Some 21 Christians were killed when Islamic State (IS) militants captured al-Qaryatain in central Syria last August, the head of the Syrian Orthodox Church clai Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II has spoke...
The 21 Christians murdered in Libya by Islamic State are being remembered one year on from their death. After being kidnapped by extremists a month earlier in the city of Sirte, a video was then rele...
There is a final push for prayer in the last 24 hours before Christian woman Asia Bibi finds out if she will be hanged in Pakistan. The mother of five has been detained since 2009 and faces the death...
Charges have been brought against 271 Christians regarding various accusations ranging from using drugs to spreading misinformation about Hinduism in order to c According to Voice of the Martyrs, an ...
A new study has found that nearly three in ten American Christians share their faith via social media. According to a report from Barna Group entitled Spiritual Conversations in the Digital Age, 28 p...
Christians around the world are praying for their Muslim brothers and sisters as Ramadan begins. Churches in Europe have been reporting mass baptisms of Muslim migrants coming to Europe who have beco...
In excess of 30 priests who were singing Christmas carols in a village in India were arrested on Thursday after a Hindu nationalist group accused them of forcib According to the British Asian Christi...
Bibles have been handed out in The Jungle in Calais so that refugees, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, can read the text in their own language. Rachel Rounds, from the Bible Society told Premi...
YouVersion has announced that its Bible app has now been installed more than 300 million times. Thanks to the worldwide YouVersion Community and generous partners, the Bible App has been installed 30...
Christian Aid has said fighting in South Sudan has left around 300,000 people without aid in the region. It has reported that more than 100,000 people have fled from their homes in the last ten days....
A Christian charity has welcomed the release of 35 Christians who were imprisoned for their faith in Eritrea. The believers spent four and a half years in jail because they belonged to unregistered C...
Monitoring groups in the Middle East are reporting that 37 Assyrian Christians have been released from kidnap in Syria. It is thought that they were abducted in February in the Hasakah province.The A...
A Catholic priest who had been reported kidnapped has been found dead in central Mexico. Prosecutors in Morelos state said a relative identified the body of Father Moises Fabila Reyes, 83.He appears ...
The vice chairman of the Evangelical Alliance in Italy says humanity has a moral responsibility to rescue migrants, after more than 400 people drowned off the c "It is our responsibility to rescue an...
A major church led by world-renowned pastor TB Joshua has collapsed in Nigeria, killing 41 and injuring many others. Rescuers managed to pull around 130 people from the rubble of a guest house being ...
At least 44 people have been killed and dozens wounded after bomb attacks on two Egyptian churches claimed by the Islamic State group. Egypt's Health Ministry said an explosion at a church in the coa...
Police in France have discovered 4kg of cocaine and 200g of cannabis inside a car bearing Vatican diplomatic plates. Officers stopped the vehicle on Sunday at a toll station near Chambéry in th...
Five men accused of murdering a Christian woman accused of blasphemy in northern Nigeria, have been acquitted. In June a 74-year-old street vendor, Bridget Patience Agbahime, was beaten to death by a...
Five Indian Christians wrongly accused of killing a 84 year old Hindu monk have been found innocent after spending eleven years in prison. Bhaskar Sunamajhi, Buddhadev Nayak, Durjo Sunamajhi, Sanatan...
Five out of six Iraqi Christians have fled the country since the outbreak of war in 2003. Anti-persecution charity Open Doors is pushing the government to aid faith leaders in Iraq and Syria to...
