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.
A study shows that there is a significant dip in the number of teenage pregnancies in England, and Christian counselors deem this as good news. However, they also expressed concern that not many Christian schools are providing sex education classes.
Irish mother of three young children, Lorna Moore, was sentenced by a British court to two and a half years imprisonment before she could pursue her plans of raising her children, including an 11-month-old baby, under the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).
Four Mexicans who claim to having been persecuted because they are Christian will take their complaint to Washington, D.C. The men's testimonies are part of the agenda prepared by advocacy group Christian Solidarity Worldwide, which will tackle how Christians are being singled out in Mexico and ...
The Iraqi army together with the Kurdish Peshmerga have started to retake territories from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), but displaced Iraqi Christians are still reluctant to return to their villages as the internal violence continues.
A recent study revealed that people who identify as having no religion have exceeded the number of those who identify as Christians in England and Wales.
The Church of England has withdrawn an interfaith award from a Pakistani Muslim cleric after past comments praising Osama bin Laden resurfaced. Lambeth Palace announced Thursday that it had rescinded the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation presented to Maulana Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi on Sept. 11.
Vice President JD Vance criticized Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and United Methodist pastor Adam Hamilton at a campaign rally in Olathe, Kansas, accusing his church of financially supporting a Pride event associated with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.Vance urged voters to back Republican U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, who is seeking reelection against Hamilton, pastor of Resurrection, a multi-campus United Methodist congregation in Leawood.
A performance of Handel’s “Messiah” blending Western and Eastern music took place Sept. 12 at Mukawir, the hilltop fortress in Jordan traditionally associated with the beheading of John the Baptist. The concert was held under the patronage of HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal.
President John Dramani Mahama has ruled out the use of taxpayers' money to finance Ghana's National Cathedral, saying the country's Christian community should raise the funds needed to complete the stalled project.
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.