Violent attacks against Christians in India have increased at an alarming rate in 2016, with one attack occurring every 40 hours, according to a new report.

Pope Francis has denounced religious extremism during his visit to Egypt, but he encouraged the country's persecuted Christians to show extremism only in forgiving those who committed wrongdoing against them.

A prominent Christian human rights lawyer has been convicted by a Chinese court of subverting state power in a secretive trial in China's northern Tianjin municipality on Friday.

A human rights advocate who defected from North Korea said that orphans who were discovered to be Christians were "tortured harshly" by the dictatorial regime.

A Cuban court has sentenced a pastor to a year in prison on Tuesday for not sending his two children to state schools and opting to teach them at home instead.

Austrian President Alexander Van Der Bellen has suggested that there may be a time when all women may have to wear headscarves out of solidarity with Muslims if rampant Islamophobia continues.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has called on the U.S. State Department to add Russia to the list of countries that are considered the worst violators of religious freedom.

A Christian militia in Syria has condemned Turkey for launching airstrikes against U.S.-backed Kurdish allies who were fighting against the Islamic State.

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has called on the new secretary-general of the United Nations to formally recognize the genocide committed by the Islamic State against Christians in the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court reportedly handed down the death penalty to an atheist for renouncing Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.

A Canadian court has ruled that it is illegal for the Saskatchewan government to fund non-Catholic students who attend Catholic schools in the province.