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A new report's highlighting the scale of religious freedom violations in Cuba. Anti-persecution charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide says it's found 220 separate incidents in the past 12 months.Its...

An anti-persecution charity has voiced concerns about the prison conditions of two South Sudanese pastors being kept in in neighbouring Sudan. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has reported that b...

There is concern among Christian humanitarian workers in east Africa that many church leaders support female genital mutiliation (FGM) despite the associated ri Staff at World Vision say the potentia...

A group of Christians in the Guizhou Province has been accused of carrying out "illegal religious activities" by authorities and forced to stop meeting together The Christians are all former members ...

A religious freedom charity says it continues to be concerned over the wellbeing of members of a Chinese church who were detained and then disappeared following 11 people are still thought to be in c...

Priests in Syria have appealed for prayers for kidnapped priest Father Jacques Mourad and his colleague, as uncertainty about their fate and his monastery mount Last week, reports suggested Islamic e...

A Cuban pastor is calling upon the government to recognise his ownership of a property. Revd Bravo Denis (also known as Yiorvis) has been fighting for two years for his right to be recognised as the ...

A warning has been issued that Christians in India will face increased persecution following the government's re-election of President Narendra Modi's Hindu nat Threats of violence towards religious ...

The global church must break the cycle of shame forcing persecuted Christian women to suffer in silence. That's according to the organisation, Christian Women Under Pressure for their Faith, which re...

With the conflict in Syria threatening to escalate as it continues in its seventh year, representatives from Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) have been tell Speaking on this Saturday's Voice For ...

Pakistan's government struggling with a crisis surrounding a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy charges after eight years on death row says it is having to Information minister Fawad Chaudhry sl...

Greek Orthodox archbishop Paul Yazigi and Syriac Orthodox archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim were seized near the northern commercial and industrial hub of Aleppo. Two Syrian bishops kidnapped by gunmen on M...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's election commission has scolded the Catholic church for saying its data show a clear winner in Sunday's presidential ele The church, a powerful voice in the he...

The Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has urged politicians in the country to respect the constitution ahead of the 2016 presidential el Bishops from the Church have restated ...

Churchgoers in Indonesia have managed to stop a would-be suicide bomber. An 18-year-old holding a piece of paper with a hand drawn Islamic State symbol ran towards a priest at St Joseph's in Medan on...

A pair of conjoined twins, born naturally in a remote village in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have survived separation following an 870-mile round tr Anick and Destin, two baby girls who w...

Hundreds of school children who survived finally returned to class at a new heavily-guarded building. Hundreds of school children who survived the Connecticut gun massacre have finally returned to cl...

A new Anglican denomination has been launched in Brazil and marked their start by the installation of its first archbishop. In 2005, many conservative Christians in the South American nation were exc...

An international gathering of Anglican churches due to be held in Canterbury next year poses an "obstacle to the gospel", the leader of a conservative church gr Archbishop Nicholas Okoh from the Glob...

The St Nicholas National Shrine next to the World Trade Centre memorial plaza was to replace a tiny church obliterated when the trade centre's south t  The new building was designed by...