Steve Double, a British Conservative Party politician and a Member of Parliament, had expressed his regret for having "behaved inappropriately." The statement he issued came amid rumors of him having an affair with his assistant, Sarah Bunt.
The government of Queensland, Australia is reviewing religious instruction materials being used in schools in the state following a discovery in one school that a religious curriculum seems to proselytize students into Christianity.
The father of two teenage boys living in Lidingo, Sweden said he received a notification that he and his family are being evicted because their home will be given to migrants arriving from the Middle East.
Christians in India are more likely to take their own lives than Hindus or people of other religions, and tribals and Dalits are among the castes with high rates of suicide, according to data from the Union Home Ministry.
A conservative blog reveals how media coverage on the death of Harambe the gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo on May 28 was featured six times more than the 21 Coptic Christians beheaded by masked militants in Libya last year.
A 65-year-old Christian grocer was killed in north-west Bangladesh on Sunday, just hours after the wife of an anti-terror official was stabbed and shot in the head at the south-east part of the predominantly Muslim country.
As more Christian converts seek asylum in Britain, officials try to determine if their faith is genuine by asking them to recite the Ten Commandments from memory.
Ramadan, the holy month for Muslims, officially started on June 6. What is Ramadan and how is it observed?
The gender gap is closing between men and women church attendees, and this is because women are leaving the church, according to a study.
Last month, it was reported that there are now more people in England and Wales who do not identify with any religion than those who identify with Christianity. This was clear for some time, said Andrew Copson, the chief executive of the British Humanist Association; but now, because of the extent ...
Following the pressure brought about by international protests and campaign against the Barnevernet or Norwegian Child Protective Services, the Naustdal Municipality in Norway has finally caved in and decided to return the four other Bodnariu children to their Christian parents seven months after ...
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.