Dozens of Christian missionaries from the U.S. are coming to North Korea to join a university, where two professors were recently arrested, despite the risk of imprisonment.
A Sudanese pastor and a Christian activist, who were sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment in January, were released from prison in Khartoum on Thursday after they were granted a presidential pardon.
Dr. Michael Youssef, founder and president of Leading the Way Ministries, has said that one of the reasons why Islamic ideology succeeds in spreading all over the world is because Christians are denying Biblical truths.
Egypt's Interior Ministry has announced that security forces have killed eight members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group who were being trained to attack government and Christian targets.
A prominent Christian human rights lawyer in China was finally released from prison on Tuesday after being detained for nearly two years, but his time in detention has apparently taken a physical toll on him.
The Christian owners of Ashers Baking Company, who were found guilty of breaching U.K's equality laws for refusing to bake a cake supporting gay marriage, has been allowed to take their case to U.K.'s highest court.
Supporters of Jakarta's Christian governor gathered outside the city hall on Wednesday to protest his blasphemy conviction, in a case that has raised concerns about human rights and religious tolerance in Indonesia.
Father Tom Uzhunnalil, an Indian priest who was kidnapped by suspected Islamic State militants in Yemen last year, has made a plea for help in a new video, saying his health condition is "deteriorating quickly."
The wife of a Christian pastor who was recently sentenced to life imprisonment in Pakistan for blasphemy claimed that her husband is being tortured every day in prison.
Days after the Islamic State terror group issued a threat against Christians in Egypt, a former Homeland Security Advisory Council member under the Obama administration has suggested that Coptic Christians only got what was coming to them.
Sudanese authorities arrested two Christians on Sunday as bulldozers tore apart their church in Khartoum's Soba al-Aradi suburb on Sunday.
Director Alejandro Monteverde, best known for “Sound of Freedom,” is bringing the Nativity to the big screen this Christmas season with “Zero A.D.: The Birth of Christ,” a biblical epic highlighting the courage and faith behind the birth of Jesus. Distributed by Angel Studios, the drama-thriller opens in theaters Dec. 11 and depicts Mary and Joseph’s struggle to protect the newborn Messiah amid political turmoil.
The Anglican Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast has chosen the Rev. Paul Donison as its next bishop, ending months of uncertainty following an inconclusive election in May. The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) announced Wednesday that the Texas-based diocese elected Donison on Nov. 7.
Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice-elect Maggie Ellis has announced plans to overturn a rule protecting judges who decline to officiate same-sex weddings because of their religious beliefs.
A law that came into effect this year gives the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) increased powers to restrict religious practice even as several Christians remain imprisoned for carrying out their ministries, according to an advocacy group’s new report. In the past year freedom of religion in China has deteriorated with the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress coming into effect on July1.
Several pastors affiliated with the Calvary Chapel movement have publicly criticized Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa’s affirmation of women serving as pastors, following an announcement by Char Brodersen at the church that once served as the movement’s flagship congregation. The Calvary Chapel Association (CCA), through its Heartland Regional Team, reaffirmed its opposition to appointing women as pastors or elders.