A package of anti-terror laws has taken effect in Russia last week. Authored to protect Russia's information sovereignty, the law, however, restricts the freedom of evangelization for all religions, excluding Russian Orthodox, unless in places of worship.
Church leaders argue whether the surviving Chaldean Christians should remain or abandon their ancestral grounds in the face of serious extinction by the Islamic State terrorist group.
The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) urged to scale up humanitarian support as 134 Nigerian children die daily from acute malnutrition after Boko Haram unleashed its violence.
Gunmen attacked a busy mall in the German city of Munich on Friday evening, killing at least eight people and sending shoppers running for their lives from what police said was a terrorist attack.
Teens are better off having abortions than giving birth to their babies, a new study says, but other studies disagree.
Vietnam puts behind bars Christian leaders and sometimes punishes an errant prisoner by food poisoning, said an Evangelical leader.
An organization that supports women's bishops asked the Church of England to once and for all prevent a protester from expressing "discrimination" against the ordination of female bishops.
The Anglican community extended assistance for thousands of those affected in the devastated Juba region of South Sudan that recently escalated in its state of unrest.
A group of Catholics charged the official Catholic Church in India for harboring caste discrimination as it remained silent over the kidnapping of its low-caste bishop.
Saudi Arabia perceived "Pokémon" game cards as un-Islamic and revived its Fatwa against it; but not yet on its latest transformation, "Pokémon GO."
China will have the largest population of Christians by 2030, based on a new statistical forecast. An expert in religious trends for OMF International has now said that despite persecution in their homeland, Christians in China are increasing dramatically.
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.