The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has officially gained independence from the Russian church. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I signed on Saturday the decree of independence which ...
Ukrainian police have searched the homes of Russian Orthodox priests and Russian Orthodox churches in several cities, stepping up pressure as Kiev pushes for th The eight searches in Ukraine's capita...
The UN is being encouraged to do more to expose violations of the freedom of religion or belief, conscience, and expression in the US, Australia, and Europe. Religious freedom charity ADF Internation...
The UN has announced that more than five million people - about a third of the population - will be in need of food aid. On Wednesday, the United Nations said Zimbabwe was facing its worst ever hunge...
The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) has urged Sri Lankan authorities to take stronger measures to address hate crim Dr Ahmed Shaheed visited the country earlier thi...
Christian NGOs are pleading with around 120 world leaders currently attending the UN climate summit in New York to reach a deal on the issue. Prime Minister David Cameron is among those who have gat...
The UN has held its first day commemorating victims of acts of violence based on religion or belief. Similar to days such as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the 2...
Diplomats at the United Nations shall be warned on Wednesday that war poses a specific to Christians and other religious groups. They will be told during a meeting in Geneva that religious minorities...
The UN has adopted an international day commemorating the victims of violence that occurred because of their religion or belief. On May 28, 2019, Poland, supported by several other countries, inclu...
A group of UN experts have called for the trials of three Christians in Iran to be fair and transparent. The special rapporteurs, who are part of the largest body of independent experts in the UN ...
The United Nations is investigating reports its own peacekeeping forces failed to stop the mass rape of dozens of aid workers in South Sudan, even though they w According to Associated Press and Huma...
A United Nations Special Rapporteur looking into the arbitrary loss of life in Nigeria has described the situation as a 'pressure cooker of injustice'. Agnes Callamard from the UN investigated misdem...
Christian humanitarian charity Tearfund has urged people to reduce their carbon footprint as a new United Nations report shows after steadily declining for over The State of Food Security and Nutriti...
The United Nations has rejected Christian Solidarity Worldwide's application for official UN accreditation. CSW first applied for consultative status with the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC...
The UN Human Rights Committee has called on the Algerian government to "guarantee freedom of religion to all", and stop harassing its Christian minority. The plea follows a number of churches and oth...
There has been a mixed reaction to the decision to examine claims of genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq at the hands of Islamic State. A decision by the United Nations' Security...
The United Nations has been urged to ensure that Andrew Brunson, a pastor currently on trial in Turkey, is set free "without injury or delay". Lawyers supporting the American also said there was "no ...
United Nations reveals there are now two million Syrian refugees - half of them are children - and four million have been displaced in the country. The UN's calling the humanitarian crisis in Syria t...
The United Nations has said that making children attend Christian and other school assemblies is against their human rights. In a report the organisation urges the UK to repeal laws which require '...
An unarmed Christian black man has been killed by a white police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Police footage shows Terence Crutcher, who regularly attended church, walking away from officers with hi...
