In a message during Easter, Prime Minister David Cameron focused on hope and urged the people of the United Kingdom to defend their Christian values against terrorists.
A nun who survived the attack of the Islamic State on a retirement home in Yemen early this month recounted what happened during the massacre, where four nuns and 12 others were killed and a priest has gone missing.
Pope Francis on Thursday washed and kissed the feet of refugees, including three Muslim men, and condemned arms makers as partly responsible for Islamist militant attacks that killed at least 31 people in Brussels.
"Empowering women and girls will greatly help the world community not to leave anyone behind, and their empowerment will empower us all," Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, said.
The Brussels bombing on Tuesday has put churches and governments on high alert. The terror that the Islamic State wishes to spread has seeped into society and a vicar has expressed his fear that the church might be the next target.
Lawyer Zhang Kai posted a message in Chinese social networking site WeChat on Wednesday, saying that he has been released from prison. He was put behind bars last year for assisting in the litigation of religion-based cases.
Christians and governments in different parts of the globe are on alert especially with Easter fast approaching, a time when further terror attacks might happen.
The amendment to the Immigration Bill filed by Labour's Lord Dubs was supported by peers, outvoting the government in the House of Lords 306 to 204. Once the bill becomes law, ministers would have to allow 3,000 child refugees from Europe to take refuge in Britain.
LANCASTER, Pa. — Four years in the making, the production “David” opened at Sight & Sound Theatres this year and explores the journey of an unassuming shepherd boy who became a king.
Secular intolerance has a “chilling effect” on Christians who are having to practice “various forms of self-censorship” as they're finding it difficult to express their faith freely in society, according to a new report detailing accounts from four countries.
Gunmen suspected to be Islamic Fulani herdsmen barged into a Catholic Church in southwestern Nigeria, opened fire and detonated explosives while the congregation was celebrating Mass on Pentecost Sunday, killing at least 50 worshipers, including women and children. It's feared that some Christians were also abducted after the attack.
For more than 1,500 days, Nigerian Christian teenager Leah Sharibu has been held captive by the Boko Haram terrorist group as Christians continue to be the target of attacks in the West African nation.