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 Islamic State militants executed and crucified a civilian man in Aleppo on Thursday after accusing him of apostasy, according to activists and eyewitnesses.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi praised the wisdom and patriotism of the country's highly persecuted Coptic Christian minorities as he met with Coptic Pope Tawadros II.
A French imam renounced the two young men responsible for the Catholic Church attack in Normandy as not belonging to the same civilization and humanity with everyone else.
Pope Francis urged the young people during World Youth Day in Krakow, Poland not to be remote or indifferent as many become victims of terrorism and crimes of hatred.
LANCASTER, Pa. — Four years in the making, the production “David” opened at Sight & Sound Theatres this year and explores the journey of an unassuming shepherd boy who became a king.
The Presbyterian Church in America has voted to leave the National Association of Evangelicals due to the ...
Secular intolerance has a “chilling effect” on Christians who are having to practice “various forms of self-censorship” as they're finding it difficult to express their faith freely in society, according to a new report detailing accounts from four countries.
Gunmen suspected to be Islamic Fulani herdsmen barged into a Catholic Church in southwestern Nigeria, opened fire and detonated explosives while the congregation was celebrating Mass on Pentecost Sunday, killing at least 50 worshipers, including women and children. It's feared that some Christians were also abducted after the attack.
For more than 1,500 days, Nigerian Christian teenager Leah Sharibu has been held captive by the Boko Haram terrorist group as Christians continue to be the target of attacks in the West African nation.