A Christian human rights lawyer considered by Chinese authorities as "more dangerous than Bin Laden" is remembered by his colleague a year after his disappearance in a political crackdown.
Mpho Tutu van Furth , the reverend daughter of the South African Nobel peace prize winner and rights champion, Desmond Tutu, was well-aware that she could be losing her priesthood license if she married her woman partner. She decided to marry her, anyway.
A pastor from South Africa decided to show a demonstration of God's power by telling church members to sleep before driving a car over their bodies.
Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has taken as swipe at Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president, intimating that he is not Christian.
A Yazidi woman who managed to escape from the clutches of the Islamic militants share the harrowing tale of how she and her children were physically and psychologically abused, tortured, and sold as sex slaves.
Li Jiamei is a six-year-old who wants to rescue her missing dad, Li Heping, a Christian human rights lawyer whom Chinese authorities took away from his family almost a year ago on July 10 as part of the government's crackdown against activists.
The United Kingdom's Home Office has received criticism following allegations that some of its interpreters are deliberately jeopardizing cases of some asylum seekers due to personal reasons.
Pastor Saeed Abedini says that Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, the jailed Christian woman in Iran's Evin prison who went on hunger strike on May 25 as protest to the medical treatment authorities withheld from her, has been temporarily discharged on health grounds Monday, June 6 but already she ...
The Islamic State terror group reportedly burned to death 19 girls who had refused to sleep with its members.
Greece had expressed its disapproval of Turkey's decision to use a former Greek Orthodox Christian basilica as a place for daily Quran reading during the Ramadan, the Islalmic month of prayer and fasting.
At least 18 Albinos in Malawi have been killed since 2014 in a surge of violence where people with albinism are hunted down for their body parts believed to bring wealth and good luck and sold to witchdoctors for quick money.
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.