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A group of people spent the night in a church while wildfires blazed around them, destroying the town. Pastor Doug Crowder leads Magalia Pines Baptist Church, Magalia is near Paradise - a town which ...

There's a call for a senior politician in Indonesia to be acquitted ahead of local elections later this month. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known as 'Ahok', is the governor of Jakarta and as a Chinese Chr...

As Egypt's president is re-elected, a religious freedom charity is calling on him to do more to protect Christians in his country. It's reported Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has won 92 percent of the vote in...

There's a call for Christians to take a strong stance against assisted suicide after a 104-year-old British-born scientist ended his life in Switzerland. According to right-to-die group Exit Internat...

A Dutch archbishop has said the Church should accept and recognise relationships between two people of the same sex. Archbishop Johan Bonny of Antwerp signalled his approval of gay unions in an inter...

As US-backed Syrian force announced the liberation of Raqqa from Islamic State (IS) militants on Tuesday, a Christian charity has asked for continued prayers fo According to a senior commander for a ...

A Christian advocacy group has called for the murderers of a Pakistani Christian politician to be brought to justice, more than four years after his death. Taliban gunmen killed Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakis...

Christians are being encouraged to pray for Iran as the country goes to the polls. Voters are set to give their verdict on President Rouhani's policy of opening up the country to the world.The incumb...

A Christian charity's urging us to pray after a fire at a children's home in Guatemala killed at least 22 girls. Viva's speaking after the fire started at the Virgin of the Assumption shelter near th...

A court hearing involving the Bible Society's bookshop and distribution centre in Tel Aviv and the property's owner is scheduled to take place on Monday. The charity, which has rented the property si...

There is an emergency call for prayer as forces in Iraq prepare to push Islamic State (IS) from its stronghold in Mosul.  Samaritan's Purse is working on the ground and says it is ready to aid peopl...

There's a call for prayer as North Korea issues a fresh nuclear war threat against America. The World Council of Churches is speaking after North Korea's vice foreign minister Han Song Ryol (below, t...

Christian Aid has launched an appeal to help communities in the Philippines recover and rebuild following the powerful typhoon which killed at least 69 people i The typhoon has weakened to a tropical...

A Christian organisation in Southern India is calling for prayer, as the country experiences its worst heatwave in more than 20 years.  More than 1,800 people have died in the last week, with weathe...

There's a call for Christians to pray for the families who've lost loved ones after a plane crash in Australia A twin-engine Beechcraft Super King Air crashed into the Direct Factory Outlet shopping ...

Christian leaders in Cameroon are calling on believers to pray for the African country following violence there in the last few days. A bomb attack in Bamenda city is said to have seen a number of po...

One year after Colombians rejected a peace agreement with the country's largest rebel group, a Jesuit Priest has told Premier that the outlook for peace remains Despite the fact that a revised deal w...

Christians in Sudan have called for prayers regarding a Church leader who faces charges over a dispute to do with his position. Rafat Samir, chair of the Evangelical Community Council, which is a Sud...

The US President has been urged to highlight persecution against Christians during his visit to China this week. US and Chinese companies have signed business deals valued at nine billion US dollars ...

Christians in Pakistan are marking the 5th anniversary of the death of Shahbaz Bhatti by calling for him to be declared a 'Martyr of the Church'.  On 2 March, 2011, he was assassinated in Islamabad ...