Officials in India on Defensive at “Watch List” Designation
Ahead of one-year remembrances of massive anti-Christian violence in the eastern state of Orissa, the U.S. Commission on International Religious … Read More
Ahead of one-year remembrances of massive anti-Christian violence in the eastern state of Orissa, the U.S. Commission on International Religious … Read More
The debate over health reform has divided Christians, who have launched campaigns both denouncing and championing the controversial legislation. Tomorrow … Read More
American Family Association (AFA) founder Don Wildmon is in critical condition at a Tupelo, Miss., hospital, where he is being … Read More
Tyndale House Publishers is to publish a memoir by Gayle Haggard, wife of the former president of the National Association … Read More
Bishop Alfred A. Owens Jr. will be installed leader of Mount Calvary Holy Churches of America during the denomination’s 80th … Read More
Attacks on Christians in Sri Lanka have surged noticeably in recent weeks, following the government’s defeat of Tamil separatists in … Read More
A prayer event on the 40th anniversary of Woodstock seeks to reverse the tide of rebellion and sexual immorality that … Read More
Florida megachurch pastors Zachery and Riva Tims ended their 15-year-marriage in late July, two years after it was discovered that … Read More
at least 20 men accused of participating in a massacre in Chiapas state in December 1997 left prison early Thursday … Read More
The Christian attorney for the mother of an Ohio teen who ran away to Florida fearing her Muslim parents would … Read More
Already welcomed by full-page newspaper ads and the mayor who used to serve him barbecue, Bishop T.D. Jakes is today … Read More
Amid a violent crackdown on protestors and a purge of opponents within the Iranian government, more than 30 Christians were … Read More
In the Netherlands, the first nation to legalize same-sex marriage, a cross-section of religious leaders, scholars and lawmakers from 61 … Read More
With 12 Christians, including three pastors, confirmed killed in rioting ignited by an Islamic sect opposed to Western education, the Christian community in northern Nigeria’s Borno state is still counting its losses.
The rioting instigated by an Islamic extremist sect known as Boko Haram, which initially attacked police and government bases, left hundreds of people dead and large property losses. Islam’s strict Shariah law is already in force for Muslims in 12 northern states, but the sect is fighting to have it enforced more broadly in those states and to impose it throughout Nigeria.
The 51-acre campus of an Atlanta-area megachurch that used to be home to one the nation’s most influential charismatic congregations has been sold.
The Cathedral at Chapel Hill, founded by the late Earl Paulk Jr., was purchased by Greater Traveler’s Rest Baptist Church in Decatur, Ga., for $17.6 million, according to CNL Specialty Real Estate in Orlando, Fla., which brokered the deal that closed on Friday.
A teenage girl who converted to Christianity from Islam is at the center of a legal battle over whether she … Read More
MercyMe was scheduled to perform Monday night in Wisconsin after canceling Saturday’s show in St. Louis because of a fatal … Read More
Recessions are a good time for revival, California pastor Rick Warren told delegates this morning at the Assemblies of God … Read More
Local authorities in Vietnam have balked at registering house churches, contributing to a recent uptick in sometimes violent harassment of congregations.
Four police officers and two government officials broke up the Sunday morning worship service of a house church in Tran Phu Commune in Hanoi on July 26, announcing that it was illegal to worship and teach religion. The police chief of Tran Phu Commune in greater Hanoi, Dang Dinh Toi, had ordered the raid.
A medical missionary who was shot and kidnapped in Nigeria Sunday night was released this week after ransom was delivered. … Read More
The International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) has elected its longtime evangelism director to head the 4 million-member denomination. Bishop Ronald … Read More