A man from the Canterbury region in New Zealand said that he hit his children's bottoms with a bamboo cane when they misbehaved because it's what his Christian faith taught him to do.
The pastor of a Chinese church was badly injured when a group of people suddenly attacked the church facility.
Three Christians in Guangdong were arrested by local police on May 30 for having religious materials in their possession.
The United Nations has declared that the Islamic State has been targeting Yazidis in Iraq and Syria as an act of genocide against the ethnic religious community.
Members of the Islamic State terror group reportedly decapitated a 4-year-old girl in Raqqa, Syria, when the mother refused to follow through with her threat to her daugher. They then forced the mother to soak her hands into the girl's blood.
Three Christians in the Middle East who have been missing since Tuesday are said to have been abducted by Muslim extremists.
A Muslim girl in Indonesia who lived in a Christian home for several weeks under a student exchange program learned about tolerance, but it was likewise a learning experience for the host family.
Under round-the-clock surveillance, human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng outsmarted Chinese authorities when his memoir of detailed abuses made it out of China.
Two of Lebanon's Christian ministers have quit their posts in protest because their political party deems that the government is failing to address the problems of the country.
Prince William has just become the first British royal to grace the cover of a gay magazine, as he speaks out against bullying especially of the homophobic kind.
Two Christian groups in Ghana are urging the Electoral Commission to implement the ruling by the Supreme Court regarding the voter's register. This is to make certain that it is cleaned prior to the November polls.
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.