A state in north-east India has announced that it will begin the legal process to ensure a law banning conversions from one faith to another is repealed. Pema Khandu - a Buddhist who heads the nation...
Irish secondary school students who opt out of religion classes will be offered alternative subject choices. The new regulation, which comes into effect immediately, will affect pupils who previously...
Believe in a religion could improve your mental health, according to a new research by Theos. The research which analysed 139 studies over more than 30 years has linked well-being and religious bel...
Religion is worth $1.2 trillion to the US economy, more than the worth of technology giants Apple and Microsoft combined, a new study has found. The report by the Interdisciplinary Journal of Researc...
Myanmar's military has been accused of turning its guns from Rohingya Muslims on another ethnic minority in the country, the Kachin people. Release International, which supports persecuted Christians...
The Australian Government has delayed its religious discrimination bill, saying it will now come in next year. Many church leaders opposed the legislation as they felt it did not protect religious pe...
A Christian MP has exclusively told Premier protecting freedom of belief has to be a top priority of the government. David Burrowes said religious freedom is the most important issue facing the world...
Governor Mike Pence has signed the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act law making it legal to refuse a service on the grounds of beliefs. Opponents were worried the law will allow discriminat...
The state governor of Arkansas in the southern United States said he local authorities to recall the bill that some feel will allow discrimination against LGBT The Guardian reported the Religious Fr...
Christian religious freedom charities have responded to the recommendations of the persecution report by Bishop Philip Mounstephen. The report, published on Monday and carried out by the Bishop of Tr...
The Religious Liberty Partnership (RLP) - a collaboration of Christian freedom charities, have released a statement to highlight the ongoing threat towards fait The Abuja Statement has been released ...
Following the launch of a review by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the Bishop of Truro into the persecution of Christians, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) I The preliminary report, ordered by Mr ...
A prominent Cuban freedom of religion advocate has been detained without having any criminal charges brought against him, according to the religious freedom cha Leonardo RodrÃguez Alonso was detaine...
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...
