A judge set to hear the cases of four Christians appealing against prison sentences in Iran appears on a UK government blacklist. Judge Ahmad Zargar is named in the Consolidated List of Financial San...
A publishing company has been criticised for suggesting that Moses influenced the US constitution in one of its textbooks. Pearson's book, American Government, implied the country's legal system was ...
A group of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians have been executed by Islamic State extremists in Libya. Images have been posted on social media showing knives being held to the men's throats with the sloga...
A Christian man has been stabbed to death in Egypt by a Muslim mob, a Coptic bishop has said. It's reported the attack happened on Sunday after local Muslim youths in the village of Tahna al-Jabal in...
A three year sentence has been upheld in an appeals court in Egypt. Abd Adel Bebawy was arrested in his home village of Minbal on July 6 after posting an image of God, the angel Gabriel and a v...
Coptic Christians in the south of Egypt have renewed calls for an end to discrimination, after a number of churches have been closed down in recent weeks. A church in the southern province of Minya w...
Hundreds of Coptic Christians have started fleeing Libya in the face of attacks from Islamic State. Their native Egypt has started providing chartered flights to help them leave after a video was rel...
Egypt's president has again stated he has no intention to step down. Egypt's President is refusing to resign despite an ultimatum from the country's army.Last night Mohamed Morsi made a defiant TV ad...
Copts in Egypt have been left terrified by the killing of a married surgeon who they fear is the fourth believer to die in a spate of religiously motivated kill Father-of-two Bassam Safwat Atta, 35, ...
A group of Coptic Christians has protested outside the White House to urge the US to do more to protect believers from Islamic State. They were dressed in orange jump suits in scenes similar to the v...
The extent of the damage caused by Islamic State fighters in and around Qaraqosh could cost as much as £160 million to repair, according to Aid to the Church i The Catholic charity examined 12 Chris...
A regional court in the Central American country of Costa Rica has recognised the first same-sex civil partnership in a welfare case, despite opposition from th The decision comes after a couple's tw...
A fragment of bone said to belong to the fourth-century saint who inspired the story of Father Christmas could indeed be from the legend himself, scientists hav Researchers at the University of Oxfor...
It has been claimed that the increasing number of evangelical Christians in Brazil could have the deciding vote in the upcoming presidential election. The number of people following the denomination ...
It's thought Christians could be targeted under a fresh crackdown in China on "infiltration, subversion and sabotage by hostile forces". The country's underground church is among a list of groups pre...
There are concerns that US President Donald Trump's proposals to increase tariffs on Chinese goods entering the US will lead to a shortage of Bibles in America. American book publishers have calle...
The Council of Christians and Jews in Britain has voiced its concern over the "alarming escalation of violence" in Israel, directed both against Arab and Jewish On Wednesday it was reported a group o...
A call from the Australian Christian Lobby to exclude LGBTI programs and projects from the Sydney's Inner West Council's annual grants program has been rejected As the national marriage equality post...
A councillor in New Zealand is calling for tithing to be banned at churches located in low-income communities. Speaking on the AM show, Cllr Efeso Collins from the Manukau area in south Auckland said...
Many couples get emotional after receiving a sonogram of their unborn child, but an American couple said they had an extra reason to get all the feels. Mother, Alicia Zeek and Father, Zac Smith belie...
