The Guardian, ISIS recently released an app for children to learn basic Arabic. Called "Huroof," it introduces the letters of the Arabic alphabet, and each letter features a word or object that makes use of it.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee is seeking to flesh out his policy proposals.
The Obama administration has issued a "guidance" to all public schools telling them to open their showers, locker rooms, and restrooms to all their transgender students who want to use those facilities that match their gender identity.
Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, a house church leader from the Church of Iran denomination who was acquitted of apostasy in 2012 after being sentenced to death by hanging, was arrested once again, this time along with his wife and a church member, by Iranian authorities on Friday, according to U.K.-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
Christians in the Western world are being called to speak with their pastors this Sunday on the International Day for the Unreached and reflect on what life would be like without Jesus Christ, a reality that close to 2 billion people around the world face today.
A Red Cross aid convoy ca was denied access to a besieged Syrian town that has not received outside supplies for three years.
Climate change is drastically affecting the sizes of some breeds of migratory birds. Red knot shorebirds, which fly about 5,000 kilometers over the Arctic in the summer to find habitat in the tropical areas, are now believed to be shrinking in stature. Making the situation worse for these winged creatures is the fact that these changes can threaten their very own existence.
A Catholic marketing executive at jeweler Tiffany & Co. in New York has filed a lawsuit against the company, saying it discriminated against her for saying that Jews killed Jesus.
An Iranian pastor acquitted of apostasy in September 2012 has been re-arrested today in Iran, along with his wife and a fellow church member, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
Christian anti-Islamic State forces in Iraq are set to benefit from a defence spending bill headed for authorisation by the US Congress and Senate.
Leaders of the Yazidis have asked the Church of England to help their religion be officially recognised.
The United Nations Security Council, the branch that has the power to act and send assistance to persecuted people, is being urged to examine the ongoing genocide of Christians and other minorities being carried out by ISIS.
The international community must not give up hope in finding the missing schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria two years ago, one of the young women who managed to escape has said.
A pro-life organization in Indiana is installing "baby boxes" for mothers who are considering to abandon their newborns.
A Christian couple in Belfast, Northern Ireland who were found guilty of discrimination for refusing to make a gay-themed cake is asking a court to overturn the ruling, saying complying with the cake order would have violated their conscience.
In a remarkable change of tone, presumptive Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte said he plans to visit the Vatican to make a personal apology to Pope Francis for having called him a "son of a whore."
Pope Francis, addressing a conference of nearly 1000 senior nuns from all over the world, told them he is to set up a formal investigation into whether women can be ordained into the first of the three orders of deacon, priest and bishop.
A fatwa has been declared against a young Christian boy in Pakistan after he was accused of blasphemy.
As many as 200 Christians have been killed in recent weeks in bombardments in the war-torn city of Aleppo, relief groups have said, with women and children accounting for half of the victims.
The SUV packed with explosives went off near a beauty salon in a bustling market at rush hour in Sadr City.
Always looking for new and barbaric ways to publicly execute its victims, the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria has displayed its latest method of public execution.
A Chinese pastor jailed for resisting the government-backed cross removal campaign has been released on Monday after eight months in prison.
The Archbishop of Canterbury intervened to defend the President of Nigeria after the British Prime Minister told the Queen his country was "fantastically corrupt".
A 2-year-old boy was shot and killed by a wealthy Muslim landowner in Pakistan who was angry at his father for refusing to work at his home without pay.
The Italian parliament has supported same-sex civil unions today in a vote of confidence for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, despite staunch opposition from Catholic conservatives.
Christians say that the situation has not changed, and the churches remain vulnerable to damage in the plans.
The Evangelical Christian bakers who turned down an order for a pro-gay marriage cake in Belfast are back in court seeking to overturn a decision that found them guilty of sexual discrimination, arguing that they could not support what they believe is "sin."
Aung San Suu Kyi has faced international criticism for not speaking up for the Rohingya people and challenging their treatment.
A Christian convert who refused to stop worshiping Jesus Christ was kidnapped, tortured and left for dead by a group of Hindu radicals in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a Christian persecution monitor has reported.
The Islamic University of Al Azhar, the highest academic center of Sunni Islam, has joined the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in Egypt in the fight against the epidemic of female genital mutilation.
A Chinese bishop who refused to join a government organisation set up to monitor Catholics has died aged 90.
Constant prayer has helped Christians to smuggle in Bibles and training materials for pastors in a North African country where believers face persecution.
A senior judge has been suspended over he told local judges not to grant marriage licenses to gay couples.
Christians in Myanmar—the Southeast Asian country formerly known as Burma—are methodically being pushed out of their own church by a powerful Buddhist monk and his followers.
Gunmen killed eight plainclothes policemen just outside Cairo overnight, the interior ministry said, in an assault claimed by Islamic State.
Pope Francis on Friday lamented a Europe he said had grown "weary" and "entrenched", and urged the continent not to see migrants as criminals.
More than 400, 000 signatures from citizens all over the world were filed recently at the U.N headquarters seeking the declaration of the Security Council on the persecution of Christians and other minorities in Syria and Iraq as genocide.
The Alabama House of Representatives approved two bills Wednesday that would restrict locations of abortion clinics and ban dismemberment abortions.
Members in health care sharing ministries have increased as alternatives to the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare.
A Conservative Christian truck driver refused to help a stranded woman with severe disabilities because she was a Bernie Sanders supporter.
The 88,000 residents who fled a wildfire that has ravaged the Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray in Alberta will not be able to return home anytime soon, officials warned on Thursday, even as the inferno edged slowly south.
Air strikes on a camp housing Syrians uprooted by war killed at least 28 people near the Turkish border on Thursday, a monitoring group said, and fighting raged in parts of northern Syria despite a deal to cease hostilities in the city of Aleppo.
China and India have strongly refuted the findings of a US report that condemned violations of religious freedom around the world.
The age-old adage has always reminded us that prevention is better than cure, but areas in the United States seemed not to have taken heed of this in the face of the possibility that the dangerous Zika virus will spread in the country.
The age-old adage has always reminded us that prevention is better than cure, but areas in the United States seemed not to have taken heed of this in the face of the possibility that the dangerous Zika virus will spread in the country.
Four churches are set to be torn down to make way for a train line in Pakistan, under plans campaigners have said will "belittle Christians".
An American biotechnology firm will soon begin groundbreaking trials to test a new technique to bring clinically dead patients back to life by regenerating their brains, after the company secured ethical approval from state health watchdogs.
Father Tom Uzhunnalil, the Indian priest kidnapped two months ago from a nursing home in Yemen where 16 people were killed, is still alive at the hands of Islamic State radicals, according to rumors, but his fate remains uncertain.
The party began to coalesce around Trump as top rival Ted Cruz bowed out of the race.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has found that religious minorities in Iran, including Christians, continue experiencing severe human rights abuses, closing in on one year on the historical nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and Western nations.
Two American missionaries found murdered on the island of Jamaica on the weekend were both shot and one of them chopped according to a recent autopsy report.
Horrific stories of the ongoing genocide being carried out by ISIS against Christians and other religious minorities were shared at a conference in New York last week, with one account revealing that a couple was sent the body parts of their dead daughters, along with a video of them being raped and tortured.
Three Mideast combatants who once traded lethal blows against each other have now formed a stunningly unlikely alliance against what they consider as a far deadlier menace in their region: the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group.
An Indian Catholic bishop who was kidnapped by unknown abductors, beaten and interrogated about the finances of his diocese has been freed.
United States military officials said they have found a more efficient way of beating the terrorist Islamic State (ISIS): blowing up the money after trailing it.
The bodies of Harold Nichols (53) and Randy Hentzel (48) were found almost 24 hours apart in the Albion Mountain region.
Australia blamed refugee advocates on Tuesday for "encouraging" asylum seekers held in remote camps towards of self-harm.
Bible-translation organization Wycliffe Associates has announced that it has helped a group of people living in Southeast Asia read the Bible in their native tongue for the first time ever, having waited for 182 years to do so.
Bible-translation organization Wycliffe Associates has announced that it has helped a group of people living in Southeast Asia read the Bible in their native tongue for the first time ever, having waited for 182 years to do so.
Bible-translation organization Wycliffe Associates has announced that it has helped a group of people living in Southeast Asia read the Bible in their native tongue for the first time ever, having waited for 182 years to do so.
A new report refers to new and longstanding prisoners of conscience, the rise in numbers of refugees and continued acts of bigotry against Jews and Muslims in Europe.
A bishop in southern India has been released after suffering kidnap and violent assault.
Members of the anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Sunday backed an election manifesto that says Islam is not compatible with the constitution and calls for a ban on minarets and the burqa.
At about noon on Saturday, shocked residents of the Boscobel, St. Mary community on the Caribbean island of Jamaica stumbled upon the bound and lifeless body of missionary Randy Hentzel, 48.
A four-hour fire gutted a historic Serbian Orthodox church in Manhattan, New York City Sunday just hours after Easter celebration was held.
The state of Tennessee have recently embarked in an ambitious program which involves the implantation of contraceptive rods or intrauterine devices (IUDs) in female prison inmates from 15 counties. A medical practitioner and a pro-life advocate, however, warned that this program may be violating ethical standards.
The US Army has reversed a shocking, earlier decision to kick out Sergeant 1st Class Charles Martland, who defended a local commander from Afghanistan believed to have raped a young boy over the course of many days.
The Dutch government is preparing for a potential nuclear breakdown and is stocking up on iodine pills to protect people against radioactivity in case of accidents, according to reports.
As millions of Christians in the United States prepare to observe the National Day of Prayer this week, their brothers and sisters in faith halfway across the globe are also praying hard for their spiritual "revival" and "transformation."
A Malaysian farmer got the surprise of his life last week when he discovered that one of his female goats has given birth to a kid. The little animal was found lifeless, but its appearance was startling: it seemed to have all the features of an ordinary goat, but with a human face.
Islamist militants in the southern Philippines released 10 Indonesian hostages on Sunday, ending a month-long ordeal during which a kidnapped Canadian held by the same group was beheaded after a ransom deadline passed.
Two suicide car bombs claimed by Islamic State killed at least 32 people and wounded 75 others in the center of the southern Iraqi city of Samawa on Sunday, police and medics said.
This week, Orthodox Christians celebrate Holy Week, leading up to Easter on Sunday.
An unprecedented ban in religious speech inside a public educational institution has prompted Grace Christian Life, a registered student group at university, to file a suit against school officials.
Justin Bieber has said he was not comparing himself to God when he posted a picture of himself on Instagram asleep in bed with the caption: "And on the 7th day."
Robert Braxton died when he was shot by Mark Storms after an altercation at Keystone Fellowship Church in Montgomeryville last Sunday morning.
The strike last October destroyed a hospital run by the international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.
Hindu radicals in India doused a Christian pastor and his wife in gasoline in an attempt to force them to convert, a leading Christian human rights group has reported.
The leader of a Chinese church in Henan, whose wife was killed earlier in April after demolition crews buried her alive, has won the rights to the land where the church was destroyed.
A Chinese pastor who has defended churches facing demolition has been arrested and detained along with his wife and son, campaigners say.
Pope Francis has said that for Christians, knowing the Bible is not enough, they must serve and help others or risk ignoring God.
Persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria fear that they are on the "brink of extinction" amid the genocidal actions of the Islamic State terror group.
A much-loved Christian pastor and his wife have been shot dead in Alabama in the US.
Islamist terrorists on the island of Jolo in southern Philippines have beheaded a Canadian hostage and threw his severed head in a plastic bag to be found by police. More than 20 other foreign hostages are still being held captive.
Belgian Minister Koen Geens has said that the number of practising Muslims in Europe will "very soon" surpass those of practising Christians.
Contrary to claims that Islamic State (ISIS) fighters are given attractive pay for rendering dangerous services, new documents released by a scholarly journal reveals they only get a pittance monthly salary of $50 but could be given subsidies if they have more wives, children and even sex slaves.
Christians and other religious minorities are being persecuted in Swedish refugee camps, and provisions must be made for their safety, campaigners say.
ISIS has terror cells operating in England and other European countries that are planning Paris and Brussels-style attacks, the US intelligence chief has warned.
"Come to read. Come to listen. Come to pray." Christians in the U.S. will gather again for the 27th Capitol Bible Reading Marathon that will take place starting on May 1 up to May 5 at the U.S. Capitol West Front.
The U.S Department of Education has been accused of Islamization of American schools after it posted a blog entry urging educators to protect Muslim children from bullying.
A jury has convicted on Monday a woman of fraud for faking cancer to get state funds for her abortion.
Rwandan refugees in Zambia have hidden in a Catholic church after days of violence targeted Rwandan immigrants left five dead.
A Christian woman in Pakistan was brutally attacked and gang-raped by two young Muslim men while her husband was away serving in the army.
Documents regarding salaries and bonuses paid to Islamic State fighters have revealed that radical militants are not only encouraged, but rewarded for keeping more sex slaves, as well as for having more children and wives, who are often forced into marriage.
Islamist militants with alleged ties to the Islamic State (ISIS) beheaded one of their foreign captives—Canadian John Ridsdel—on Monday, the Philippine and Canadian governments confirmed.
Islamist terrorists have hacked a Christian church website with the statement: "We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses and enslave your women by the permission of Allah, the Exalted."
A Christian woman in Pakistan has been kidnapped, forced to marry and convert to Islam, according to a leading human rights lawyer.
Islamist terrorists have beheaded the Canadian hostage John Ridsdel, 68.
City Harvest Church Pastor Kong Hee has said that relief teams helping victims on the ground in Japan are continuing to share the light of Christ amidst the humanitarian tragedy that has stricken the country.
With the growing debate on bathroom laws in the U.S., a New York City pastor is proposing an all-inclusive restroom that would accommodate everyone.
As vacation season heats-up in Europe, the general public particularly those planning to spend their vacation on the beach are being asked to be on the lookout for suspicious-looking people trying to procure necessary items to make chemical, biological or radiological weapons or pose as vendors serving tourists with drinks or beach accessories.
West Virginians are experiencing revival and spiritual awakening that began in schools and have spread to towns.
Democrats in the Iowa Senate frustrated an attempt by Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood on April 22.
A U.S House of Representatives committee has adopted bill that would instill the mandatory training on religious freedom for all American foreign service officers.
The deployment aims to accelerate recent gains against Islamic State.
A pastor and his wife have been doused in petrol during an attack on their church in India, Christian Solidarity Worldwide reports.
Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of a 16th century cross that was erected in the US by a Spanish conquistador.
Five Christian girls have been kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam just this month, according to a human rights group that monitors ongoing abuses of religious minorities in Pakistan.
Islamic State said it was behind the death of Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, 58.
The daughter of a Bengali professor who was killed by an Islamic extremist for allegedly being an atheist said her father believed in God.
Orthodox Christians around the world celebrated Palm Sunday yesterday, in remembrance of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey.
A Chinese Christian group has filed a civil lawsuit over an open air urinal in Dolores Park in San Francisco, calling it a violation of privacy and a cause of embarrassment for women as well as any disabled people who might need to use the facilities.
ISIS has reportedly killed 45 of its soldiers by locking them in a freezer after they attempted to flee from a battle in Iraq.
Up to 500 refugees have died when an overcrowded ship capsized in the Mediterranean near Libya last week, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Roman Catholic universities are expected to inculcate among its students the teachings of Jesus Christ, such as the protection of human life. A well-known university in Washington D.C. ran by Jesuit priests, however, recently allowed the president of Planned Parenthood in the campus to speak about killing babies.
An evangelical community in Mexico is now suffering from lack of potable water after local authorities cut off their supply for failing to pay their contribution for the holding of a Roman Catholic fiesta in honour of a Catholic saint.
A century after her forebears fled massacres in Turkey for Armenia, Alla has gone the other way, hoping to win Turkish citizenship after leaving her impoverished homeland.
China must be on guard against foreign infiltration through religion and stop "extremists" spreading their ideology, President Xi Jinping told a top-level meeting on managing religion, state media reported on Sunday.
A House committee has released documents to show that Planned Parenthood profited in exchange for selling foetal organs and tissue as Iowa moved to defund the abortion provider.
The opposition declared a "pause" in the talks this week because of a surge in fighting.
One and a half years after a young Pakistani Christian couple were tortured and burnt alive in a brick kiln after being accused of blasphemy, a court has granted bail to the prime suspect in the case, which had caused national outrage.
Archaeologists say a recent discovery of an ancient burial site in Peru provides insight into belief practices dating back 4,500 years.
The Christian family whose five children were seized by Norwegian child services is denying a recent report that they are going to be reunited with their children.
The Christian family whose five children were seized by Norwegian child services is denying a recent report that they are going to be reunited with their children.
The controversial anti-LGBT laws in two states in the U.S. prompted the UK government to issue a travel warning.
The Bishop of Eisenstadt, Aegidius Zsifkokvics, is refusing permission for an anti-migrant fence on Church land.
Crowds across Britain have gathered on Thursday to celebrate the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, the oldest monarch in the world, who has often spoken out about her strong Christian faith and how central following Jesus Christ is in her life.
Christian relief groups are sending teams to help with the immediate needs of the victims of the earthquake disaster in Ecuador, which has killed at least 570 people so far, and are urging fellow believers to pray and consider helping with funds.
Christian relief groups are sending teams to help with the immediate needs of the victims of the earthquake disaster in Ecuador, which has killed at least 570 people so far, and are urging fellow believers to pray and consider helping with funds.
Despite mounting persecution, Christianity is thriving in India as hundreds of Hindus and tribal animists are embracing Jesus Christ, the Gospel Herald reports.
In what could be his most adorable photo unveiled yet, Prince George took the attention of the world as he posed for a new royal portrait alongside the Queen and her successors.
Various U.S faith-based groups have come together to provide relief assistance on the ground in northwest Ecuador following the 7.8 magnitide earthqua?e that took the lives of more that 500 people.
Intelligence agencies have warned that the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists are plotting to carry out attacks on tourists at beach resorts across Europe this summer, Fox News reports.
ISIS can be eradicated in Syria and Iraq, hopefully by the end of the year, according to French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Drian.
Television host Bill Maher is calling for taxes for religion, equating it to alcohol and cigarettes.
Syrian peace talks appeared all but doomed on Tuesday after air strikes killed about 40 people in a crowded vegetable market.
Houston faces colossal calamity after heavy rainfall swamped the area on Monday morning. According to an update from ABC News, at least seven people are reported dead from the flash flood with the last count found in the vehicle at the drained underpass of Westpark Toll Road at Interstate 610. All of the casualties were found in their vehicles, indicating that they died of drowning while trying to drive their cars in the flooded street.
The United Nations Security Council has issued a statement addressing the recent Kabul attack.
Jordan Brown claims he noticed on his way home that an employee had added an offensive word to the lettering.
The Taliban have claimed responsibility for a huge explosion in the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday morning.
The Turkish government has seized the last remaining Christian churches in the war-torn southeastern city of Diyarbakir and has declared them as state property.
The Turkish government has seized the last remaining Christian churches in the war-torn southeastern city of Diyarbakir and has declared them as state property.
A 60-year-old Christian woman was publicly caned at the Banda Aceh province of Indonesia after it was found that she was violating sharia law, regulations which specifically applied only to Muslims until bylaws were passed in the country late last year, which expanded its coverage to non-Muslims.
The death toll has climbed to more than 400 in the poor South American country.
A pair of suspected Hindu radicals attacked and beat a pastor and his pregnant wife at a church in Chhattisgarh, India, and then set a Bible and other articles inside the church on fire.
After two devastating quakes in Japan, another one hits Ecuador, with the death toll increasing each day since Sunday.
The nuns from the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena-Iraq (Dominican Sisters) gave a gripping account of how they escaped from the tyranny of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq, an ordeal that led to the death of 23 sisters over the past 18 months, according to the National Catholic Reporter.
Fr Dominic Howarth described the Calais jungle as a "searingly sad" place following the bulldozing of two-thirds of it by French authorities.
If Jesus Christ lived in the modern times where terrorism is a real threat, would he have allowed the killing of Islamic State (ISIS) militants? For a Christian militia fighter who has killed several members of the terror group, the answer is yes.
To exert pressure on the Norwegian government, thousands of activists protests around the world, with the main call of the Bodnariu children being returned to their mother and father.
Traumatised Ecuadoreans slept amid rubble while rescuers dug for survivors.
Islamic State radicals have released a new propaganda video that shows the graphic execution of a man believed to be an Iraqi spy, this time by forcing the man to wear an explosive necklace.
At least 400 refugees are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after their boats capsized on the way to Europe.
At least 400 refugees are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after their boats capsized on the way to Europe.
An explosion aboard a bus in Jerusalem caused around 20 casualties on Monday, Israeli media said, and police said it may have been a militant attack or the result of a fire from other causes.
In order to encourage unified action against the plight of Christian women throughout the world, the participants of the recent Marcham Conference issued a letter to the global church asking it to acknowledge the extent and severity of violence against Christian women – especially in communities under pressure for their faith.
A senior ISIS figher was killed in a helicopter raid in Iraq on Monday, according to the Kurdish regional security council.
Japan is hit by two powerful quakes in a span of three days, leaving several people dead and substantial damage in infrastructure.
Sanders and the Pope met briefly on Saturday morning at the Vatican guest house where Francis lives.
Authorities ordered nearly a quarter of a million people from their homes amid fears of further quakes.
The earthquake injured hundreds, ravaged coastal towns and sent residents fleeing for higher ground in Ecuador on Saturday night.
Saudi Arabia has warned that it will sell up to $750 billion worth of U.S. assets held by the oil-rich Kingdom if the U.S. Congress passes a bill that would allow victims of the September 11, 2001, terror attack to sue the Saudi Arabia government.
After his five-hour visit to Greece, Pope Francis took three families of Syrian Muslim refugees, including six children, back to Rome aboard the papal plane on Saturday.
The women was killed by extremists when she refused to renounce her faith, Francis said.
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed a gun rights bill on Friday allowing churches to designate members to carry firearms.
The earthquake struck barely a day after a quake killed nine people in the same region.
The Islamic State has released a new propaganda video that shows militants executing civilians who are begging and crawling for their lives, almost at the same time as President Obama claimed that the extremists are losing ground.
The United States has started arming Kurdish Peshmerga forces with two army brigades-worth of equipment to combat the Islamic State (ISIS) and regain Mosul from the terror group, according to news reports.
Father Bill Edebohls, of Melbourne Australia, called for paedophile priests to be treated with "justice drenched in mercy".
Nigeria-based Islamic terror group Boko Haram used four children in suicide attacks in 2014 -- and 44 in 2015, according to a new report from UNICEF.
The sponsor of the bill immediately filed to override the veto. Each house must vote against the veto by a majority for the bill now to go through.
A German pastor is reportedly being persecuted even by fellow pastors for preaching boldly about Jesus Christ and "refusing to bend a knee to political correctness."
The plan to build a replica of the arc of the Temple of Baal in New York City and London has been abandoned and instead, the Arch of Triumph of Palmyra will rise.
ISIS have been defeated in the key Iraqi town of Hit, officials said on Thursday.
Christian groups and other religious organisations are strongly opposing the blanket removal of Bibles from several U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical clinics and at least one Air Force base.
Strong aftershocks continued to shake the area around the city of Kumamoto today, the morning after it was hit by the initial 6.0 magnitude quake.
Islamic State militants have murdered Muslims who helped Christians escape the brutal terror group in the besieged Syrian town of al-Qaryatain.
A church has been burned down in southern Chile in the latest attack from the Mapuche indigenous people, who are campaigning to reclaim ancestral lands, according to authorities.
Grylls is among the prominent evangelical Christians who feature in the new Alpha film series to go with the phenomenally successful Alpha programme for people new to church and Christianity.
A Protestant church in Cuba has been demolished under authorisation from the government.
The militant Islamic group Boko Haram has released a video purporting to show 15 of the schoolgirls kidnapped two years ago in Chibok, northern Nigeria.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division, recently junked a demand from the non-profit organisation American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that Catholic medical facilities be required to perform abortion procedures.
In the largest gathering of Muslim leaders, 30 heads of states are meeting in Istanbul, Turkey for a five-day conference this week to call for a new peace process to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
After figuring in a controversial crowdsourcing drive to buy a $65 million Gulfstream G650 jet last year, televangelist and World Changers Church International founder Creflo Dollar is seeking to bring his ministry to Scotland, but he will not be welcomed by local churches in Scotland.
Telstra, the largest telecommunication company in Australia, has dropped its public support for legalizing gay marriage in the country, sparking a cultural row and claims the Catholic Church influenced its decision.
Church leaders are trying to recruit more black and ethnic minority people to become clergy in the Church of England in the run-up to Vocations Sunday next Sunday.
Syrian refugees will arrive in the United States at an average of 358 per week until September under a plan of the Obama administration to speed up the process and bring a total of 10,000 refugees this year.
Leading Assyrian Christian organizations have collectively penned an open letter to the five remaining U.S. presidential candidates, urging them to fight against radical terror groups and to recognize the past genocide that Christians have suffered under the Ottoman Empire.
Muslims helping Christians to escape from the besieged Syrian city of al-Qaryatain were murdered when they were discovered by jihadists.
Christians worldwide are being asked to pray for the people of Mindanao in southern Philippines amid the ongoing military campaign to flush out a large group of Muslim militants with suspected links to the Islamic State (ISIS).
Donald Trump confused his endorsement from evangelical leaders on Tuesday, mistakenly claiming support from Bob Vander Plaats.
A painting found after more than 150 years of lying forgotten in an attic has been attributed to the Italian baroque master Caravaggio.
The French Catholic Church is to set up a new commission to advise bishops and help them handle cases of child sex abuses by priests.
The Church Commissioners have won widespread support for a move to put pressure on energy giant ExxonMobil to disclose the impact of climate change policy on its business.
Christians in North Carolina have joined hundreds of other residents who staged a rally to support the decision of their governor to overturn an ordinance that would have allowed transgender individuals to use bathrooms of the opposite sex.
A Christian radio station has launched an app for refugees to provide biblical teaching and encouragement.
Iraqi Christian militia fighters who have been battling the Islamic State terror group, have said that although Jesus called on people to turn the other cheek, he also suggested buying a sword when the time calls for it.
Christian and Muslims are going into business together to provide accommodation for refugees in Sweden.
Police in Nigeria have arrested four members of a gang who allegedly confessed to brutally murdering a pastor they were holding hostage because he told them to repent of their sins.
Religious and human rights groups are applauding a European court decision that ruled governments must grant a fair evaluation of Christian converts before they could be denied asylum and sent back to Iran.
The family of a Canadian megachurch pastor who has been sentenced to lifetime of hard labor in North Korea after being accused of committing crimes against the Communist Kim regime fears his health might be failing him.
Parts of the Bible from the Old Testament could have been written earlier than scholars previously thought, a discovery relating to a handwriting analysis of a text on pottery shards has suggested.
Popular televangelist and founder of World Changers Church International, Creflo Dollar, has been branded as "blasphemous" and declared a persona non grata in Glasgow by high profile moderator of the Free Church of Scotland the Rev. David Robertson.
Dr. Robert Winfree knows a thing or two about violent conflict. Before he became the pastor of the New Deliverance Tabernacle, he served time in prison in his 20s.
Sri Lanka has a turbulent history but Christians are bearing the brunt of increased levels of religious persecution on the tropical island.
The Bible may have been written earlier than previously thought, according to new analysis of ancient fragments of pottery found in Israel.
Rolando del Torchio, an Italian man who was formerly a missionary priest with the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, was found in southern Philippines.
Pope Francis has called for the release of hostages in conflict zones in prayers conducted yesterday at the Vatican.
According to a recent study, there no longer is a presence of Neanderthal DNA on Y chromosomes of modern-day humans.
The Islamic State terror group killed 21 Christians in the Syrian town of al-Qaryatain after taking control of the city last year, a local clergy member has said.
The Bangladeshi wing of the Islamic terrorist group al Qaeda reportedly took responsibility for the latest in a series of murders of atheist writers and bloggers.
The head of the 77 million-member Anglican Communion says he accepts the news that his biological father was not who he thought he was, stating that his ultimate identity is in Christ.
The families of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria, are struggling for survival as the two year anniversary of the abduction looms.
Pope Francis and other Catholic bishops are praying for the release of Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil, an Indian priest thought to have been crucified by the Islamic State last month, in hope that radicals will be moved to change their ways.
Christians are fearful that they might lose six of these ancient churches recently taken over by the Turkish government.
A Michigan-based ministry is sending tons of Bibles and Christian books to Hong Kong in the hope of increasing the number of believers in the faith.
Philippine soldiers battled a group of about 120 Muslim rebels linked to Islamic State in a ten-hour assault on a southern island that killed 23 people, an army spokesman said on Sunday.
A British Christian therapist who was suspended for giving a Muslim colleague a religious book, lost in court once more when attempting to appeal a lower court decision.
This mystery surrounding Area 51 finally has the chance of being unravelled, if former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton will be elected to the White House.
Were if not for her strong and steadfast faith in Jesus Christ, this 15-year-old Christian girl from Pakistan says she would not be alive today to describe the hellish experience she underwent as a captive of the Islamic State (ISIS).
At least 500 people are reported to have been murdered in new attacks by Fulani herders in more than 10 villages in northern Nigeria and the villages remain under siege.
Three Christian traditions have put aside their theological differences and partnered to save the endangered holy place where Jesus is believed to have been crucified, buried, and resurrected, in Jerusalem.
Ten million people are in severe need of food in Ethiopia, as the country faces the worst drought in 50 years. This number is likely to rise to 15 million in the coming months unless action is taken.
The Iranian pastor who was freed from prison earlier this year has pleaded for the release of another imprisoned Christian, Maryam Naghash Zargaran, known as Nasim.
The residents of the ISIS-controlled city Fallujah, Iraq, have been forced to eat soup made from grass, as the besieged city starves without aid.
A few more days before the euthanisia bill could be presented by the Liberal government, a new Angus Reid poll shows a majority of Canadians opposed to doctors or hospitals killing people with severe psychological suffering but no terminal illness, with an overwhelming percentage of these respondents in the older bracket.
A Bangladeshi law student who criticised Islamism on his Facebook account has been attacked with machetes and killed, police said, the latest in a series of murders of secular activists and bloggers by suspected Islamist militants.
The Romanian Pentecostal parents of five children who were seized by Norwegian child services last November due to spanking allegations have finally regained custody of their infant son following a court ruling.
Blogger Samuel D. James thinks the lost art of disagreement practiced by our forefathers could well serve this generation.
France has abandoned its attempt to appoint a devout gay Catholic as its ambassador to the Holy See in Rome and this week instead appointed Laurent Stefanini as ambassador to Unesco.
The Bible can look after itself without being the official book of Tennessee or anywhere else. It will carry on being read, sung, wrestled with, preached, discussed, debated and absorbed well into the future.
Iran may have taken the 9th spot in the 2016 Watch List of most severe persecutors of Christians but this has not deterred thousands to become Christians and join underground house churches, despite being illegal in the country.
Starting July, it will be illegal for babies to be aborted on the basis of having Down Syndrome after Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law a bill protecting unborn children with the genetic condition.
The European Burma Network have called the new government to address the Rohingya crisis that has left 150,000 people displaced.
A female NHS therapist who was disciplined after she gave a Christian book to a Muslim colleague has lost her appeal.
More and more testimonies are emerging about how false prophet and convicted child-sex offender Warren Jeffs abused his followers in the group he formed called the "Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ."
Komal, 15, was abducted from her home in Pakistan, raped and forcibly converted from Christianity to Islam. She suffered unrelenting abuse and was forced to marry one of her rapists, who acted as her pimp and she fell pregnant.
A pastor in Hong Kong has been prosecuted in mainland China for printing Christian books and raising money, according to UCA News.
The Church of England is in line to receive more than £60 million from a Royal Bank of Scotland sell-off of more than 300 branches.
The terror group has also arrested a woman who went on local television to describe deteriorating conditions, and begged for someone to help save residents.
A Chinese pastor who was detained after he opposed the removal of crosses from churches in Zhejiang has been released.
Open Doors USA, a persecution watchdog group, has warned that world governments simply condemning attacks against Christians, such as the one on Easter Sunday in Pakistan where 73 people were killed, is not enough to save lives.
Christians and even a Muslim group welcomed a recent landmark ruling by a High Court in Malaysia that recognised that freedom of religion is a fundamental human right. The court struck down a decades-long government policy that had made it tough for Christian converts to renounce their former Islamic faith without the consent of an Islamic court.
A Christian minister has come under fire after performing baptism on children on a beach despite extreme winds and strong waves.
A group of children in Surrey, London have become instant heroes after news emerged about their efforts of helping a police chopper track down two burglars on Good Friday, March 25.
The bones of a saint have been discovered among the ruins of an ancient monastery in the Christian town of al-Qaryatain, liberated from ISIS control on Sunday.
The University of Oxford, the oldest such institution in the English-speaking world dating back to 1096, will no longer require its undergraduate theology students to enroll in a course tackling Christianity after their first year.
The skull and bones of a Christian saint believed to have been martyred in 284 AD for refusing to deny his faith have been uncovered in the Syrian town of Qaryatain, which was recently recaptured from the control of the Islamic State terror group.
The Archaeological Council of Israel has warned that a planned egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall would cause major damage to the world heritage site.
An ancient Greek symbol for Christ was reportedly discovered at the ruins of a Byzantine church in Gaza dating back from around 1,500 years ago, the Palestinian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry revealed Monday.
A South African preacher is claiming that he was able to go to heaven and take pictures of paradise but his story is not being received in the way that he expects. In fact, he is being ridiculed online for trying to sell photos of heaven.
The government of China appears to be shifting its approach toward Christians, and this change could prove highly problematic in the years to come for the Chinese church.
Syrian and allied forces backed by Russian air strikes drove Islamic State militants out of the Christian town of al Qaryatain on Sunday.
The Roman Catholic Church in Poland is coming out in support of a proposed law that would increase regulations on abortion to protect life from conception to death.
Poland has seen demonstrations by many thousands of people after the ruling Law and Justice party disclosed it is to bring abortion law into line with Catholic Church teachings.
More than 100 children have vanished from the Calais refugee camp according to a recent census. Charities have expressed shock and concern, particularly following evidence of the abuse and rape of boys in the camp.
A leading Muslim human rights lawyer has received death threats after he called for unity among members of his own faith.
Two thirds of people in Scotland with a religious background never or practically never go to services, according to new research.
How did Christianity spread across London, the capital city of the United Kingdom? Well, the answer to this question that has baffled historians for centuries now lies on an ancient pottery fragment.
Austria imposed border restrictions in February, causing a domino effect in Europe that left thousands of people - many fleeing war and violence in Syria and other countries - stranded in Greece.
Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies inside Azerbaijan but is controlled by ethnic Armenians, has run its own affairs with heavy military and financial backing from Armenia since a separatist war ended in 1994.
Oxford University is deviating from its 800-year-old tradition to remain relevant to "the dramatic change" in the U.K., by allowing its undergraduate theology students to skip studying Christianity after the first year of their degree, and choose instead subjects like "Feminist Approaches to Theology and Religion" and "Buddhism in Space and Time."
Hundreds of migrants and refugees on the island of Chios tore through a razor wire fence surrounding their holding center and set off for the port in protest against planned deportation, police said. Police did not immediately intervene.
Consecrated to a Mesopotamian god, the Temple of Bel later served as a Christian church and a mosque.
The proposal is among the military options being prepared for President Barack Obama, who is also weighing an increase in the number of American troops in Iraq. A White House spokeswoman declined comment.
Even as the world comes to terms with the deadly attacks in Brussels by the Islamic State (ISIS), a fresh attack on Easter Sunday in Pakistan claimed by the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar terror group took the lives of 70 Christians who were attending the celebration. Rev. Franklin Graham has aired his outrage on his Facebook page and condemned the attacks.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal vetoed a religious liberty bill that would prevent the state government from punishing churches, pastors and faith based organisations for refusing to perform same sex marriage or declining service to those who violate their sincerely held religious belief.
Practising Christians are the most likely among faith communities in England to support the Eurosceptic "Brexit" position.