A new report jointly released by four nongovernment organizations says that minorities in Iraq, including Christians, could soon disappear because of ISIS' continuing assault and advance in the area after Mosul fell in 2014.
ISIS is using a phone app to advertise women and girls as young as 12 years old "for sale."
Christians in the Middle East fear that the Islamic State group is set to shift strategy to neighboring states as it loses ground in Iraq and Syria.
The Islamic State militants executed seven of its own fighters who tried to abandon the battlefield by boiling them alive Monday, July 4.
Asian Human Rights Commission reported increased incidences of Christian persecution in Pakistan and condemned the police for doing little to prevent them.
Machete-wielding Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed a pastor in Nigeria's Nasarawa state Thursday, June 30 as the pastor worked at his farm, sources said.
The Syrian military has declared a 72-hour "regime of calm" covering all of Syria from 1 a.m. on Wednesday (1800 EDT Tuesday), a military source told Reuters, although fighting and air attacks have been reported since then.
A Chinese legal assistant who was detained last year has been transferred to a different location but authorities have not disclosed her real location at present.
Christians in war-torn Ukraine received training that will enable them to share God's Word for the healing of those deeply affected by the chaos.
The predominantly Christian town of Al Qaa in Lebanon directed its fury toward the town's displaced Syrians after suicide bombers blasted themselves, leaving five people killed and dozens wounded, in a series of suicide attacks in late June.
Minority Rights Group said that Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein may have been terrible, but the post-Saddam era is no way better especially with Iraqi minorities facing serious extinction.
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.