Authorities in China detained members of several house churches in Xinjiang and even confined a pastor's entire family to their home as part of the state's ongoing religious persecution.
An Islamic militant group killed nine as they attacked three Christian communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo on July 5.
Two men who stormed a Catholic church in France filmed themselves as they preached in Arabic around the altar and then murdered an 85-year-old priest, said a nun who escaped.
Civil rights groups accuse President Muhhamadu Buhari of running an Islamist government and aiding the rising sectarian attacks against Nigerian Christians.
Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria urged Egyptian leaders to uphold national unity in the light of increased sectarian attacks targeting the religious minority of Coptic Christians.
A Muslim medical doctor from Pakistan tended to a dying Christian man at the hospital, and he got harassed and received death threats because of it.
Materials and goods that bear a symbol that looks like the Christian cross are no longer allowed in North Korea.
A nonprofit organization that promotes civil liberties in Nigeria warned that bloodshed could ensue over the alleged state supported persecution of Christians.
A priest in his mid-80s was killed with a knife and another hostage seriously wounded on Tuesday in an attack on a church in northern France carried out by assailants linked to Islamic State.
The attacks against Christians in Egypt is intensifying at an alarming rate, and the government appears to provide insufficient response to address the matter, a human rights group said.
Patriarch Ignatius Youssef III Younan from the Syriac Catholic Church of Antioch, said living conditions in Syria and Iraq have gone from "bad to worse," and he urged US bishops to fight for human rights and religious freedom in Syria.
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.