Delegates from the National Baptist Convention of America are visiting Israel in order to gain insight into the conflict between Jews and Palestinians.

A bill was passed in Nigeria that many have viewed to be an effort to expand the Islamic Sharia law across the secular country. However, the sponsor of the bill said that that is not its purpose; rather, it aims to protect Christians from being attacked.

Seven Christian homes were looted and burned while a 70-year-old Christian woman was stripped naked and paraded in the streets of southern Egypt by a mob of 300 armed Muslims over rumors that her son is having an affair with a Muslim woman.

The United Nations and Human Rights Watch are deeply concerned about the statements made by Hamas, the ruling Islamic militant group in Gaza, of an imminent public execution of 13 Palestinians charged of collaboration with Israel for murder.

Egyptian Christians are expectant as the Egyptian Parliament is scheduled to discuss a proposed bill that is believed to ease restraints on building of churches.

Barack Obama on Friday became the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, site of the world's first atomic bombing, in a gesture Tokyo and Washington hope will showcase their alliance and reinvigorate efforts to rid the world of nuclear arms.

An angry Muslim mob burned the houses of Christians in the village of Karma in Minya on May 20.

A Christian community on the island of Iona off the western coast of Scotland is in dire need of help to have its buildings and utilities repaired, or it will be "unfit for purpose" in a number of years.

Sri Lanka was hit last week by the worst rains in the country since 2010. As of Tuesday, the death toll has gone up to over 100 with more than 100 persons still missing. With this devastation, many agencies and ministries have offered help.

The Church of England has introduced a new training resource to help schools in teaching core Christian beliefs. This came after concerns were raised that classes do not always touch the heart of the Christian faith.

The facilities of a large Christian church in Kazakhstan were raided simultaneously by police two months ago, an act that a religious freedom group says contradicts the positive comments of the country's president regarding Christian churches.