A Christian man in Nigeria nearly lost his right eye and sustained multiple wounds on June 7 after getting stabbed by a group of young Muslim men who were angered to see him eating during Ramadan.
Activists fighting for homosexual rights in Poland were joined by thousands of supporters Saturday June 11 throughout the streets of Warsaw in a predominantly Catholic country where gay rights are among the least recognized.
The Scottish Episcopal Church has voted on Friday, June 10, to revise its canon law by removing the clause that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Authorities in Xinjiang, China announced that the residents of Ili prefecture need to submit blood samples for DNA profiling as a requirement for their travel documents.
A team of scientists in the UK are investigating a way to create babies using DNAs of four parents amidst fears of potential negative effects in the long future.
Evangelical leader Franklin Graham expressed his hope that the late Muslim boxer, Muhammad Ali, has given himself to Christ before passing away. He claims only Jesus Christ can save one's soul – Islam's Muhammad can't.
The ancient worship of Greek gods appears to be returning as churches that espouse adoration for the mythological figures have spung up in modern-day Greece.
A human rights watchdog reported that religious freedom is deteriorating in India, citing the government's failure to implement existing laws and its impunity for police.
Leaders of Christian churches in Pakistan announced that they are in solidarity with the Shia Muslims.
Yazidi girls try to be less desirable by covering their faces with dirt or by claiming young boys as their sons just to escape being raped by their militant captors. An escaped teenage boy adds to the grim tales of being an Islamic State captive.
The UN deemed that the Irish government's abortion laws are cruel and inhuman after an Irish woman in 2011, who couldn't get abortion in her own country, was forced to travel "while carrying a dying fetus at her own expense."
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.