India: 85 Major Anti-Christian Attacks carried out in 2015, NGO reports
85 major anti-Christian attacks were carried out in 2015 according to a NGO based in India. The alleged persecution of Christian were from 20 states in the previous year.
Pope Visits Rome Synagogue, Calls on Catholics to Unify
Pope Francis made his first trip to a Rome Synagogue on Sunday, where he expressed his firm stand against religious violence and exhorted the Catholic people to come together.
Iran frees U.S. sailors swiftly as diplomacy smoothes waters
Iran freed ten U.S. sailors on Wednesday a day after detaining them aboard two U.S. Navy patrol boats in the Gulf, bringing a swift end to an incident that had rattled nerves shortly before the expected implementation of a landmark nuclear accord.
Vatican approves loan of relic for Anglican Primate Meeting
The Vatican has approved the loaning of a deeply symbolic religious relic to the gathering of Anglican heads in Britain this week
Nine months after al-Shabab attack; Garissa University reopens
Nine months after the deadliest attack by the Somali-based group, claiming the lives of nearly 150, Garissa University College reopened as Kenya continues to recover from the shock of the massacre.
As Anglicans meet, spiritual leader says schism would be failure
A schism in the worldwide Anglican Communion over homosexual rights and women clerics would be a failure but not a disaster, the spiritual head of Anglicans said
U.S. House to vote on North Korea sanctions bill
The House of Representatives could vote in the coming days on legislation backed by Republican and Democratic lawmakers to broaden U.S. sanctions on North Korea.
China says couples will not need approval to have two children
China will not require prospective parents to obtain approval to have two children under the new "two-child policy", in what appears to be a further relaxation of reproductive controls in the world's most populous country.
France prepares tribute to Charlie Hebdo, Jewish shop victims
France this week commemorates the victims of last year's Islamist militant attacks on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket with eulogies, memorial plaques and another cartoon lampooning religion.
Clinton: Islamic State persecution of Christians, Yazidis, a genocide
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that Islamic State violence against Christians, Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East was genocide.
U.S.-led air strikes kill IS leaders linked to Paris attacks
A U.S.-led coalition has killed 10 Islamic State leaders in the past month with targeted air strikes, including individuals linked to last month's attacks in Paris, a spokesman for the coalition said on Tuesday.
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Presbyterian Church in America votes to leave National Association of Evangelicals
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Secular intolerance of Christians' views is leading to self-censorship, report warns
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.
Over 50 killed in 'vile and satanic' attack at Nigerian church on Pentecost Sunday
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.
Leah Sharibu held captive over 1,500 days in Nigeria, but family advocates haven't lost hope
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.