The Government has said there is no immediate prospect of change in Saudi Arabia over the persecution of Christians in the country. Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood was responding to a question...
The right to follow Jesus freely is still not assured in Vietnam, according to a Christian anti-persecution charity. Christian Solidarity Worldwide has said last week Vietnamese politicians passed th...
A controversial religious freedom bill to protect business owners who want to decline services to same-sex couples was passed on Monday 23rd March in Indiana. The Washington Post reported that the bi...
Anti-persecution group Christian Solidarity Worldwide is raising concerns for believers in Cuba after a rise in attacks on religious minorities. From the beginning of 2014 to mid-July CSW recorded 17...
New rules by the Russian government could force all priests in Crimea to leave by the end of the year, it has been reported. The Forum 18 news service claims that because the region is now under cont...
Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church hail new elections as a 'political vision and would ensure security for all Egyptians', about 10% of whom are Christian. The head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, Pop...
All religions and their leaders must own up to extremist activities within their faith and examine which of their traditional teachings enable followers to comm The Most Rev Justin Welby, the figureh...
A new study has suggested religious people live four years longer than those without faith. Analysis on over 1,500 newspaper obituaries in the US found religious affiliation had a big effect on life ...
A move to ban teachers, judges and police officers from wearing religious symbols to work has prompted fierce opposition in one Canadian province. The government of Quebec has introduced legislation ...
The remains of a suicide bomber who attacked a church in eastern Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday have been exhumed after a court order that they be buried elsewhere Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara says...
Churches across the UK are being urged to act this Harvest, amid a warning thousands of farmers in Kenya are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of While celebrating the fruits of the la...
The Bishop overseeing displaced Christian families in the north of Iraq has called on all Christian groups to work as one to ensure Britain does not forget suff Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda of Er...
There's a new call for the UK Government to describe the treatment of Christians by Islamic State in the Middle East as a genocide. The campaign group ADF International wants the UK to follow the Eur...
Evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem has changed his position on divorce, now claiming it may be biblically acceptable if abuse is taking place. The co-founder of the Council on Biblical Manhood and W...
Church leaders from Africa and Asia are threatening to walk out of talks, chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury, unless American bishops drop their support fo It has been reported that Justin Welby...
The head of a creationist-themed park in Kentucky, USA has declared it will be reclaiming the rainbow for God. Ken Ham, the founder of the The Ark Enounter, has stirred up controversy by saying the t...
A Brazilian billionaire's completed his project of building a replica of Solomon's temple. Edir Macedo of the Universal Church in Rio says he wants it to become as big an attraction at the Christ the...
A university study has highlighted the "irreplaceable and unique" contribution that elderly women make to the church across the world. Dr Abby Day from the University of London spent several months w...
A report on sexual abuse inside the Catholic Church in Germany says 3,677 people were abused by clergy between 1946 and 2014, two leading German media outlets h Spiegel Online and Die Zeit said the re...
A new report estimates that between half and 80 per cent of Christians have left Syria and Iraq since the Syrian civil war started in 2011. The arrival of Islamic State provided only the "tipping poi...
