Four unregistered churches were recently shut down in China's north-central Gansu province for allegedly violating the country's Religious Affairs Regulations.

The Prince of Wales has offered to support Christians who are persecuted around the world and stressed that "they are not forgotten."

A Church of Ireland bishop said that he will vote to repeal the Constitutional amendment that protects the life of the unborn child in the upcoming referendum because the language is "incorrigibly flawed."

The Knights of Columbus has announced that it will be donating more than $1 million this Holy Week to help rebuild the homes of persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria.

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has acquitted 20 men who were suspected of lynching and burning a Christian couple alive in a brick kiln in 2014.

A new report has found that the U.K. is one of the several countries in Europe with the highest proportion of young people who are not religiously affiliated.

A church in northern Algeria has been shut down by the government earlier this month as part of the crackdown on non-Muslim places of worship.

Monsignor Dario Vigano, who serves as the head of Vatican Secretariat for Communication, has resigned from his post on Wednesday, a week after it was revealed that a photo of a private letter from retired Pope Benedict XVI was digitally altered and sent out to the media.

Boko Haram has freed 104 out of 110 girls who were abducted from a school in Yobe State last month, but the insurgents have not released a Christian student who reportedly refused to renounce her faith.

Richard Dawkins has expressed plans to make his bestselling book, "The God Delusion," available for free in Islamic countries due to the surge of illegal downloads of the book in Middle Eastern countries.

A Polish archbishop has chastised a priest for praying for the quick death of Pope Francis in his homily last month in an apparent expression of his disagreement with the pontiff's views on immigration, divorce and Islam.