A group of protesters coming from different religious backgrounds who rallied through Yangon on Saturday, May 14 are facing legal action as police issued charges for violations against an agreed protest route.
A Christian organization published a report stating which cities are most at risk of climate-induced coastal flooding in the future, and these places are mostly located in countries that are high carbon polluters: India, China, and the U.S.
The world's major power foreign ministers and leaders of the 17-nation International Syria Support Group (ISSG) have met in Vienna to renew calls for a complete cessation of hostilities in Syria, but failed to set a date for the next round of peace talks to be held in Geneva.
The Kenyan government has decided to close its refugee camps, which could displace an estimated 600,000 refugees who came from war-torn countries.
The wife of a Vietnamese pastor went through intense interrogation on Wednesday, May 11 in connection with her meeting with U.S. officials in March.
Iran has arrested eight people allegedly involved in an "un-Islamic" modeling practice on Instagram, Tehran's cybercrimes court prosecutor Javad Babaei announced on Sunday.
In recognition of the position taken by the council of churches that rejects the proposal to make Liberia a Christian nation, the country's National Muslim Council has restored its membership with the Interreligious Council of Liberia.
There might no longer be Christians in Iraq in five years' time because of the persecution they face in the hands of the Islamic State terror group, said an Assyrian priest.
A young Yazidi girl who faced a United Nations meeting to narrate her experience as a former Islamic State (IS) captive implored the international community's support in a plea that they recognize the genocide against her tribe and other minorities.
Access to the site where Jesus is believed to have been baptized had long been restricted because of the land mines left after the 1967 war, but a new project now aims to clear the area of explosives.
A third church this year has been burned down in Tanzania, in a series of arson attacks targeting Christian churches that began in 2013.
The Church of England has withdrawn an interfaith award from a Pakistani Muslim cleric after past comments praising Osama bin Laden resurfaced. Lambeth Palace announced Thursday that it had rescinded the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation presented to Maulana Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi on Sept. 11.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.