Three priests ordained in the Iraqi refugee camp of Erbil gives hope to thousands of Christians to stay in the war-torn country despite threats of imminent danger.
Turkish authorities removed from office more than 2,500 religious staff in a continuing hunt against supporters of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen, allegedly the mastermind behind the blotched coup last month.
A Middle Eastern Christian woman tells Western Christians not to pray for persecution's end but for God to endow them with the spirit to stand as God's witnesses.
Archbishop Socrates Villegas likened the state of massive killings that resulted from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs to that of a "killing fields."
China draws criticism for sentencing in highly suspect trials two house church leaders and one lawyer-activist detained from last year's nationwide political crackdown.
A Christian militant group in Nigeria responded to the latest threats made by Boko Haram extremists against Christians by vowing to take on Muslims in return.
An American Muslim group expressed their public disavowal of the Islamic State terrorist group through a billboard hoisted on a highway in Chicago for everyone to see.
The Islamic State terrorist group reportedly trains more than a thousand captive Yazidi children to become jihadis and suicide bombers, according to a report.
It's a Muslim woman who's devoted herself to helping Iraqi Christians and other religious minorities made victims by the conflict in Middle East, says the vicar of Baghdad.
Young Christian converts in eastern Uganda suffer physical injuries and were consequently disowned by their parents after turning to Christ.
Militants linked to Islamic State have released photos that purport to show weapons and equipment that belonged to American soldiers and were captured by the group in eastern Afghanistan.
The leaders of France's two main Protestant umbrella organizations have agreed to create a standing forum for dialogue and cooperation, following a two-day meeting both described as unprecedented. Delegations from the executive boards of the Protestant Federation of France, known by its French initials FPF, and the National Council of Evangelicals in France, or CNEF, met Sept. 3-4 at the Domaine du Lazaret in Sète.
Evangelicals in the United Kingdom are “younger, more ethnically diverse, and more likely to be male than the wider population,” according to a new report from the Evangelical Alliance UK. “Adults under 35 are the age group most likely to identify as Evangelical and to hold Evangelical beliefs,” the report reads. “Approximately a third of the most committed Evangelicals come from ethnically diverse backgrounds, while an estimated 60% of Evangelicals are male.”
President Donald Trump has nominated Cissie Graham Lynch to serve as U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, a State Department position focused on promoting religious liberty abroad. The White House announced that the nomination of Jane Lynch, better known as Cissie Graham Lynch, had been sent to the Senate for consideration.
American Bible Society research suggests that Christians who are more active in their faith and Bible reading are less likely to struggle with forgiving themselves and others. Overall, 29% of respondents said “It is really hard for me to accept myself once I’ve messed up” was “true of me,” while 56% said it was “not true of me.”
The Archbishop of Canterbury has withdrawn an interfaith award given to Pakistani Muslim cleric Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi after past remarks praising Osama bin Laden resurfaced, raising questions in Pakistan about why he was recommended for the honor by Church of Pakistan’s Moderator Bishop Azad Marshall.