A house church in Guangdong is being subjected to intensified pressure and harassment from Chinese authorities.

As the world celebrated the International Day of Prayer on May 8, Christians in Syria are encouraged by the prayers offered by believers from different countries on their behalf.

The longest-held U.S. prisoner in North Korea, missionary Kenneth Bae, was released in November 2014 after two years of ordeal. Bae urged those who remain as detainees in the communist country to not lose their hope of being freed.

India is moving forward in terms of gender equality as a new recommendation, if approved, could give transgenders who belong to the Christian community equal rights to ancestral property.

Giwa barracks in Maiduguri, Nigeria, which holds suspected Boko Haram members, has witnessed this year the death of 11 children less than six years of age, including four babies, due to the unsanitary conditions in the military detention center.

Neophyte politician and transgender Geraldine Roman is the first transgender politician elected to the House of Representatives in the predominantly Catholic Philippines.

A Chaldean priest, who runs a displacement center in Ainkawa in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, has blamed the United States government for not exerting enough effort to quash the Islamic State terror group.

A teenage girl was burned by a local jirga in another of Pakistan's "honor killing" on April 29 in Galyat's Makol village for helping her friend elope.

British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera describing Nigeria and Afghanistan as "fantastically corrupt countries," prompting the Archbishop of Canterbury to react in defense of the Nigerian president.

The attorney general of Northern Ireland voiced his opinion on the case regarding bakers who were fined for refusing to create a cake with the phrase "support gay marriage" in 2014.

A Chaldean priest revealed that Iraqi Christians blame the U.S. government for the Islamic State invasion of Iraq in 2014.