On Wednesday, conservative Lutherans announced that it would "likely be necessary" to form their own body apart from the ELCA.
Public Security officials seized two Chinese human rights leaders who had been trying to meet with U.S. President Obama before he left the country.
Though weakened after nine months in prison, two women walked out of Tehran's Evin Prison to breathe free air yesterday.
A 13th Christian leader in Somalia has been killed by Islamic extremists, who left pastor Ali Hussein Weheliye for dead after ambushing him.
When pastor David Oritz's 15-year-old son lifted the lid of a Purim basket, left anonymously as a gift at their Ariel apartment, a bomb inside the basket exploded.
Former Episcopalians who have found a traditional refuge in Catholicism, where the priesthood remains closed to women and openly gay clergy, are applauding the Vatican's plan to help additional dissatisfied conservatives convert.
The craziness continues between a local church in the UK in its ongoing struggle against the borough council over the volume of its worship services.
About 40 Muslim extremists with machetes and clubs tried to break into a Sunday worship service outside Uganda's capital city of Kampala on Nov. 1, injuring a church member.
Steven Curtis Chapman's voice was one of many heard around the world this Orphan Sunday, trying to draw attention to more than 140 million orphans crying out for love and a family of their own.
Malaysian port and customs authorities have seized at least 15,000 Bibles in recent months because the word “Allah” for God appears in them.