Christian families are starting to return to the devastated Iraq town of Karamles and weekly church services have started again.
Lady Justice Bamugemereire was a judge in the anti-corruption division of the High Court in Uganda. Her commission uncovered a $2.5bn racket to syphon money away from a major roadbuilding project.
The second major hurricane to rage through the Caribbean this month, Maria has killed at least 32 people and devastated several small islands, including St Croix in the US Virgin Islands and Dominica.
An evangelical Christian pastor from Russia has described how he has fled his homeland to seek political asylum in Germany because he says he fears being imprisoned as a terrorist.
The horror of sexual slavery: If we truly want to rid the world of this, we must approach it in all its complexity.
The Catholic Bishop of Marawi appealed to Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday to allow some displaced Marawi families to return to their war-torn city, as he also urged Christians to help Muslim communities there.
A senior French cardinal, Philippe Barbarin, is to be tried on charges of failing to report historical child sexual abuse.
The magnitude 7.1 shock killed at least 216 people, nearly half of them in the capital, less than two weeks after a powerful tremor killed nearly 100 people in the south of the country.
Speculation is mounting as to whether a Catholic priest abducted by an ISIS-linked militants in the Philippines was forced to convert to Islam.
His words about North Korea drew the strongest reaction, with loud murmurs filling the green-marbled UN General Assembly hall.
Experts on witchcraft are gathering under the banner of the United Nations (UN) in Geneva this week for discussions aimed at tackling the phenomenon, which is estimated to kill, maim and affect thousands of people every year.
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh could die due to a lack of food, shelter and water, given the huge numbers fleeing violence in Myanmar, Save the Children warned on Sunday.
Thousands of adults in Britain are turning to food banks to feed their families as UN figures show that for the first time in a decade, the number of hungry people worldwide is growing
The Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has defended a church that cancelled the wedding of a local coupleafter they posted their support for same-sex marriage on Facebook.
What, then, could the de factor head of government and Nobel Laureate do? Firstly, as a political leader and a Nobel Laureate, she should not stand in the way of international assistance.
Turning Tragedy into Opportunity: Reflections of an African environment advocate after the annual international gathering of the Christian charity Tearfund.
A Nigerian pastor is on death row after dousing several church members in petrol and setting them ablaze.
A Christian teenager has been beaten to death by his classmates only days into beginning school after drinking from the same glass as a Muslim, according to reports and the charity British Pakistani Christians.
Nigerian Fulani herdsmen have murdered 20 Christians, 19 of them from the same Baptist church and one from a Methodist church.
The victim of an acid attack who planned to die by euthanasia has changed her mind after talking to Pope Francis in Colombia.
Irma, as one of the most powerful hurricanes recorded in the Atlantic, came ashore in Florida on Sunday and battered towns as it worked its way up the state.
Palestinians have rallied in Jerusalem against the selling of church property to Jewish settlers.
Pope Francis today travels to Medellin, once notorious as the stomping grounds of drug lord Pablo Escobar, to find a city transformed since his predecessor Pope John Paul visited in 1986.
Pope Francis, on his fifth visit to his native Latin America, is visiting Colombia with a message of peace. But despite a fragile three-month ceasefire, the country is still riven with conflict and has millions upon millions of internally displaced people.
Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove toward Florida on Friday as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain.
Signs of hope are emerging for Christians in Iraq after they were forced to flee by the ISIS invasion.
Islamist militants went from house to house in Kenya on Wednesday, dragging out victims, shooting them and then beheading them.
Colombia has been torn by armed conflict since 1964, and it is weighed down by drug-trafficking related to cocaine production.
A simmering row over church land in Jerusalem has reached a head after church leaders in the Holy City yesterdayhit out at Israel for an alleged breach of a status quo that has been agreed for centuries.
A Catholic priest in Nigeria, who was kidnapped on Friday morning, has been found murdered.
Under fire megachurch pastor Joel Osteen has hit back at critics who claim he initially refused to open his 16,000 capacity building to flood victims after Hurricane Harvey in Texas.
A Christian Pakistani teenager was beaten to death by his Muslim classmates on his fourth day at his new school in the Vehari District of Punjab, Pakistan.
Pope Francis called on a delegation of South Korean religious leaders to promote reconciliation and spurn violence and fear on Saturday, amid a tense standoff on their home peninsula.
US President Donald Trump travelled to Houston and Lake Charles, Louisiana on Saturday to meet victims of catastrophic storm Harvey.
Christian Aid has launched an urgent appeal for help as the stricken nation struggles to cope with the aftermath of the mid-August landslide
A North Korean family has spoken about their horrific ordeal and ongoing suffering because of their faith at the hands of the pariah state.
Dozens of Chinese Catholics yesterday tried to stop the demolition of their church in Wangcun, near Changzhi, in the south-eastern Shanxi province of the country, according to Asia News.
Government forces in the Philippines have finally cleared and retaken a Catholic church in the centre of the predominantly Muslim city of Marawi after 95 days of fighting there, according to The Philippine Star.
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer has finally met Pope Francis after he was left off the list of officials who met the pontiff with Donald Trump in May.
Two elite private Jesuit schools in Australia appear cautiously to have endorsed same-sex marriage, citing the teaching of Pope Francis, ahead of a referendum on the issue in that country.
Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage, begins August 30 with two million Muslims arriving in the holy city of Mecca.
The Syrian army and Hezbollah on Monday prepared to escort Islamic State fighters to eastern Syria from their enclave on the border with Lebanon under an agreement following a week-long offensive against the jihadist group.
Houston is facing worsening historic flooding in the coming days as Tropical Storm Harvey dumps more rain on the city, swelling rivers to record levels and forcing federal engineers on Monday to release water from area reservoirs in hopes of controlling the rushing currents.
A mail centre in Canberra was evacuated this morning after white powder was discovered in a package addressed to the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL).
A US missionary detained in Turkey has been charged with attempting to overthrow the government after being arrested last October.
On this day, August 24, in 1456, the Gutenberg Bible was completed and the world was changed forever. What led up to this revolution of the printing press?
Pastor Mark Burns, an ally of Donald Trump, has denied to Christian Today that he has experienced any visa problems while in India to preach despite a report implying that he was in violation of rules against the promotion of religion.
Tensions between Coptic Christians and Muslims in an Upper Egyptian village eased this week following weekend clashes after the Christians were prevented from holding a Mass at a private home because they had no permit.
Redemption is always on offer, even to the worst offenders.
Redemption is always on offer, even to the worst offenders.
More than 800 people found shelter in a church during the terrorist attack in Barcelona.
Four Kenyan Christians were brutally murdered by Al-Qaeda affiliated militants last week after refusing to recite the Shahada β the Islamic statement of faith.
More than 12,500 people, many small-time drug users and dealers, have been killed since Duterte took office in June 2016.
The wreckage of USS Indianapolis has been found, on the bed of the Pacific ocean, 18,000 feet beneath the surface.
Civil war, intense famine and a refugee crisis have ravaged South Sudan in recent months. The situation is now so stark that thousands in the country have fled their homes and sought refuge in a Christian cathedral.
The Catalonia police on Sunday said investigators were still working on the hypothesis of 12 suspects in the Barcelona attacks that took place on Thursday and that one man was still sought. Speaking to local radio, spokesman Albert Oliva said this man was Moroccan-born 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub.
Surveys of more than 3,000 British Jews for the Campaign Against Antisemitism found nearly a third of British Jews have considered leaving the UK in the past two years.
Surveys of more than 3,000 British Jews for the Campaign Against Antisemitism found nearly a third of British Jews have considered leaving the UK in the past two years.
Spanish police were on Saturday searching for the driver of a van that ploughed into a crowd in Barcelona, killing 13 people, in one of two deadly attacks in Catalonia carried out by a network of suspected Islamist militants.
A Christian summer camp in Greece was burned down this summer as the country faced an onslaught of forest fires.
Spain mounted a sweeping anti-terror operation on Friday after a suspected Islamist militant drove a van into crowds in Barcelona.
So here are five countries Trump has looked to build relations with and what his administration has said about their religious freedom record:
Three female suicide bombers have attacked a refugee camp in north-eastern Nigeria, killing at least 27 people.
A complaint has been rejected from a Catholic church in the Dutch city of Tilburg after two pornography actors were filmed having sex in the confessional box for a film that was posted on a porn website in the country earlier this year.
The family of the late missionary John Magee, who secretly recorded the Nanking Massacre in 1937, has received a peace medal on his behalf given to them by the Chinese city.
The United States and South Korea have prepared for more joint military drills, which has infuriated the North, and experts warned Pyongyang could still go ahead with a provocative plan.
At least 12 people have been crushed to death and another 50 injured at a Christian festival in Portugal after a tree toppled into a crowd of worshippers.
Some 500 Christian converts from Iran have sought asylum in Turkey following what they say is persecution by the authorities, according to the Middle Eastern news website Rudaw.
A Christian mother arrested during a government crackdown against evangelicals in Eritrea died in jail last week.
How one charity is helping people learn to help themselves. The powerful work of BMS World Mission in Uganda
Pastor Lim, who had made frequent humanitarian visits to the country, was imprisoned two years ago but released suddenly in what he believes was a gesture of goodwill.
Mercy Ships and the Spring Harvest team have formed a new partnership, and at Easter next year will come together to tell the stories of lives being transformed in Africa, and how the church in Britain can get involved.
Priests who fail to report suspected abuse, even if they hear about it from within the confession box, could face criminal charges.
A gathering of hundreds of white nationalists in Virginia took a deadly turn on Saturday when a car ploughed into a group of counter-protesters and killed at least one person in a flare up of violence that challenged U.S. President Donald Trump.
The family of an Egyptian Coptic Christian soldier who died last month on his first day at work says he was murdered because of his Christian faith. The soldier died in the same regiment where another Copt died in mysterious circumstances in November 2015, according to World Watch Monitor (WWM).
An Eritrean priest responsible for saving thousands of lives aboard migrant ships in the Mediterranean is being investigated by an Italian public prosecutor for aiding illegal immigration.
An Iranian Christian convert, due to be deported from Sweden back to Iran, is being offered asylum in Hungary.
High ranking Canadian officials are in North Korea trying to secure the release of a pastor, imprisoned in the pariah state since 2015.
A Cameroon Bishop who was found dead in June was killed for his opposition to homosexual clergy, a local priest has alleged.
145 girls (if not more) have been used as suicide bombers since January 2017 - many of them donated by their parents. Why do we hardly hear about this in the West?
The Iraqi Kurdish leader Masud Barzani has sought to assure Christians in the region that they will be protected in the wake of the independence referendum coming on 25 September.
A Nigerian evangelical leader has been kidnapped by Fulani gunmen and a ransom demanded, his denomination have claimed.
Syrian government and allied forces have taken the last major town in Homs province from Islamic State, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday, as the army advances towards militant strongholds in the east of the country.
A new U.N. report looks into the tragic situation in DR Congo...
A Catholic priest who was attacked while celebrating Mass in Mexico City in May has died in hospital.
Archaeology has come to the aid of biblical literalists with a dig in Jerusalem claiming to prove a passage as historically accurate.
According to witnesses, the Christians were travelling to a pilgrimage when the packed bus plunged down a steep ravine.
Maryam Naghash Zargaran, 39, was arrested alongside Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini in January 2013 in connection with their work at an orphanage.
Israeli police arrested five antiquities dealers in Jerusalem over the weekend, seizing a range of artefacts including gold coins and ancient weapons as part of an international investigation into smuggled Iraqi items involving the evangelical-run crafts supply firm Hobby Lobby.
The small Iraqi town of Alqosh on the troubled Nineveh Plain has elected a female Christian as mayor, in a first for that country.
Thirty-three people including seven minors have been arrested in East Jerusalem after dozens of Israeli police raided the homes of those suspected of involvement in the violent clashes over security at the Temple Mount.
An Ethiopian Christian man suffered deep wounds to the back of his head when he was attacked by a group of local Muslims with machetes while at home alone because he had been evangelising, according to World Watch Monitor (WWM).
Oil-rich but economically ailing Venezuela awaited a fresh wave of protests against the unpopular Maduro.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has declared a new Anglican province in Sudan six years after the predominately Christian south split from the Muslim majority north.
More than a hundred children have been killed in the last month alone in the Congo with hundreds more used as human shields, devastating new figures reveal.
More than a dozen Christians have been expelled from their village in India after they refused to recant their faith.
Five properties were searched on Saturday across the Sydney suburbs of Surry Hills, Lakemba, Punchbowl and Wiley Park.
Horrific video footage has gone viral on Facebook capturing the moment a bull took its own life after its horns were set on fire as a jeering crowd stood by and watched.
President Donald Trump replaced his beleaguered White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, after only six months on the job on Friday.
An Iranian Christian who threatened to end his life by starving himself to death after he was sentenced to 15 years in jail has been released on bail.
Finland has reportedly seen a flood of conversions from Islam to Christianity, with hundreds of asylum seekers from the Middle East turning to the Christian faith, officials in the Evangelical Lutheran community said.
School kids who talk about Jesus or exchange Christmas cards with classmates could find themselves penalized in the name of inclusiveness under new proposals being floated by Australian education officials.
Missionary Petr Jasek was locked up with ISIS fighters in a Sudan prison where he was relentlessly abused by the jihadis. At first he prayed every day for freedom but that changed when he saw how God was working even in that place of hell.
New evidence of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem has been found at the City of David.
39 Articles of Faith, 39 books in the OT β and from Sunday, 39 provinces in the Anglican Communion. Archbishop Justin Welby is to visit Muslim-majority Sudan to inaugurate the 39th province of the Worldwide Anglican Communion
Five members of an American interfaith delegation to Israel, including three Jews, were prevented from boarding their flight from Washington DC, reportedly because of their activism on behalf of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS).
The French president Emmanuel Macron will lead mourners marking the one year anniversary of the murder byIslamist militants of the priest Fr. Jacques Hamel.
A persecution watchdog group has shared the story of a Muslim extremist who upon witnessing a church service led by Christians in war-torn Syria decided to abandon his radical lifestyle and turn to Jesus Christ.
Seven Christians have been killed in Kenya by al-Shabaab militants, according to International Christian Concern.
A federal judge in Michigan halted on Monday the deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals from the United States, the latest legal victory for the Iraqi nationals facing deportation in a closely watched case.
Israel has removed metal detectors from the historic al-Asqa mosque after days of violence and protest over the holy site, but Palestinians have rejected the new security measures.
The head of the Anglican Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, Bishop Howard Gregory, has broken ranks with many fellow Christian leaders in the region and urged for the removal of the offence of sodomy from the law.
The Pope not only took the time to reply in person. He hinted strongly that he might indeed consider attending the annual pilgrimage in Loreto, Italy next year.
Israel will not remove metal detectors whose installation outside a major Jerusalem mosque has triggered the bloodiest confrontations with the Palestinians in years, but could eventually reduce their use, Israeli officials said on Sunday.
Iraqi forces say that a young girl in their captivity in Mosul is a German girl who became radicalized online and left her country to marry an ISIS jihadi
The prison gates are opening wider for persecuted Christians in Iran with 12 more receiving prison sentences last month.
One Muslim teenage boy had other things on his mind when he followed his crush to a Christian summer camp but rather than being kicked out, the camp teachers paved the way for him to meet Christ.
He was once an elusive and crafty drug smuggler who was able to build a large underground network in Central Asia, transporting drugs in at least three countries, including Afghanistan.
Almost as many also believe Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr were extremists, a new poll by ComRes for the Evangelical Alliance reveals
A recent report from the Woolf Institute found that local communities β especially faith and other minority groups β are increasingly important at times of crisis. The report authors Jan-Jonathan Bock and Sami Everett explain the quiet citizen subtitle to the report and how this is linked to an increase in social and political engagement by local faith communities.
The son of a murdered Indian church leader has revealed his father received death threats before he was shot by men on a motorbike on Saturday.
Pope Francis has made a surprise phone call to an Argentine rubbish collector who lost both his legs in a serious accident.
Two Catholic priests have been kidnapped in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
A would-be bride turned her $30,000 non-refundable wedding reception into a banquet for the homeless after her fiancΓ© cancelled their marriage.
An astonishing choral performance of all 150 Psalms in one weekend is coming soon. Tido Vasser, managing director of the Netherlands Chamber Choir, on what inspired him to embark on this ambitious project
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge today visited the site of the Nazi concentration and death camp at Stutthof inPoland, in a trip organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET).
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge today visited the site of a former Nazi concentration and death camp at Stutthof in a trip organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET).
Muslims in Quebec City are protesting after being left without their own cemetery following a local referendum, despite an atrocity in January in which a gunman killed six members of a mosque, with five victims being sent abroad for their burial.
Mike Pence said that God had a hand in creating the state of Israel, as he heaped praise on the Jewish state whileaddressing the evangelical group Christians United for Israel last night.
An Israeli Christian has been charged with the murdering his daughter after she refused to end her relationship with a Muslim and said she was converting to Islam.
A pastor was murdered outside his church in Ludhiana, northern India on Saturday in a brutal attack captured on CCTV.
Brave Christian women refused ISIS orders to renounce their faith even thought it cost them their lives.
According to the British Asian Christian Association, local Christians believe it is a hate attack based on the increasing persecution of Christians in India.
The military campaign may be over but thousands still need help. Tearfund is asking for prayers and other support
Archaeologist Dr Norma Franklin says she is not religious but believes that the Bible can be used to help in historical research in Israel.
A staunch defender of Islam never expected Jesus to come to his life, much less transform him into an ardent believerβnot in his wildest dreams.
Thanks to the heroics of a former U.S. Marine turned missionary, a baby boy is alive and well after he was rescued deep in the heart of former ISIS stronghold, Mosul, in Iraq.
A doctor from the United States is to fly to the UK this weekend to assess the critically-ill baby Charlie Gard on Monday. Dr Michio Hirano was named in the High Court in London for the first time this morning.
The judge in the Charlie Gard case has told the High Court this morning that he is open to a change of mind β but only if there is good evidence to support it.
In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Donald Trump has claimed that the Russian President Vladimir Putin would have preferred Hillary Clinton to have won the US presidency.
22 years to the day since this iconic event, what is its legacy and what can we learn from the good and bad elements of it?
Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has reportedly defended exorcisms as a helpful when it comes to healing people who suffer from various mental health problems.
Under the Trump administration, Christians now make up an increasing share of refugees entering the US, reversing a trend that had seen Muslim immigration outnumber that of Christians under President Obama.
At the thriving Razzouk Ink near the Jaffa Gate, the Razzouk family of tattoo artists are continuing a tradition of issuing ancient signs of Christian pilgrimage that has gone on since the Crusades.
The US President was invited by Prime Minister Theresa May to come to Britain in a state visit that was expected to take place this summer but will now take place next year.
ISIS militants have been purged from their occupation of Mosul, Iraq β but while some Christians are eager to return home, many have no home left - or fear that an Islamist ideology may yet remain.
Over two centuries later, Jesus Christ has finally arrived in a remote forest in Uganda inhabited by primitive people who have not seen the advance of civilization.
The youth, named as Dylan and believed to be around 18 years old, was dragged from the Christian camp by the black bear and bitten twice in the head at Glacier View Ranch, near Boulder.
Think about the potential of a fully awakened church.
An Episcopal Church priest has been arrested after allegedly pulling a gun in a road rage incident.
Throughout the Hebrew Scriptures, the people of Israel are reminded that they have been welcomed by God and so too they must welcome others.
Another Catholic priest has been found stabbed to death in Mexico.
A pastor has been attacked by Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria β just the latest in a line of violent assaults suffered by Christians in the middle belt of the country.
The Russian Orthodox Church is seeing the highest numbers ever training for priesthood , according to an independent Russian news agency.
Declining levels of religious freedom is in part down globalisation with the arrival of different faiths and cultures leading to growing fear and restrictions on minority groups, academics say.
The US Christian craft-supply company Hobby Lobby has agreed with the US Department of Justice to forfeit thousands of ancient artefacts illegally smuggled into the country from the Middle East.
Far-right activists are planning to block humanitarian aid to refugees and migrants drowning in the Mediterranean sea.
Leading evangelical groups in America are urging the US Secretary of State to stand against Christian persecution in Sudan.
A 22-year-old Jewish extremist was found guilty yesterday of carrying out an arson attack two years ago at the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish at Tabgha on the Sea of Galilee.
One evangelical pastor explains why he thinks it is not a sin.
Kidnapped Colombian nun Sister Gloria Argoti is among six hostages, including three missionaries, shown on a video released by a coalition of jihadist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda. The video is the first evidence that Sister Gloria and the other hostages are still alive.
Almost half of the UK population think Islam is incompatible with British society, a survey is suggesting.
Three car bombs exploded in Damascus on Sunday, state media said, killing at least seven people in the first suicide bombings in the Syrian capital since jihadists attacked in March.
A Russian religious TV network affiliated to President Putin has offered to pay for one way plane tickets for gay people out of the country.
Canadians would rather vote for an atheist than an evangelical Christian, a new poll suggests.
Canadians would rather vote for an atheist than an evangelical Christian, a new poll suggests.
On the extraordinary contribution to Jewish Christian relations in the contemporary era by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams
A Church of England bishop is leading calls for change as a new report shows a worrying failure by successive governments over two decades to narrow the gap between the rich and poor.
Another video created by the Islamic State terror group has surfaced showing two captured brainwashed children, part of the so-called cubs of the caliphate, shooting two prisoners in the back of the head.
Abortions for Northern Irish women will be allowed on the NHS, the chancellor announced today, in a major concession to avoid a Tory rebellion in the House of Commons.
More Islamist extremist suspects were arrested in the European Union (EU) last year, and more women and children were involved in terrorist plots, Europol stated in a new report.
Methodists and Anglicans are on the exchange of agreeing historic proposals that would recognise the ministers and priests of both churches for the first time since they split in the late 18th century. And for the first time ever, the proposals will give Methodists in the UK a bishop.
Methodists and Anglicans are embarking on a process of historic proposals that would recognise the ministers and priests of both churches for the first time since they split in the late 18th century. And for the first time ever, the proposals, if agreed, would give Methodists in the UK a bishop.
The US Supreme Court has backed religious groups in a major ruling that narrows that gap between church and state.
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is leading a campaign urging western countries to put religious minorities at the heart of any future deal with Iran
A leading Christian human rights charity says Christians are facing yet another crackdown in Eritrea.
Donald Trump has broken a near 20-year tradition by refusing to host a White House iftar dinner marking the end of Ramadan.
Despite still largely opposing same-sex marriage, white evangelicals show the most dramatic rise in support compared to a decade ago when just 14 per cent were in favour compared to 35 per cent now.
A military official said on Saturday more than 100 Christians could be hostages, including a priest, according to information provided by eight residents who escaped their captors during a Friday air strike.
An overturned oil tanker exploded killing at least 123 people in Pakistan on Sunday, as most of the victims had gathered round when spilt fuel from the stricken vehicle ignited, officials said.
The government said 34 high-rise apartment blocks had failed fire safety checks carried out after the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze, including several in north London where residents were forced to evacuate amid chaotic scenes.
Fears grew for 141 people missing in China after a landslide buried their mountain village in southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday, with reports that only three survivors had been pulled out of the mud and rock hours after the calamity struck.
Investigators said on Friday they would consider manslaughter charges over the London tower block fire that killed at least 79 people, as thousands of apartment-dwellers a few miles away were told to leave their homes due to fire risk.
Police are considering manslaughter charges for those responsible for the Grenfall tower fire that left at least 79 people dead.
A Federal District judge has intervened to block the deportation of more than 100 Iraqi Christians who were arrested earlier this month.
The wife and son of a Coptic Christian who was among a group of 29 killed and 24 maimed while traveling to amonastery in southern Egypt have described the brutal killings by Islamist extremists and their aftermath.
A Christian former special forces operative who now works as an aid worker was recently caught on camera saving ayoung girl from Islamic State gunfire in Mosul, Iraq.
An American Iraqi Christian family is one among more than 100 fearing the deportation of loved ones to Iraq, where the threat of genocide at the hands of ISIS remains high.
A South Korean Christian who taught languages to two abducted and murdered Chinese nationals at his school in Pakistan has been arrested.
Police are treating an attack on Muslims in north London in which one man was killed and ten injured, some critically, as a terror attack, Prime Minister Theresa May said this morning.
After fleeing for their lives, as many as 1500 people β mostly Muslim civilians β are now stuck in a Catholic church in the southeast of the Central African Republic.
Church workers were stunned by findings of a new report which goes against a prevailing view that churchgoing among the young is in terminal decline.
A Muslim teacher tried to save another Christian by offering to sacrifice himself for the other. As punishment, both were kidnapped.
Barbaric ISIS militants had used the Syrian Orthodox Church of St. Ephraim in eastern Mosul to abuse innocent women and girls
We need to focus on why this happened and why so often those affected by tragedies are those at the bottom end of the social ladder.
We need to focus on why this happened and why so often those affected by tragedies are those at the bottom end of the social ladder.
The round-up represents a new phase in action begun in 2002 against religious practices that are not affiliated with Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran and Orthodox Christian churches or Sunni Islam.
The round-up represents a new phase in action begun in 2002 against religious practices that are not affiliated with Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran and Orthodox Christian churches or Sunni Islam.
Massive flames licked up the sides of the block as 200 firefighters battled the blaze for hours along with 40 fire engines. Flumes of black and grey smoke were billowing high into the air over London hours after the blaze was sparked.
Massive flames licked up the sides of the block as 200 firefighters battled the blaze for hours along with 40 fire engines. Flumes of black and grey smoke were billowing high into the air over London hours after the blaze was sparked.
Two Chinese Christian missionaries operating in Pakistan have been abducted and killed by ISIS. The pair were preachers who had pretended to be business people in order to enter the country.
Two Chinese Christian missionaries operating in Pakistan have been abducted and killed by ISIS. The pair were preachers who had pretended to be business people in order to enter the country.
Violent attacks on Christians are surging in Sri Lanka this year with more than 20 separate incidents in the last six months.
Violent attacks on Christians are surging in Sri Lanka this year with more than 20 separate incidents in the last six months.
Why did Theresa May flunk the challenge and Jeremy Corbyn exceed expectations?
An Iraqi Christian girl kidnapped by ISIS has been returned to her family after being missing for three years.
Creation is being crucified. This crucified creation is groaning under the weight of sin and greed.
The Scottish Episcopal Church has forged ahead becoming the first UK Anglican church to legalise gay marriage.
Both Tories and Labour seats are now vulnerable, including a number with Christian candidates.
With the General Election 2017 just one day away Christians Today is zooming in on our last battleground seats where a Christian candidate is in the spotlight.
Three years on from the deadly Ebola outbreak, Sierra Leone gives the world lessons on how cultural considerations can stem epidemics
Police in Paris are responding to an alert at the Notre Dame Cathedral amid reports of gunshots and panic.
Politician and traditional clan leader Norodin Alonto Lucman reportedly hid Christians in his home.
Politician and traditional clan leader Norodin Alonto Lucman reportedly hid Christians in his home.
Six-Day War, which began 50 years ago today, marked not only an immediate, decisive victory by Israel over its Arab neighbours, but also has had a major, lasting impact on the conflict between the Jewish state and the Palestinians which remains unresolved to this day.
Our American cousins should know this β the UK withstood the Blitz and the IRA and we will withstand the current wave of terror attacks. You can either help us out or you can spread fake news about us. Make the right choice.
Church leaders, politicians and those from other faiths are uniting to pray for London today after at least seven people were killed and nearly 50 injured in a terrorist attack on London Bridge.
Suspected militants drove a van into pedestrians at high speed on London Bridge on Saturday night before stabbing revellers on nearby streets, killing at least six people and wounding nearly 50.
At least six people were killed by militants who drove a van at high speed into pedestrians on London Bridge and then stabbed revellers in the nearby Borough Market area on Saturday.
Some Muslim asylum seekers are claiming to be Christians just so they could be allowed to find refuge in Australia.
The eight Christians were killed by members of an Islamic State-linked group in the Philippines last month after refusing to recite the Shahada, an Islamic declaration of faith.
At least 36 people are dead and 54 injured in the Philippine capital of Manila after a lone gunman burst into a casino and opened fire.
Gay weddings in British churches are expected to be legalised for the first time next week with the Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) likely to change their definition of marriage.
The reason today is significant goes back to 1995, when the US Congress approved the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which requires that the American embassy be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Today, June 1, marks one of the six-month intervals in which the waiver has come up for being signed.
The teaching staff, many of whom are Korean-American missionaries, have to be careful of their actions.
A tiny fraction of international aid money goes towards protecting children from violence, Christian charities are claiming.
The priest taken hostage last week along with around a dozen parishioners by Islamist militants in the Philippines hasappeared in a video appealing for the government to halt military offensives in the troubled city of Marawi.
Violence erupted last Tuesday after a failed army raid to capture a top militant, Isnilon Hapilon, a leader of the Abu Sayyaf militant group who is on a US terror watch list and has also pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State group.
A Catholic missionary doctor from New York has won an esteemed international prize for his work around the clock inwar-torn Sudan.
Muslim neighbours helped to restore a church in Mosul which was left ruined after Kurdish and allied forces pushed Islamic State (ISIS) out of the Iraqi district.
Tearfund ambassador Martha Collison is famously known for being the youngest contestant on the BBC hit, Great British Bake Off. Now she is reaching out to help families in Malawi.
Bodies of what appeared to be executed civilians were found in a ravine outside a besieged Philippine city on Sunday as a six-day occupation by Islamist rebels resisting a military onslaught took a more sinister turn.
Trump flipped traditional US foreign policy upside down on his tour through the Middle East and Europe, coddling Middle Eastern leaders with questionable human rights records while demanding traditional European allies pay more for their defence.
Grief quickly turned to anger as funeral prayers at the Church of the Sacred Family in the village of Dayr Jarnous became a protest march with young men chanting as they carried a large wooden cross.
Iraqi armed forces launched an operation on Saturday to capture the last Islamic State-held enclave in Mosul, according to a military statement.
This evening marks the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, the annual occasion for Muslims to celebrate the first revelation of the Quran to the Prophet Mohammed.
Intense violence in the Central African Republic has claimed several victims including a church pastor allegedly killed for building a church.
Gunmen attacked buses and a truck taking a group of Coptic Christians to a monastery in southern Egypt on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding 25 others, witnesses and the Health Ministry said.
Muslim leaders in Manchester are expressing concern about a spike in Islamophobic hate after the suicide bombing that killed 22 on Monday night.
Chaos has descended on Marawi city in the Philippines as the government attempts to combat an Islamist terrorist insurgency.
A vigil has taken place on a Scottish Island which has been deeply affected by the Manchester terror attack.
A Filipino Catholic priest and some parishioners have been kidnapped and taken hostage by radical Islamic terrorists.
Julian Egan of International Alert on the unique opportunity represented by the meeting today of President Donald Trump and Pope Francis, two extremely different men.
How has the wider non-Muslim UK population responded to the Manchester bombing?
Her Majesty the Queen has expressed her shock and sadness at the terrorist attack in Manchester on Monday night that left at least 22 dead and 59 injured.
As things stand, it appears to have been a suicide bombing. Someone thought so little of his own life and the lives of his victims that he saw them as disposable.
Thousands of faithful Russian Orthodox Christians gathered in Moscow yesterday to venerate the relics of the revered Saint Nicholas β in a landmark moment for Orthodox-Catholic relations.
Several children are among the 22 dead after a suicide attack hit a teen pop concert in Manchester on Monday night.
Several children are among the 22 dead after a suicide attack hit a teen pop concert in Manchester on Monday night.
Greater Manchester Police said the lone male attacker, who died in the blast, was carrying an improvised explosive device which he detonated.
Pope Francis has offered prayers for peace and reconciliation for victims of sectarian violence in the Central African Republic, where 22 have been killed in the past week.
Pope Francis will create five new cardinals from outside Italy and the Vatican in a surprise move that blindsided even close confidants.
The Egyptian government has referred 48 people to its military courts on the charge of suspected involvement in three church bombing claimed by ISIS.
Dogged by controversy at home, President Donald Trump opened a nine-day foreign trip on Saturday in Saudi Arabia, looking to shift attention from a spiraling political firestorm over his firing of former FBI Director James Comey last week.
Here we look at three factors which mean Trump is determined to get round a table in Riyadh.
Will the evangelical Christian Vice President Mike Pence be President sooner, rather than later? Increasing numbers think he might be.
Two gay men accused in Indonesia of having sex with one another were both sentenced yesterday to 85 lashes in public.
Before he came to know the truth, Mahmoud thought that all Christians were "liars" who wanted to kill Muslims as this was what his elders told him.
Pope Francis has offered prayers for Emmanuel Macron, urging the new president to support the rich moral and spiritual traditions of the country of France β including Christianity.
A Catholic priest is among 68 people arrested in Italy in a bust on a large-scale mafia scam, which allegedly abused funds intended for needy refugees.
In some countries, such as Sweden, simply finding faith in Jesus is not enough. To successfully claim asylum, new Christians must master facts that few who are Christians from birth are even aware of.
In some countries, such as Sweden, simply finding faith in Jesus is not enough. To successfully claim asylum, new Christians must master facts that few who are Christians from birth are even aware of.
A Christian lawyer in Pakistan has been warned she will be killed if she does not stop defending people accused of blasphemy against Islam.
Those accused not only face criminal prosecution but also the risk of being killed extrajudicially by mobs who decide to take the law into their own hands.
Often it is in places of most human suffering that we hear stories of the greatest human resolve and resilience. South Sudan is one of those places.
In the wake of canonising two children whose visions of the Virgin Mary in Fatima in Portugal a century ago transfixed the world, Pope Francis has cast doubt on the veracity of visions that continue to this day in Bosnia.
A Zimbabwe pastor was eaten alive by three crocodiles after he attempted to show his congregation he could walk on water.
A story about Zimbabwe pastoreaten alive by three crocodiles after he attempted to show his congregation he could walk on water has been widely reported. The trouble is it never happened - the story is fake news.
Christian militias killed as many as 30 civilians over the weekend in escalating violence on the Central African Republic border with Congo.
Archaeologists digging the ancient city of Hippos-Sussita near the Sea of Galilee have unearthed a cluster of early churches
Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church two of its youngest saints on Saturday, canonising shepherd siblings believed to have seen the Madonna 100 years ago in a Portuguese town that is now a major pilgrimage site.
In the Lombardy region alone, 27 evangelical places of worship have been closed. This affected around 40 Christian communities because some were used by more than one.
Abdumonem Abdumawla and Pastor Hassan Abduraheem Taour, jailed with the Czech aid worker Petr Jasek, were released from prison in Khartoum yesterday,
The Mormon Church announced plans to pull as many as 185,000 youngsters from the Boy Scouts on Thursday as it looks to start its own scout programme.
Is Franklin Graham selling #FakeNews about Christian persecution? There seems to be great confusion about the statistics on global Christian martyrdom. Persecution matters, but we undermine it if we over-sell it.
The Russian atheist blogger who faced jail for playing Pokemon Go in a church has been handed a three-and-a-half year suspended sentence in a rebuff to prosecutors.
European rabbis have condemned a decision by the French-speaking Walloon parliament in Belgium to ban kosher and halal meat.
Pope Francis has sent a special video message to the people of Portugal as he prepares to travel to Fatima to canonise on Saturday two of the three children who saw six visions of a woman dressed in white, believed to have been the Virgin Mary.
For a man who has endured more than 80 meetings over 12 days during what has been his longest official visit as Archbishop of Canterbury in probably the most complicated region in the world, Justin Welby was in remarkably good spirits as he ended his tour of the Holy Land this afternoon.
Christian converts living in German refugee camps are reporting more cases of violent physical and verbal attacks from Muslim asylum seekers living among them.
The Republican president said he fired Comey, the top US law enforcement official, over his handling of an election-year email scandal involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Sudanese Christians were forced to stand and watch as their church was demolished despite government promises to stop targeting Christians.
The Christian governor of Jakarta has been sentenced to two years in prison by an Indonesian court that found him guilty of blasphemy.
A former Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that Christians face extinction in the Middle East.
Indonesia is expected to disband an Islamist group that calls for state adherence to Shariah law, saying such ideology undermines the notion of a secular state.
Every year on the Sunday before and after World Refugee Day on June 20, the WEA calls on churches to observe World Refugee Sunday with a worship service and prayer focused on displaced people around the world and in their own neighborhoods.
Coptic Pope Tawadros II on the faith of his land that endures, and on how most Egyptians are actually against the rising persecution of Christians
The head of ISIS in Afghanistan was killed by a joint US-Afghan operation on April 27, officials have confirmed.
An American soldier who died protecting Christians under intense fire from Islamic State (ISIS) fighters is being remembered for his courage and "incredible" heroism.
He was murdered by masked men in the town of El-Arish, from which he and his family, along with many other Christians, fled in February following a spate of murders.
Radical Fulani Islamic herdsmen have killed more people in Nigeria than any other terrorist and insurgent groups, but some are hearing the Gospel and embracing Jesus as their Saviour.
Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 whom they kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok three years ago in exchange for prisoners, the presidency said on Saturday.
As many as 1.5 million Christians have fled Iraq since the rise of Islamic State, according to an Iraqi MP.
The Archbishop of Canterbury made a last minute visit to Gaza on Thursday as part of his official trip to the Holy Land.
Staff at a hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, have gone on strike after a Christian member of staff was slapped after refusing to attend a morning reading of the Quran.
As the French presidential election faces its decisive second round this Sunday, a poll has shown that so far Protestant Christians have shown the highest support for Emmanuel Macron of any faith group.
Ed Cyzewski on how the events of May 4th offer a kind of microcosm of the Trump administration and why this may be so dangerous for our freedom in the months to come.
This morning social media went into overdrive with speculation about what the surprise announcement from Buckingham Palace would be. But should we have joined in the fevered specualtion?
Australia is favouring Christian refugees over Muslims according to data obtained by the New York Times. Like other Western countries, Australia has taken in a number of refugees from Syria and Iraq, but unlike others, seems to be offering a better chance to Christians.
A pastor has been found guilty of murder after an exorcism in remote Nicaragua led to the death of a 25-year-old mother of two.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on religious liberties designed to ease a ban on political activity by churches and other tax-exempt institutions.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby visited some of the holiest sites in Christianity, Judaism and Islam on Thursday as part of a 12-part tour of the Middle East.
The Anglican Church in Ireland will debate a motion on same-sex relationships this week, calling on bishops to approve thanksgiving prayers for gay couples.
Three polls on Saturday showed a rise in support for the opposition Labour party, although the governing Conservative party maintained a commanding lead.
Pope Francis warned against religious fanaticism on Saturday, wrapping up a brief trip to Cairo where he urged Muslim leaders to unite against violence by Islamic militants threatening to rid the Middle East of its ancient Christian communities.
Two US special operations forces soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday may have been struck by friendly fire.
Instead of asking for food and other essential goods, flood victims have asked for Bibles to replace the ones they lost in the floods devastating the country.
Leobard "Chito" Aguilar was once a terrorist, a feared rebel leader, and a notorious drug trafficker. But he found God in his darkest moments and now he has become a courageous Christian pastor, defending his flock in Mexico.
In one predominantly-Muslim Middle East country, Christians are free to express their love for God.
A Russian state prosecutor asked a court to jail a blogger who played Pokemon Go inside a church for three-and-a-half years on Friday, saying he was guilty of inciting religious hatred.
In an ironic twist of fate, at least three Islamic State (ISIS) militants were killed by a herd of stampeding boars while the militants were setting up an ambush in northern Iraq.
The offices of televangelist Benny Hinn have been visited by agents from the US Inland Revenue Service and the Postal Service.
Two hundred people met in Spain in a public reading of the Bible to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
A man has been sentenced to death on charges of apostasy in Saudi Arabia after losing two appeals, according to reports.
Ancient Caesarea is being excavated and made accessible to visitors in a major new project.
Ancient Caesarea is being excavated and made accessible to visitors in a major new project.
An elderly Italian bishop has retired early in order to become an evangelist.
The German evangelical church has issued an apology for its role in Namibian genocide at the start of the 20th century.
The two church bombings that killed dozens in Egypt on Palm Sunday were aimed at targeting unity among Muslims and Christians in the most populous Arab nation, the Coptic Patriarch, Tawadros II said yesterday.
As part of the British Asparagus Festival Worcester Cathedral has held a service of blessing for asparagus. And it has been the butt of asparagus jokes ever since.
As part of the British Asparagus Festival Worcester Cathedral has held a service of blessing for asparagus. And it has been the butt of asparagus jokes ever since.
One of the most depressing things about the current general election campaign is the amplification on social media of our worst instincts.
Chinese officials have banned dozens of baby names with a religious meaning in an ongoing crackdown that could lead to families being denied education and healthcare.
Evangelicals and pentecostals are more likely to be persecuted for their faith than others Christians, a new report is claiming.
North Korea has arrested an American professor who worked at a university with strong Christian links in Pyongyang as he attempted to leave the country.
Christianity could be outlawed in Ethiopia for smaller congregations and house churches where a worshippers meet for less formal prayer or smaller services.
Pope Francis will not travel in a bullet-proof vehicle when he travels to Egypt later this week, in spite of the risk to his life from Islamist extremists.
Archaeologists may have unknowingly uncovered the earliest surviving depiction of the Virgin Mary.
North Korea said on Sunday it was ready to sink a U.S. aircraft carrier to demonstrate its military might, as two Japanese navy ships joined a U.S. carrier group for exercises in the western Pacific.
The killing of a policeman by a suspected Islamist militant pushed national security to the top of the French political agenda on Friday, two days before the presidential election.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday the United States would honour a controversial refugee deal with Australia, under which the United States would resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers, a deal President Donald Trump had described as "dumb".
Hannah Bladon, the British student stabbed to death in Jerusalem, was passionate, driven and an active member of her local church, her family have said.
The Archbishop of Canterbury preached a powerful Easter message today on the power of the resurrection to deliver hope even in the face of pain, despair and death.
The US Vice President Mike Pence, a deeply committed Christian, is to visit South Korea on Easter Day as tensions escalate over the nuclear testing programme of its neighbour North Korea.
One of the actors has had his hands nailed every year for the last 31 years.
The Australian paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale, already convicted of abusing 53 children, has pleaded guilty to 20 further charges againt another 11 children.
The Australian paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale, already convicted of abusing 53 children, has pleaded guilty to 20 further charges againt another 11 children.
For many years Syrian forces occupied Lebanon, but now with the war in Syria the tables have turned and a huge number of refugees have flooded into this tiny country.
A priest is being asked to take a break from his parish in the Italian town of Montesilvano after some in his congregation reportedly stormed out of Mass when he openly criticised the progressive agenda of Pope Francis.
Leading members of Catholic and Protestant churches in Hungary are backing an online petition calling for church leaders to follow the example of Jesus Christ and serve the Gospel rather than the State in the way they respond to the refugee crisis.
Coptic churches in the south of Egypt said they would not hold Easter celebrations this year, in mourning of the 45 Coptic Christians killed in the two Palm Sunday bomb attacks.
The evangelist Franklin Graham has hit back at his former ally Saeed Abedini, the pastor who has claimed that Graham did very little to help him since his release from an Iranian prison last January.
Pope Francis has opened a free launderette in Rome, in the latest of a series of moves aimed at helping poor andhomeless people that has included help with housing, meals, showers, haircuts and medical care.
The Zhejiang provincial government had instructed local authorities to install security cameras in churches with the aim of helping them monitor religious activities.
Egyptians have been paying their respects to a female police officer who was killed when she stopped an Islamic extremist suicide bomber from entering a Coptic church in Alexandria on Sunday.
A Christian from Ohio who survived explosions during combat in Afghanistan and Iraq died saving the life of a young boy while doing missionary work in Indonesia.
Palm Sunday is one of the most joyous days in the city of Jerusalem β and this year, unusually both the Western and Eastern Churches are celebrating Easter at the same time.
Today the Archbishop of Canterbury joined Christian Today in an exclusive interview shared on Facebook Live. He shared about the struggles and joys of prayer, the meaning of the resurrection and about how Christians can share their faith with their friends.
At least 36 people have been killed and over 100 injured in two bombings at Coptic churches in Egypt, during the Palm Sunday services. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks, and Church leaders have publicly mourned the loss of life.
Swedish police have arrested a man they suspect drove a beer delivery truck which rammed into a crowd in central Stockholm on Friday, killing four people and wounding 15 in what they described as a terror crime.
The pastor of an online church in Iran was able to lead a young Muslim drug addict and his mother to Jesus, and it all started with a phone call.
A court in Tunisia has sentenced a British DJ to a year in prison after he featured a Muslim call to prayer in a dance remix.
A majority Americans are concerned about violence against Jews for the first time, according to a new poll.
A Chilean nun is suing her convent after they forced her to leave when she was raped and became pregnant.
At least three people were murdered in Sweden today in yet another terror attack in which a vehicle was used to mow down pedestrians.
The depravity unleashed by the Syrian war throws into sharp relief the deep malaise that has gripped the international community. As world leaders line up to apportion blame, the reality is that Syria represents a collective political failure.
A Pakistani public prosecutor who allegedly offered freedom to 42 on-trial Christians if they converted to Islam has been removed from his position.
The death toll in the Idlib province of northern Syria has risen to at least 70 after victims were exposed to a toxic gas that survivors said was dropped from warplanes, as a diplomatic row grew over the carnage.
Pope Francis today welcomed four British imams who came with Cardinal Vincent Nichols for a private meeting in the Vatican to promote dialogue and close collaboration on social action in the UK.
A group of 15 Chinese Christians have been detained after more than 20 police officers raided a house church in theSichuan province in the south-west of the country.
A young deaf girl from a Central Asian country was badly beaten by her Muslim family after they found out that she is now a follower of Jesus Christ.
The number of babies born to Muslims is expected to exceed the number born to Christians in under 20 years, according to a new Pew Research report. In addition, Christians are dying out faster than other religions.
A Christian convert who has been languishing in an Iranian prison for years now will have to endure three more years of deprivation.
The hope among Christians in Iraq that God will restore their land ravaged by the Islamic State (ISIS) appears to be starting to bear fruit.
Unwanted human embryos adopted by couples who could not conceive and born into their new family are now being reconnected with their biological parents.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of outcast children are rejected by their families, forced in to homelessness and trafficking, and are accused of witchcraft.
A Jewish community association in northern Sweden has decided to close following a series of threats from far-rightactivists, seven years after it opened.
Southern Baptists are launching funding efforts to address a chronic under-representation of ethnic minorities in overseas mission trips.
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited the Vatican in Rome today and met Pope Francis for the first time.
More that 50 people have been killed in Syria after a hospital was bombed while treating victims of a chemical nerve gas attack.
A group of Catholic aid agencies is calling on Western countries to do more to help fleeing Syrians, as more than five million people have been forced to cross borders and register as refugees in neighbouring countries.
Two persecuted Christian women sacrificed their own lives to try and save others.
Pope Francis visited an embattled region of Italy on Sunday that has been rebuilt after being devastated by earthquakes five years ago.
At least 10 people were killed today in explosions in two train carriages at metro stations in St. Petersburg, Russian authorities have said.
Heavy rains caused several rivers to overflow, pushing sediment and rocks onto buildings and roads in the capital of southwestern Putumayo province and immobilizing cars in several feet of mud.
Twenty people have been tortured then murdered in a gruesome massacre at a Pakistani Sufi shrine in Punjab At least four others suffered injuries in the attack at the shrine, believed to have been carried out by the custodian.
Christians in Pakistan who are on trial for murder have been told by a prosecutor they could be acquitted if they renounce their faith and convert to Islam.
Some evangelical groups in Switzerland are unhappy after a number of Christian youth organisations were left without support by the government.
ISIS crimes must be documented and evidence collected to allow for prosecutions, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has said.
A young Christian in Pakistan was shot and killed in the street allegedly for refusing the demands of an influential Muslim.
A Christian pastor in Kenya who camped at a mortuary for four days in the belief that his wife would rise from the dead like Lazarus has been left disappointed after the miracle failed to occur.
A judge in Canada has thrown out a $100 million-plus class-action defamation lawsuit brought by homosexual activists against a Christian group.
Faith leaders including the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby have signed a letter to The Times insisting that terror will never succeed in driving them apart.
The health of Maryam Naghash Zargaran, the Christian convert in prison in Iran, deteriorated badly last week and she has lost a lot of weight.
Quantum physicists believe they have found at least a partial scientific proof of God following the discovery of a quantum portal into a separate, dark and parallel universe.
In a sign of its increasing desperation, the Islamic State (ISIS) is dispatching suicide bombers even as young as seven years old to try and hold off the advancing Iraqi forces besieging the ISIS-held city of Mosul.
Christians from around the world have joined together to do something about the humanitarian crisis facing vulnerable Jewish people in the former Soviet Union, and have blessed them with their love and support.
Christians from around the world have joined together to do something about the humanitarian crisis facing vulnerable Jewish people in the former Soviet Union, and have blessed them with their love and support.
Thousands of Syrians fleeing Islamic State, the Assad regime and other threats have come to Britain where Christians have played a central role in helping them stay and start a new life.
Christians in Iraq are faced with running out of the supplies that are keeping them alive, the aid co-ordinator for the Catholic archdiocese of Erbil told World Watch Monitor.
As it continues to lose ground to Iraqi-led coalition forces, the Islamic State (ISIS) is lashing back at the remaining civilians in the areas it still controls, using even more brutal measures to intimidate and coerce them.
God is capable of transforming even people with the hardest of hearts, and this is exactly what He did to Bashir Mohammad, a former jihadist who once believed that killing Christians was the right thing to do.
With all the headlines Islamic State is still capable of generating, it is in the end-game of its dream of an Islamic caliphate.
Many voters who elected him appeared largely willing to give him a pass on the collapse of his campaign promise to overhaul the US healthcare system, stressing his short time in office.
Troubles are piling up on the beleaguered Christians in Nigeria. Already the target of persecution by the savage Boko Haram terrorist group, the Christians who have been displaced from their homes by the Islamist extremists are also being subjected to discrimination in the displacement camps run by local Muslim organisations, the Christian persecution watchdog Open Doors U.K. has revealed.
A prominent evangelist in Uganda foiled another attempt to silence him when a judge dropped cases filed against him, which were aimed at defaming him and stoking Muslim anger on him for providing refuge to Christian converts, sources said.
President Donald Trump suffered a stunning political setback on Friday in a Congress controlled by his own party when Republican leaders pulled legislation to overhaul the US healthcare system.
Hundreds of children are being kidnapped and murdered in Uganda every year because of the thriving child sacrifice business in that East African country, a pastor has revealed.
The #PrayFor hashtag has become a universal, compassionate response to terror events around the world. It reaches beyond any individual faith, even to atheists, in empowering individuals at times when fear and feelings of powerlessness can become almost overwhelming.
Christians will respond to the attack in Westminster by sharing the peace, being in relationship and resisting evil...
Christians will respond to the attack in Westminster by sharing the peace, being in relationship and resisting evil...
No evidence has been found that World Vision siphoned off taxpayers money to the Palestinian terror organisation Hamas, a government review has found.
An intriguing insight into how First World War British soldiers in Palestine spent their leisure time has been revealed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).
Christians who have left their homes in Mosul might not be able to safely return to the city since the Islamic State (ISIS) has raised a new generation of child radicals who are now guarding the city.
The Vatican has announced that the Catholic annual Good Friday Collection will this year benefit the beleaguered Christian communities of the Holy Land.
A policeman has shot an intruder outside the Houses of Parliament after a violent incident at the heart of Westminster.
A policeman has shot an intruder outside the Houses of Parliament after a violent incident at the heart of Westminster.
A policeman has shot an intruder outside the Houses of Parliament after a violent incident at the heart of Westminster.
A policeman has shot an intruder outside the Houses of Parliament after a violent incident at the heart of Westminster.
A video allegedly showing anti-Christian propaganda broadcast on North Korean state TV has been shared online.
An ancient colossus discovered in a working-class district of Cairo might be the work of a Pharaoh who ruled in biblical times, scholars now believe.
A stashed collection of ancient bronze coins that may have belonged to Christians fleeing invading Persian forces has been found on the highway to Jerusalem in an archaeological dig.
Tens of thousands of Christians in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, have been forced to abandon their homes and take refuge on foreign soil to escape the long-running campaign of persecution by the government.
Bangladesh police shot and killed a suspected militant who tried to enter a security checkpost on a motorcycle armed with explosives today, the latest in a string of security incidents since a deadly attack on a cafe in July.
I have a lot of fears. The sound a missile makes before it hits. The smell of gunpowder mixed with blood. The possibility I will never see my sisters or childhood friends ever again.
"He was dead. He was blue and dead." This was what Matthew Cunningham told local station KBOI in Boise, Idaho, referring to his 22-month-old son, Matty.
Evangelical Christian ministries in Alabama in the United States have pledged to raise $100,000 to pay for security at a Jewish community centre.
Here we highlight seven of the most important dates and incidents in Church history which have made us what we are today, and which possibly point the way to the future...
The worldwide Church has a long way to go before it can be accused of being bold for change in the way it treats women and girls.
Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa are being denied access to vital aid as a famine affecting millions sweeps across the region.
China appears to be intensifying its crackdown on foreign Christian missionaries, arresting and detaining two more South Korean pastors for allegedly attempting to smuggle North Korean defectors out of China.
The East Africa Food Crisis Appeal by 13 charities comprising the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) includes the Christian groups Christian Aid, Cafod, Tearfund and World Vision. But why is famine spreading across the region?
France has issued a terror attack warning after eight people were injured in a school shooting in the southern town of Grasse on Thursday.
A Christian pastor has found one of the largest diamonds discovered in the world so far.
Christianity is making such significant gains in one Muslim-majority nation in South Asia that local evangelists are now envisioning the day when their country would become a Christian nation.
Iranian government agents have arrested two newly baptised Christiansβa mother and her sonβseizing their Bibles and other Christian books.
A former radical Islamist turned Christian evangelist is warning the West of another form of jihad being waged in the education front.
A prominent U.S. prosecutor said the Trump administration fired him on Saturday after he refused to step down, adding a discordant note to what is normally a routine changing of top attorneys when a new president takes office.
A Jordanian soldier who was convicted of killing seven Israeli school girls two decades ago has been released from prison after serving his sentence, family sources said on Sunday.
Pope Francis will visit Colombia in September, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Friday, stopping in Bogota, Medellin, Villavicencio and Cartagena during a four-day trip.
In Mexico, people go to church at their own risk.
An Islamic jihadist group is pushing a campaign to further spread Islam in Spain with the ultimate objective of re-conquering the European country by urging migrant Muslim men to marry local Christian women.
Tens of thousands of children across East Africa could die from starvation unless the world acts soon to stop the famine affecting millions in the region, a charity has warned.
A Christian pastor in Nigeria lost his eyesight after law enforcers tortured him after accusing him of using counterfeit money, a charge he flatly denied.
A Christian pastor in Nigeria says he lost his eyesight after law enforcers tortured him after accusing him of using counterfeit money, a charge he flatly denied.
Compassion International will withdraw all of its operations in India next week, leaving 150,000 children worse off.
Evangelical churches in Portugal are on the decline, according to recent reports.
Two Christian pastors in Vietnam recently had a taste of Vietnamese-style persecution when they were kidnapped, stripped, robbed and beaten with metal rods by a group of men who they suspect were working for the police.
Even though she was blind, a Christian woman named Mariyam Petrayus from western Mosul bravely stood up to Islamic State (ISIS) militants and refused to convert to Islam despite the threat of death.
Even though she was blind, a Christian woman named Mariyam Petrayus from western Mosul bravely stood up to Islamic State (ISIS) militants and refused to convert to Islam despite the threat of death.
A high-performance hijab is being developed by Nike, the sportswear giant, for launch next year.
An astronaut who recently converted to Catholicism has described his successful attempt to receive the Eucharist in space.
The Sahara Desert was once lush and green with high rainfall ratesβa finding that fits the story told in Genesisβa new research showed.
Reading about the atrocities being committed by the Islamic State (ISIS) is one thing, but witnessing them is many times more shocking and horrifying.
Assassinated cleric Oscar Romero is being considered for canonisation with the Vatican looking into a possible miracle.
Christians living under the yoke of Islamist extremism in Libya face even greater danger following reports that the Islamic State (ISIS) and al-Qaeda have formed an unholy alliance in the southern part of the country.
Malaysia has arrested six foreigners and one Malaysian for suspected links to militant groups including Islamic State, the police chief said on Sunday.
Showing no emotion, the gunmen killed her husband and son and then calmly checked their names from a hit-list in his pocket: Two more Christians dead, more to go.
This American pastor deals with smugglersβand he has saved hundreds of lives because of that.
Fears are growing for a Malaysian pastor who has been missing for almost three weeks. 62-year-old Raymond Koh Keng Joo was abducted by masked men on 13 February.
Jesus Christ is in Mosul, and the Islamic State (ISIS) is powerless to stop Him.
Islam is the fasting growing religion in the world, and will be the largest in the world by 2070, new research suggests.
Five Chinese Christians are being jailed for buying and selling Bible devotionals in an ongoing state crackdown on religious freedom.
It turns out that the Islamic State (ISIS) is not only a group composed of ruthless killers and savages but also of monstrous cannibals.
The iron cage that has protected the tomb of Jesus for 70 years is gone.
The Islamic State (ISIS) has gone to the dogsβfiguratively and even literally.
What motivates suicide bombers to claim their own lives and wreak havoc and destruction? One family, whose son ended his own life in a suicide bomb attack against Iraqi security forces last year, got the answer to this question after he sent them a farewell note before he launched his suicide bomb attack.
This week in Amman, Jordan, World Vision is partnering with Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Cisco and other big tech companies to try to bring a new approach to educating the many thousands of child refugees who have seen their futures sacrificed to war.
Islamist extremism is rising in the Philippines, prompting Christians to sound the alarm, the World Watch Monitor (WWM) reported.
Powerful tornadoes ripped through southern Mississippi late last month, bringing death and destruction to many places.
The Sistine Chapel at the Vatican has been given a digital make-over with thousands of photographs taken for the first time since 1994 in a move which will aid future restorations.
A Czech Christian aid worker who has been detained in Sudanese prison since December 2015 has now been released and pardoned.
Concern is growing for a US Christian missionary kidnapped in Niger more than four months ago. Jeff Woodke, 55, who worked for Jeunesse en Mission Entraide et Developpement, part of Youth With a Mission, was abducted by armed men from his home in Abalak in northern Niger.
A Chinese pastor has been detained and the church building illegally tampered with after the congregation refused to come under state surveillance.
Catholics in a rush in Ireland on Ash Wednesday will be able to receive the traditional blessing with the sign of the cross in ash on their foreheads in a drive-through form after an innovation by a church.
People who try to discourage women from having abortions are now virtually considered criminals in France.
Seven new Earths? As in seven new habitable worlds?
After the deaths, tortures and horrific extremes of Islamic State, a giant cross has risen on a hill outside Mosul in Iraq, an extraordinary symbol of the return of life and hope.
Church leaders in South Sudan have urged international intervention in the region as millions suffer starvation and conflict.
Amid the crisis in Mosul, 50 people whose employment had been destroyed by ISIS have found work and hope with the help of the charity Open Doors.
The family of an 18-year-old Egyptian Christian woman who has been missing since January 26 has accused the police of complicity in her kidnapping after they failed to act against an alleged suspect who admitted involvement.
The family of an 18-year-old Egyptian Christian woman who has been missing since January 26 has accused the police of complicity in her kidnapping after they failed to act against an alleged suspect who admitted involvement.
More Christians are expected to be targeted as the persecution grows.
Christians groups in Norway have launched a campaign to employ undocumented migrants, despite the practice being illegal.
An Islamic leader in Bangladesh has promised to provide protection to Christians and Hindus.
An actual search for the Ark of the Covenant is set to begin.
Milo Yiannopoulos, the controversial, libertarian, gay editor of Breitbart tech, has been dis-invited as a speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference this week following his comments on relationships between older and younger men.
U.S. lawmakers are being hailed by religious rights advocacy groups for their show of unity in calling for the release of a detained pastor in Turkey.
ISIS released a video yesterday which called for the slaughter of Egyptian Christians, and showed the last statement from the man allegedly responsible for the Cairo church bombing in December.
No to Christian missionaries, but yes to local churches β but only under strict government control. China has once again underscored this policy following the arrest of four South Korean Christian missionaries and the expulsion of at least 32 others last week.
Humanitarian charities are poised for disaster as Iraqi forces close in on ISIS-held western Mosul, which still holds an estimated 750,000 civilians.
The figures are mind-boggling. Since the Islamic militant group Boko Haram began its campaign of terror in 2009, about 100,000 people have been killed, consisting of both Christians and Muslims.
An Egyptian Christian has been gunned down on the way to work by suspected ISIS militants in Sinai, Egypt, the second killing of a Christian in under a week in the area.
All three men, along with their pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, were charged with acting against national security but the three lay Christians were also charged with consuming alcoholic communion wine.
The move is partially symbolic, given that there is currently no State of Palestine β although that remains a goal of some Palestinian politicians.
Has the United Nations turned its back on persecuted Christians? The answer is a definitive "yes" as far as the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International is concerned, the World Watch Monitor reported.
The US-based pastor Saeed Abedini, who was released from an Iranian prison last year, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to violating a restraining order taken out by his estranged wife, Naghmeh.
"Till death do us part." Those were the unspoken words as she held the hand of her dying husband before she herself, five days later, bid goodbye to this world. As fate would have it, the couple died of the same disease: cancer.
A Christian pastor has been killed and two churches destroyed in brutal revenge attacks by Muslim rebels in the Central African Republic.
Meanwhile, a significant proportion of practising Christians believes in cohabitation, according to the poll.
"Get out of this town or face a massacre." It was a warning like no other. While Islamist extremists have distinguished themselves for their savagery, the one group that raised the warning did not come from their ranks.
God truly answers prayers, a young man from Syria recently found out.
She had to make a choice: the devil or the deep blue sea.
A Christian man in India has died after he and his wife were forced to spend the night in a cold pond for refusing to deny Christ.
A shut down church in Indonesia has been told that it may reopen β if the church agrees to share their land with a mosque.
If only the two billion people in the world lacking access to formal financial services could reach this funding.
One miraculous healing has fuelled a Christian revival in Vietnam, a communist-ruled Southeast Asian country.
Everything around her became pitch black in November 2015 when she completely lost her vision.
US federal immigration agents arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least four states this week in what officials on Friday called routine enforcement actions.
A rebel pastor leading the anti-Mugabe protest movement in Zimbabwe has been freed on bail.
Having sex slaves has apparently become the norm in the Islamic State (ISIS).
On his third try at suicide, this pastor succeededβall because of a woman. And he even filmed his own death.
More than 60 South Korean Christians are being expelled from China after they helped North Korean defectors.
Franklin Graham is urging Donald Trump to issue a controversial executive order protecting religious freedom, despite liberals being "up in arms" at the prospect.
As many as 13,000 people were hanged by the Syrian government in a campaign of extra-judicial executions, according to a chilling new report by Amnesty International.
Christians in Egypt have now been granted right to take leave from work to go on pilgrimage, according to a high court ruling at the weekend.
Acting with impunity, a gang of Hindu extremists kicked and punched an Indian pastor who they waylaid on the road late last month, nearly killing him.
"Save us!" Two pastors cried out to Jesus after they were arrested and locked up in a secret jail somewhere in the Middle East just last week, Bibles for Mideast reported.
This message has been sent to U.S. President Donald Trump: Help free a detained pastor in Turkey.
The Catholic Bishop of Padua in Italy has said a Catholic priest is likely to be defrocked over claims that he organised orgies on church property, had over 30 lovers and took some to French nudist retreats.
The High Religious Committee of Morocco has retracted a previous ruling that apostasy from Islam is punishable by death, and Muslims may now change their religion.
A Pakistani Christian has been bailed after more than three years of being tortured in prison without conviction.
US President Donald Trump has responded with a furious Twitter tirade after a US appeal court has denied the emergency appeal from the US Department of Justice to restore his 90-day travel ban on travellers from seven Muslim countries and on refugees.
Turkish police on Sunday detained some 400 suspected members of Islamic State in anti-terror raids in six provinces, state media said, the biggest roundup to target the organisation in Turkey.
They knew they would be severely punished for refusing to obey orders. Despite this, two child soldiers of the Islamic State (ISIS) bravely dared to refuse a direct order from their superiors for them to carry out the execution of two civilian captives.
Her family says there was probable evidence to prove she was kidnapped. There were also signs that she was raped before she was murdered. And yet the police in Pakistan insisted that Tania, 12-year Christian schoolgirl, committed suicide by jumping into a canal.
How far did you have to walk to get clean water this morning? For me, it was 10 feet. A cool glass of life-sustaining water was enjoyed without a second thought.
A villager in Siberia has constructed an entire Russian Orthodox church out of snow.
Ukrainian authorities and pro-Russian separatists accused each other on Thursday of carrying out fresh artillery attacks on frontline residential areas in eastern Ukraine.
"Thank God I am well" was the message from rebel Zimbabwean pastor Evan Mawarire that flew around social media after his arrest on Wednesday.
The Zimbabwean pastor who fled to the US after arrest for high profile protest against President Robert Mugabe, has been arrested upon his return home.
Donald Trump is coming under pressure from both sides of the aisle to press ahead quickly with his controversial proposal to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem β and to do it by stealth.
An Iraqi Christian leader and a senior academic have warned that Christians may not return to Mosul for years to come, if at all, as some residents of the war-torn city celebrate their new freedom from Islamic State.
A Czech missionary has been sentenced to 24 years in a Sudanese jail after he was found guilty of spying and inciting hatred.
A Czech missionary has been sentenced to 24 years in a Sudanese jail after he was found guilty of spying and inciting hatred.
In a span of two weeks, five Coptic Christians in Egypt met exactly the same horrible fate: brutally murdered with their throats slashed.
Boko Haram has virtually turned babies into bombs.
Iraq plans to lobby against new restrictions on travel to the United States by Iraqis, arguing the two countries need to preserve their alliance against Islamic State...
A Pakistani court acquitted 112 suspects in the 2013 torching of hundreds of Christian homes in the eastern city of Lahore
Iraqis who say their lives are in danger because they worked with the U.S. government in Iraq fear their chances of finding refuge in the United States may vanish under a new order signed on Friday by President Donald Trump.
A federal judge in Texas on Friday halted state regulations that would require abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetal tissue through burial or cremation...
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence fired up tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists who gathered for the 44th March for Life
President Donald Trump on Friday put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily barred travelers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries
India and the United Arab Emirates have issued a strong warning to countries which support religion-inspired terrorism.
The pastor was caught in the act, with his pants down literally. And he was nearly gunned down as a result.
In this 99.5 percent Sunni Muslim-majority African country, mere suspicion that one has converted to Christianity could lead to instant death by way of public beheading without trial.
The Christian cross has been removed from the club crest of Spanish football team Real Madrid on its clothing sold in areas in the Middle East.
A delegation of Vatican officials has visited Aleppo, expressing the solidarity of Pope Francis with the people in the war-torn region.
An Indian Christian is in a coma from suffering a brain haemorrhage hours after he was interrogated by police.
If people laughed when Donald Trump famously claimed that climate change is a Chinese hoax to keep American companies uncompetitive, they are not laughing now.
A Russian Orthodox priest plans to become the first to dive to the depths of the Pacific Ocean, and plant an Orthodox cross and Russian flag there.
Imam Ismaeel Chartier has pledged to risk being sent to jail as part of efforts to provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Thousands of people across India held a special day of prayer this weekend for the release of Father Tom Uzhunnalil, a priest who was kidnapped by Islamists last year in Yemen.
A Japanese samurai who gave up his status to follow Jesus will be beautified in a ceremony in Japan on 7 February.
When it comes to brutality, it would be extremely hard to beat the Islamic State (ISIS).
Israeli occupation of Palestinian land is fuelling poverty, misery and resentment, an alliance Catholic charities are warning in a new report launched on Monday.
The ominous shadow of Islamist extremism appears to be looming larger in Africa.
A Muslim man murdered a Catholic pensioner while he robbed her house and left her body with her hands tied and holding a cross, a court in Germany has heard.
The miraculous healing of one woman in Hanoi led to a remarkable Christian awakening in predominantly Buddhist Vietnam led by a farmer named Dao Sanh.
Not every Muslim hates Christians. Even as the war perpetrated by ISIS continues in Mosul, one Muslim man had the courage to stand up for his Christian brothers and sisters by building a cross for them in a bombed-up church.
Islamic State militants have destroyed one of the most famous monuments in the ancient city of Palmyra, the Tetrapylon, and the facade of its Roman Theatre, Syrian antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters on Friday.
As one president cedes power peacefully in the USA, on the other side of the world it is taking 16 neighbouring countries and the might of the UN to try and persuade Yahya Jammeh to do the same.
Zhang Xiuhong, a deacon at the Guiyang Huoshi Church in Guizhou province, is scheduled to stand trial next week over allegations of "illegal business operations".
The controversial President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has written a personal letter to Pope Francis saying that the country values its "special relations" with the Holy See.
Like a scene from a horror movie, the faces of the thousands of unborn children he killed came back to haunt him in his dreams.
Nearly six years after the civil war erupted, Syria continues to be awash in the blood of its helpless and innocent people, Christians among them, with no end in sight.
A small Christian community in Sri Lanka is not giving up on their worship services even after a group of Buddhist radicals destroyed their church last week.
Opus Dei, the predominantly lay Catholic organisation which is surrounded by myth and intrigue, will begin the process of electing a new leader on Saturday following the death of its previous prelate last month.
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Pope Francis could make a historic pastoral visit to Northern Ireland next year.
Three powerful earthquakes struck central Italy within an hour today, rocking the snow-covered mountainous region where nearly 300 people were killed last year.
As Iraqi Christians begin to return to their homes to asses the damage left in the wake of Islamic State, they have found churches desecrated, burned and grafittied.
One man changed the face of America after eight years in power. Without doubt, that man is outgoing President Barack Obama.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), Patriarch Kirill, has been invited to visit Syria by Muslim religious leaders and the religious affairs ministry there.
A Muslim mob accused of stripping a Christian grandmother naked and parading her in the streets in Egypt have had the case against them dropped, reports say.
Counter-terrorism service (CTS) troops drove the jihadists back inside the strategically located university complex and seized clusters of buildings on Saturday.
Pope Francis has appealed for more care for child migrants on the World Day for Migrants and Refugees.
Like angels from heaven, hundreds of "prayer warriors" have descended on Washington D.C. to undertake a crucial mission: protect U.S. President-elect Donald Trump by building a "prayer shield" around him ahead of his Jan. 20 inauguration.
Emily Byers walked down the aisle and vowed to love and serve her husband until her last breath. So what makes this wedding ceremony different from others?
Should we have an official state Church? What does it mean for the Christian faith?
Anti-Christian propaganda posted in churches over the Christmas period has been condemned by a senior Sudanese government minister.
An Egyptian Christian couple were found dead on Coptic Christmas Day with their throats cut, according to World Watch Monitor.
The terrible situation faced by refugees seeking sanctuary in Europe has been laid bare by Christian Aid. The relief organisation says that Refugees in Green and Bulgaria are in a desperate situation.
A university in Scotland has issued a warning to its theology students, saying that studying the crucifixion of Jesus Christ could upset them, the Daily Mail reported.
"Unsubstantiated" reports about President-elect Donald Trump are contained in a two-page memo appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Christian persecution is rising rapidly across Asia, with a dramatic increase in India and surrounding countries, according to Open Doors.
Christian persecution is rising rapidly across Asia, with a dramatic increase in India and surrounding countries, according to Open Doors.
A Chinese megapastor has been arrested on charges of embezzling funds, according to persecution watchdog China Aid.
Fears are mounting that two priests have been killed by the Myanmar army after they disappeared on Christmas Eve.
Terrorist attacks have prompted another 5,000 Jews to leave France for Israel, the latest figures have revealed.
According to The Voice of the Martyrs Canada, "tremendous growth is taking place in the lives of new believers who were Muslims".
The aquittal of two men accused of raping a Catholic nun in India is a "grave injustice," the Archbishop of Mumbai said.
Not all Christians will return to Mosul after it is liberated from Islamic State, according to a Chaldean priest ministering to refugees from the city.
Ten people were killed in a Christian village in northern Nigeria after an attack by Islamic Fulani militants at the weekend.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has said he has put aside 100,000 Egyptian pounds to build a large church.
Muslim parents will be forced to send their children into mixed swimming lessons after a European Court of Human Rights ruling on Tuesday.
Ismail was just 14 when Islamic State overran Bartella, a Christian majority village in the Nineveh Plains just nine miles from Mosul, where he and his mother lived.
Divine intervention just in time for Christmas saved the life of a five-month-old infant who desperately needed a liver transplant.
The man who opened fire in Fort Lauderdale, killing five people, months after he showed up at an FBI office behaving erratically is an Iraq war veteran. Police have not ruled out terrorism.
Today marks the celebration of the Epiphany. Across the world, particularly in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions, the day is a time of fervent, colourful celebration and display.
The Christian Association of Nigeria is calling for this Sunday to be marked as a national day of mourning for Christians killed by Muslim Fulani terrorists in Southern Kaduna State.
House church pastor Yang Hua, also known as Li Guozhi, was sentenced in Guizhou province on a charge of "divulging state secrets", according to China Aid.
Women from North Korea are being trafficked across the border into north-east China and face abuse and exploitation β but a Christian ministry is reaching out to help them.
The girl, identified as Rakiya Abubkar Gali, had a six-month-old baby with her, a spokesperson said, and was discovered while soldiers were investigating suspected members of Boko Haram.
Pope Francis has spoken movingly about those who lose a child and the need to "share their desperation" in a general audience sermon based on the Old Testament figure of Rachel.
A Congressional panel has hit out at Planned Parenthood in a report highlighting abuses and possibly criminal violations in the foetal tissue trade between abortion clinics and tissue harvesters.
Egypt has arrested four people suspected of involvement in the Cairo church bombing that killed 27 people, its interior ministry announced on Wednesday.
Jill Saward, a committed Christian, was raped by burglars in her family home β a vicarage β when she was 21.
Is it possible that hundreds of Japanese samurai were actually secret Christians who expressed their faith with codes hidden in their sword hilts? As far as the new findings of The Sawada Miki Kinenkan museum in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan are concerned, the answer is "yes."
A Christian pastor from Lahore, the capital city of the Pakistani province of Punjab, has been arrested by the authorities because he allegedly disrespected the Holy Quran during an incident that happened recently in Nishtar Colony.
Aid workers from one charity alone in Jordan are feeding 3,000 Iraqi Christians every month who fled from Islamic State in their ancient homelands.
At least one Muslim migrant in Italy shares one thing in common with the devil: They both hate Christian symbols and want to destroy them.
A Christian from Kamahan village, Lahore, Pakistan, has been arrested by police after allegedly committing blasphemy.
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians who survived Hurricane Matthew will go hungry if governments, donors and aid agencies do not step up efforts to help them, Oxfam has warned.
A Christian woman in China who was beaten repeatedly by officials and suffered two miscarriages as a result is in need of urgent cancer treatment that she cannot afford, according to a Christian charity.
An Egyptian church in which a suicide bomber killed 27 people on 11 December has been fully restored, the Coptic news site Watani reports.
Three Israeli hikers were astounded to stumble across previously unknown engravings of a Seven-Branched Menorah and a Christian Cross in the foothills of Judea
Iraq over this new year period is witnessing a "grass-roots revolt against terrorism", alongside a renewed commitment to the "defense of life, peace, joy" as Muslims attended Mass and people celebrated the start of 2017, according to the Chaldean Patriarch there, Mar Raphael Louis Sako.
Ma Huichao was sentenced on Friday at a court in the western Xinjiang region of China.
Pastor Andrew Brunson has had his appeal denied and remains jailed on charges of "membership in an armed terrorist organisation", campaigners say.
If Donald Trump goes ahead with his pledge to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem it will "ignite" the Palestinian people who could start a new uprising, a senior Fatah official has said.
The head of the Iraqi government in Basra has appealed to Iraqi Christians who fled the terrors of Islamic State to return home.
A Sudanese church leader has been released but three others β a fellow pastor, an aid worker and a graduate β continue toface the death penalty or life imprisonment for seven criminal charges relating to alleged "spying".
The Christian human rights lawyer who disappeared into police custody in China, arousing fears for his safety, has been released.
Two bombs claimed by Islamic State killed 25 people in central Baghdad on Saturday, as fighting intensified in the northern city of Mosul where government forces are trying to rout the jihadists from their last major stronghold in the country.
A Yazidi woman held captive by Islamic State militants for more than two years managed to escape when Iraqi forces pushed into Mosul and provided information that helped them retake a neighbourhood of the city, Iraqi commanders said.
Religious persecution has deteriorated rapidly across the globe, that was the conclusion of a US State Department report published in August.
A Yazidi woman held captive by Islamic State militants for more than two years managed to escape when Iraqi forces pushed into Mosul.
As a sign of respect and unity to their Christian brothers and sisters, around 45,000 Hindus paid tribute to baby Jesus in Bhubaneshwar, capital of the State of Odisha, India on Christmas Day.
What was intended to be a joyous celebration of Christmas turned into a nightmare in Pakistan when at least 34 Christian partygoers died after drinking tainted home-made liquor.
A record number of Christian and Jewish clergy are to lead prayers at the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
A shocking rise in violent persecution of Christians is forecast for next year by the charity Release International.
A prominent Christian human rights lawyer in China has disappeared after being summoned to a police station, according to the charity China Aid.
People celebrating Christmas in Damascus, Syria faced a terrifying ordeal when three mortar shells exploded close to a French hospital on Sunday.
Iraqi security forces on Thursday began the second phase of their offensive against Islamic State militants in Mosul, pushing from three directions into eastern districts where the battle has been deadlocked for nearly a month.
In a puzzling discovery, Italian researchers have discovered a nativity scene that was done, based on scientific calculation, 5,000 years agoβabout 3,000 years before Jesus was born!
At least 16 people were hurt in a grenade explosion that took place outside a Catholic church during Christmas eve mass in the Philippines.
A Catholic church in Sri Lanka raised quite a lot of eyebrows after it displayed the lyrics of a song by rapper Tupac instead of the "Hail Mary" on a page in booklets distributed to the congregants last Dec. 11.
Saudi Arabia, a predominantly Muslim nation, saw more Christians celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ this year despite the strict prohibitions imposed by authorities.
In order to be inclusive of all religions and to adjust to a "changing world," a school in Sweden has decided to remove any references to Christianity in the carol "Now Light 1,000 Christmas Lights."
The Islamic State (ISIS) has released a gruesome video showing two men, said to be captured Turkish soldiers, being taken out of their cage and made to walk like dogs in the middle of a desert before they were burned alive, The Daily Mail reported.
On the face of it, the holy city of Bethlehem is flourishing this Christmas. But under the surface, there lies a different story.
The United States on Friday allowed the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building.
A few hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to Bartella, a northern town recently retaken from Islamic State, to celebrate Christmas for the first time since 2013.
For some Israelis they are symbols of an alien faith that threatens their religious identity.
Syrian refugees forced from their homes due to war, conflict and persecution will receive a donation of more than Β£6,000 after pupils at a Catholic school in London were moved by their plight.
The Syrian army said it had retaken complete control of Aleppo on Thursday after the last rebel fighters were evacuated from the battered city.
Seven familes have been exiled from their homes in Laos because they are Christian and two further men were beaten in unsuccessful attempts to force them to deny their faith.
Donald Trump has pledged to "make America great again" - and if nothing else, his inauguration certainly promises to be one of the greatest parties ever.
Christians in the south of Nigeria are failing to help persecuted fellow believers in the north, according to a veteran humanitarian campaigner.
The Israel Antiquities Authority found the bowl with the inscription "Hyrcanus" in the GivΚ½ati Parking Lot currently being excavated at the City of David. The dig is one of the largest taking place in Jerusalem.
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Terrible suffering afflicts many regions of the world, and some are noticed by the wider world more often than others.
Jiang Tianyong, 45, went missing on November 21 after visiting the wife of an imprisoned lawyer, persecution charity Release International reports.
Coptic Christians who survived the deadly church bombing in Cairo on December 11 have said they forgive their attacker, and are ready to be killed for their faith.
Evangelicals in Canada have called for prostitutes to have criminal charges related to their work expunged from their records.
German authorities on Tuesday released a Pakistani asylum-seeker suspected of driving a truck into a Berlin Christmas market and killing 12 people due to a lack of evidence.
A Vietnamese Lutheran pastor currently serving an 11-year prison sentence after fighting for religious freedom was recently kept in isolation and prevented from contacting his family.
For hundreds of thousands of refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border, they are trapped with little hope for the future.
A group of evangelical church and lay leaders in the US has called on Donald Trump to reconsider his choice of climate change skeptic Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
A group of Christmas carollers, including a pastor and three women, were viciously beaten last week by suspected Hindu radicalsβjust one of the mounting cases of violence against Christians in India.
A window has been opened into the secretive world of the Islamic State (ISIS), showing how the extremists are training children to fill their depleted ranks as they come under relentless attacks from Iraqi and other coalition forces.
Is it a sign from God, or just a hoax?
The Islamic State (ISIS) has warned that it will escalate terrorist attacks against Christians in the coming weeks, reports said. It appeared to have carried out the threat on Monday night when a lorry ploughed through a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, killing nine people and injuring more than 50 other shoppers, according to the Mirror.
The Islamic State (ISIS) has warned that it will escalate terrorist attacks against Christians in the coming weeks, reports said. It appeared to have carried out the threat on Monday night when a lorry ploughed through a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany, killing at least 12 people and injuring nearly 50 other shoppers, reports said.
A Holy See diplomat has warned that Christians face insidious discrimination, even in the West and countries where they are not obviously persecuted against, the Catholic Herald has reported.
A 23-year-old asylum seeker of Pakistani origin named Naved B has been arrested under suspicion of carrying out the truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, according to German media reports.
A Hungarian Catholic priest has been attacked by parishioners after giving a group of Syrian Christian refugees shelter in a parish building.
The truck crashed into people gathered around wooden huts serving mulled wine and sausages at the foot of the Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church.
Church and charity leaders today warned against tarnishing asylum seekers with accusations of terrorism after there were mixed reports in Germany about the identity of the attacker who targeted a Christmas market in Berlin last night.
The death toll from the bombing on a church to Cairo continues to rise after a 10-year-old girl died from her injuries on Tuesday morning.
The largest Persian-speaking church in Iran has been stripped of its land after being accused of links to the US intelligence body.
Minority Christians in Indonesia may have to celebrate Christmas quietly this year since Muslim hard-liners in the Southeast Asian country remain intolerant of such a celebration.
Jesus Christ β or the way he is depicted in statues β is under relentless attack in Germany.
The death toll from the Cairo church bombing has risen to 26 after an injured woman died at the weekend.
Armed men burned five buses that were supposed to be used for an evacuation near Idlib in Syria on Sunday, stalling a deal to allow thousands to depart from the last rebel pocket in Aleppo.
Talks in Democratic Republic of Congo between the ruling coalition and the opposition failed to reach a compromise on the political future of President Joseph Kabila, who is set to stay in power when his mandate ends on Monday.
Ecuador sent soldiers and police on Thursday to an isolated jungle area after a policeman was killed and several security officials injured in a violent protest against a Chinese copper exploration project amid conflicts between mining companies and indigenous communities.
Imagine yourself in the Holy Land, in Bethlehem, in the Church of the Nativity, in the very spot where Jesus was born.
Imagine yourself in the Holy Land, in Bethlehem, in the Church of the Nativity, in the very spot where Jesus was born.
Diplomats from Canada this week paid a rare visit to North Korea and were able to see a Canadian pastor serving a life sentence for subversion, a foreign ministry official said.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and opposition leader Alvaro Uribe were unable to find common ground on a peace accord with Marxist FARC rebels, even with the mediation of Pope Francis when they met at the Vatican on Friday.
Islamic State fighters have stepped up counterattacks on Iraqi forces in Mosul amid bad weather as the U.S.-backed offensive to capture their last major city stronghold in Iraq enters its third month.
Thirteen soldiers were killed and 48 more were injured when a car bomb hit a bus transporting off-duty military personnel in the central Turkish city of Kayseri on Saturday, one week after a twin bombing targeted police in Istanbul.
Today is when the Church of England remembers Eglantyne Jebb, the founder of Save the Children who (having been born on 25 August 1876) died on this date in 1928.
Saudi Arabia has changed its official calendar so that the Islamic kingdom is now being run on a timeline based on the birth of Jesus Christ.
Saudi Arabia has changed its official calendar so that the Islamic kingdom is now being run on a timeline based on the birth of Jesus Christ.
Pia Wurtzbach won the crown in 2015 β meaning she was the third Phillipino to claim the title.
As the evacuation of rebel-held areas of Aleppo got under way today, in the east, ambulances came under fire from fighters loyal to the Syrian government, who killed at least one person, according to a rescue service spokesman.
Thousands of people will gather to pray in south London on Friday after a series of attacks against Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan.
The family of a US pastor in Turkey have launched a campaign for his release.
These "parties" are bloody and are not pleasant at all to the women joining them. These are the female genital mutilation (FGM) "parties" that a British charity has said are going on across England that have so far victimised at least 8,000 women, the BBC reported.
Is the Messiah here already? Some Jewish religious leaders believe this to be true.
"Come out and make a stand!" Archbishop Socrates Villegas, head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, made the rallying cry on Sunday as he urged Filipinos to resist the threat of the restoration of the death penalty in their country.
The Catholic Church in India has admitted for the first time that Dalit Christians in the country face discrimination from the caste system and that "their participation in the level of leadership... at the higher levels is almost nil".
Meet Asher Nash, a toddler from Georgia, U.S.A. who has landed major modelling jobs this Christmas season despite being afflicted with Down Syndrome.
A Christian couple who spent their life savings on buying their first home have decided to lend the property to asylum seekers.
In a statement by its news agency Amaq, ISIS said the suicide bomber, who it identified as Abu Abdallah al-Masri, had detonated his explosive belt inside the church.
Two Christian leaders in Azerbaijan have been fined 1,500 Azerbaijani Manats each, or $850, for holding an "illegal" prayer meeting, according to World Watch Monitor.
The nativity scene at the cemetery of Cremona in northern Italy will go ahead but for the first time, it will not be the parish priest who lays it out.
They were dancing and singing praises to the Lord when death came crashing down.
Maryam Zargaran, the Christian convert imprisoned in Iran, has had her sentence extended by more than a month.
As the crisis in Yemen continues to unfold, a major appeal was launched today by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC).
The Christian governor of Jakarta cried as he denied insulting Islam in the first day of his trial for blasphemy.
Pope Francis turns 80 on Saturday, but β as you might expect with this pontiff β the day will be very much business as usual.
Pope Francis has made a last-ditch appeal to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria appealing for an end to the terrible violence and destruction in which so many innocent people are dying.
Jews are the best educated of any religious group, averaging 13.4 years of schooling and with a majority going on to higher education, according to a new report by the respected Washington-based Pew Research Center.
A prominent Christian human rights lawyer who died in prison in China earlier this month had his organs harvested, according to horrific reports from activist sources in the Communist country.
Lawmakers from both the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States have united to call on the government of India to ease funding restrictions it imposed on a Christian organisation based only on an accusation that it is encouraging religious conversions.
The Islamic State (ISIS) appears to be both losing and winning in its campaign of terror in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Syrian rebels have received a US-backed proposal to leave Aleppo along with civilians under safe passage guaranteed by Russia, rebel officials have said.
A Christian pastor has been imprisoned and charged in Turkey with membership of an "armed terrorist organisation".
The builder and contractors responsible for the Reigners Bible Church in Nigeria that collapsed at an episcopal consecraton, killing and injuring dozens of people, are to face a police investigation.
More and more refugees from the Middle East in Germany are turning their backs on Islam and embracing Christianity because of their desire to feel loved and free, a pastor guiding the migrants through their conversions shared.
This terrorist group is sending young boys to schoolβnot to get education but to kill Christian teachers and students as well.
They were sworn enemies but ended up as brothers in Christ spreading the message of love.
At least 60 people were killed when a church roof collapsed during a service in southern Nigeria on Saturday.
The CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House
Senior Anglican clergy have accused the British government of failing to take seriously the urgent plight of Christians facing persecution and death in Syria and Iraq.
A deep suspicion of the activity of foreign Christian organisations has led to a crisis for one of the largest and longest-established working in India today.
A convicted child abuser has been beaten to death while playing in a church music group in Argentina.
A Christian teacher from Uganda was threatened with death and beaten until he lost consciousness by Muslim residents from his village who were angry about how he turned his back on Islam to embrace Christianity.
As the worst humanitarian crisis in the world continues to rage in Yemen, Christian aid organisation Tearfund today launched an appeal to help the more than 18 million people continuing to suffer.
Christian evangelist Franklin Graham has condemned Time magazine for comparing Hillary Clinton to Moses.
Southern Baptist leaders have welcomed the choice by President-elect Donald Trump of leading Baptist layman Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
A Christian politician is to be tried for alleged blasphemy next week in a case that illustrates the growing tensions between Islam and other faiths in Indonesia.
Three months after Hurricane Matthew devastated Haiti, the Caribbean island is slowly making a recovery.
A Christian mother in India has been stripped, beaten and killed, in a mob attack which is feared to have been motivated by religion.
More and more people in Nepal are turning to Christianity ever since the predominantly Hindu nation in South Asia went secular in 2008.
Three Christians from Egypt are currently seeking refuge in Cyprus after they fled their Muslim-dominated nation because of the brutal persecution they had experienced because of their faith.
Eight Christians in Nepal have secured a major victory in religious freedom after charges of proselytising were dropped against them.
Assyrian Christians who were forced to flee their homes by Islamic State are now back in Iraq, defending the very town they were made to run from in terror β Qaraqosh.
In February 2015, ISIS abducted 226 victims were all Christians. Against impossible odds, a determined bishop helped secure their release.
Not every prayer for a miracle is answered, and the family of seven-year-old Kayleigh McClendon understands why.
While most youngsters would simply marvel at well-adorned and sparkling Christmas trees this holiday season, 16-year-old Ryan Brook of Somerset, England does more than that: He grows those Christmas trees, nearly 1,500 of them βand earns good money doing so, which he is saving for his college education.
The World Council of Churches has said it "deeply regrets" a decision by Israel to refuse entry to a woman on the grounds that she was working against the interests of the state.
Two Christian artists based in the state of Arizona in the United States continue to fight legal woes and may end up being jailed or paying hefty fines for refusing to make invitations for homosexual unions because of their faith.
Turkey has turned on US Protestants in its post-coup crackdown, analysts have warned.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi vowed to resign after suffering a crushing defeat on Sunday in a referendum on constitutional reform.
Muslim and Christian leaders in the United States have condemned the vandalism of an Assyrian church with graffiti that references the killings of 185,000 Middle Eastern Christians.
The third largest church in Australia is reportedly shying away from any references to Jesus Christ and supposedly also steering clear of religious symbols as part of its rebranding and new advertising strategy.
A Christian pastor in California may end up in jail and be asked to pay a hefty fine for offering prayers for pregnant women entering abortion clinics, hoping to change their minds about killing their own babies.
Eighteen of the Muslim attackers who were allegedly part of an angry mob have reportedly been arrested after they caused injury to four Christians in Egypt and left hundreds of others homeless by forcibly burning down residential areas and other buildings last week.
A fire that roared through a warehouse dance party in Oakland, California, killed more than nine people and left at least two dozen others missing and feared dead inside the gutted building, officials said on Saturday, as anguished friends and relatives awaited word of their fate.
The wet drizzle mirrors the mood of the grieving town of Chapeco, Brazil, as it prepared Saturday to receive the bodies of victims of a plane crash in Colombia on Monday that devastated its football team.
A protest in the South Korean capital of Seoul has drawn hundreds of thousands out against scandal-hit President Park Geun-hye.
For these Iranian Christian refugees, there seems to be no escaping persecution from Muslim extremists.
"God got her safe." A pastor in Waynesville, Missouri made the remark after witnessing a newly baptised 12-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother survive a brutal knife attack by their own mother on Sunday.
At least 200,000 Muslims poured into Jakarta on Friday to demand that the Christian governor of the city be jailed after allegedly insulting the Quran.
An ancient set of books found in Jordan eight years ago has passed rigorous tests of authenticity recently conducted by scholars, officially making them the oldest written reference to Jesus Christ.
More than 77,000 people have been displaced from the region surrounding the city since the offensive to retake Mosul from ISIS began on October 17, the UN has said.
The father of a Brazilian football player who was among the six people who survived the plane crash in Colombia on Monday thinks there is only one way to explain why his son lived through the tragedy: it was a "miracle of God."
A Christian Arab cemetery in Northern Israel has been desecrated by vandals, with offensive Arabic graffiti left on graves and headstones.
19 different human rights and religious organisations have condemned the treatment of Christians by the regime in Iran.
Hundreds of churches in the United States are offering to open their doors to undocumented migrants, a few weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes over the White House and possibly make good on his campaign promise to launch a major crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Israeli leaders want to impose a ban on the Muslim call to prayer, a controversial plan that Christian news site Charisma News said "could be part of the fulfillment of Jeremiah 30," a prophecy foretelling a time when God would restore His people to their lands.
Almost 300,000 children in Mosul have been cut off from access to clean water as the battle to retake the city intensifies, UNICEF warned on Wednesday.
The Pope has made an impassioned plea for an end to children being used as soldiers to fight wars created by adults.
Lead codices found in a cave in Jordan said to contain a portrait of Jesus and references to him and his disciples could be nearly 2,000 years old, scientists say.
Lead codices found in a cave in Jordan said to contain a portrait of Jesus and references to him and his disciples could be nearly 2,000 years old, scientists say.
What? A toxic pesticide ominously called Doom can heal people? Yes it can, claims South African Pastor Lethebo Rabalago who has been spraying the chemical on members of his Mount Zion General Assembly in Zebediela, South Africa.
European Union officials were urged to help persecuted Christians in the 12th meeting of religious leaders.
Thousands squeezed into Chapeco cathedral, Brazil, on Tuesday evening to mourn the death of 71 people who died in a plane crash on Monday night.
Syria and its allies aim to drive rebels from Aleppo before Donald Trump takes office as US President, a senior official in the pro-Damascus military alliance has said.
Young Christian migrants in Germany are experiencing persecution in their early years in the form of bullying by their Muslim counterparts, a Roman Catholic priest helping out in refugee camps revealed.
Christians in Aleppo are praying for peace as the brutal bombardment of the Syrian city continues.
Christmas cards with war scenes imposed onto the nativity have been released by a medical charity Doctors of the World UK.
The numbers prove the great revival going on in Iran. According to a Christian convert named Reza, in 1994 there were about 100,000 Christ followers in Iran. "Right now, there are 3 million," he told CBN News.
Two mass graves containing Yazidi bodies have been discovered in northwestern Iraq, a local official said on Sunday.
Baptised as a Roman Catholic and educated by Jesuits, Fidel Castro became a persecutor of the Church after seizing power in Cuba in 1959.
Fewer and fewer couples in the United States are breaking up the sacred ties of marriage, bringing down the divorce rate among Americans to its lowest for the past 35 years, a study from a university research centre in the state of Ohio revealed.
A housing facility for women working for Bibles for Mideast, an underground Bible-distributing ministry in the region, was attacked on Nov. 18 by suspected bomb-throwing Islamist militants, triggering a massive fire and seriously injuring two women.
ISIS has systematically killed, captured and enslaved thousands of Yazidis, whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions and are regarded by Islamic State as devil-worshippers.
Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him, died on Friday.
The Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group has not only destroyed buildings and entire cities in the Middle East but also strained relations between Muslims and Christians in the areas it conquered, according to a bishop from the United States.
A draft EU resolution discusses the role of Russian propaganda. It names the Church as an agent of government messages.
