The United Nations (UN) and the UK have led calls for China to create "space" to protect religious freedom for Christians. The UK was speaking at a UN conference earlier in the week and questioned ...
China says it will allow Catholics more freedom in the country, so long as the Vatican agrees to change the faith to suit the communist state. A top state official said China would have "constructi...
China's ruling Communist Party has ordered local governments to crack down on the construction of large outdoor religious statues amid increasing restrictions o The directive from the United Front Wo...
China is shutting down a number of "unofficial" churches near the site of the G20 summit, according to reports coming in from the country. Large religious activities have also been banned to create a...
China's president has urged the Communist Party to safeguard China's sovereignty and promote religion that is "Chinese in orientation". President Xi Jinping opened a twice-a-decade national congress ...
China's President Xi Jinping is warning of religious influences that could infiltrate the country from abroad. Â Over the past 24 months, Chinese authorities have been waging a campaign to remove cr...
Christian protesters in China clashed with hundreds of police officers who converged on one of the state-run churches to install surveillance equipment. The government in China's coastal Zhejiang P...
A group of 15 Chinese Christians were detained after more than 20 police officers raided a house church in Sichuan province. According to human rights organisation, China Aid, authorities interrupted...
Christians in China are losing their benefit payments in the ongoing crackdown on Christianity, a charity is warning. China Aid has reported that a local governing body in the central Guizhou provi...
A Christian political prisoner was attacked by a police officer because his beard was too long. According to China Aid Zhu YuFu, 65, was confronted by a police officer about the length of his beard o...
A lawyer of an imprisoned Chinese pastor has said that his client is in need of vital medical care. Pastor Yang Hua, the leader of Living Stone Church, is said to be "on the verge of paralysis" after...
A Christian man left almost completely blind by a debilitating disease has been able to read his Bible and see his family again following transformative surgery Desire from rural Cameroon in Central ...
The trial of a Russian blogger accused of inciting religious hatred by playing Pokemon Go in a church began today. Ruslan Sokolovsky, 22, was arrested after he was filmed catching Pokémon at the hei...
The leader of Boko Haram, an Islamist militant group responsible for the murder of thousands of Christians, has urged his fighters to "kill, slaughter and abduc Abubakur Shekau's presence in the vide...
Nigerian terror group Boko Haram has released all but one of the Dapchi schoolgirls who were kidnapped last month. The only girl who was not released is also th The girl's name is Leah Sharibu and sh...
Police in Nigeria have arrested eight suspected Boko Haram members on suspicion of kidnapping 276 Chibok school girls in Maiduguri, Borno State four years ago. The predominantly Christian schoolgirls...
A new 21 minute film featuring U2 frontman Bono and translator of 'The Message' version of the Bible Eugene Peterson was released yesterday. Produced by Fuller Theological Seminary, the film t...
U2 musician Bono has shared what he has learned from Psalms and how it helps him write great songs. During an interview with Fuller Studio, the rock star spoke about how much the poetry in the biblica...
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is urging the international community to do more to gather evidence of war crimes suffered by Christians and other minorities at He's been speaking at the Counter-D...
Botswana has shut down the church of a self-styled Malawian "prophet", who claimed to walk on air. The Botswana Gazette reported that services at Shepherd Bushiri's Enlightened Christian Gathering Ch...
