Members of a Christian church in Wenzhou, Zhejiang were surprised by the unannounced demolition of their church building, which was carried out while their pastor was negotiating for a relocation.
A Christian teenager in Scotland suffered from a series of bullying acts, including having been tied to a cross, allegedly carried out by his co-workers at a shopfitting firm.
Marking the second year since terrorists laid siege displaced tens of thousands of Christians, Syriac Patriarchs call for liberation of the Iraqi Christian lands.
A college in the United Kingdom has banned a Christian club from meeting in its campus because of the government's Counter-Extremism Strategy, but Prime Minister David Cameron finds this "ludicrous."
A Chinese pastor detained by the communist state of China claimed that he was tortured to extort a confession and that state prosecutors threatened him to be fed to the pigs.
After two days of searching, Canadian authorities have recovered the body of the South Korean exchange student who went missing on June 8 during summer camp in British Columbia.
The Philippine government confirmed that Canadian Robert Hall was beheaded by the militant group Abu Sayyaf after the deadline for the payment of ransom had passed on the afternoon of Monday, June 13.
A human rights activist has been detained in Turkey since February on charges of participating in an "armed organization."
Pastors in the state of Telangara, India went through a basic legal course to help them become aware of their rights so they will know how to handle abuse and persecution.
A group of 13 Christian churches in Mizoram, India has called for church members to refrain from practising yoga since it is rooted mainly on Hinduism.
A Christian leader has claimed that the Egyptian government is deliberately keeping secret the number of Christians in the country, allegedly because it is afraid that they would demand that Christians occupy some senior posts in the government.
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.