The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported Thursday that the Islamic State militants captured up to 3,000 Iraqi villagers who were trying to escape and executed 12 of them.
Rev. Franklin Graham announced that the anticipated World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians would no longer take place in Moscow next year after Russia passed its repressive law.
A Zimbabwean court dismissed the charges hurled against a Baptist pastor who used social media to incite the most widespread protest against the autocratic regime of President Robert Mugabe.
Israel accused U.S.-based Christian relief group World Vision's Gaza representative on Thursday of funneling millions of dollars in aid money to Hamas, charges that the Islamist militant group denied and the charity voiced scepticism over.
Iran charged and released a prominent pastor but told him to raise a bond or face imprisonment again. Meanwhile a jailed Christian woman ends her second hunger strike.
Chinese activist Wang Yu's freedom still remains suspect even after her release on bail Monday when a video that captured her confessing to her alleged crimes circulated online.
The Islamic State slammed Pope Francis for undermining the extremists' war against Christians as "not a war of religions" and then vowed to kill all unbelievers just as Allah ordered.
A Christian convert who suffered torture and thrown to dogs said miseducation and the silence of moderate Muslims, not the Islamic State, should be blamed for radical terrorism.
Pope Francis warned against condemning the Islamic faith as violent because even the Catholic religion has its share of violent people.
Leading figures of the Islamic faith condemned the acts of the Islamic State terrorist group after attacking a Catholic church in Normandy, France and killing an 85-year-old priest.
Hundreds of young Christians scampered away for safety after a gun battle puts an abrupt end to a three-day Christian youth festival in South Sudan.
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.