Religion Today Archives

Indonesia's president declined to enforce a Supreme Court ruling that a local government allow a church to worship in its building.

Execution orders have reportedly been issued for imprisoned Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani.

Two months after Boko Haram Islamists killed 44 Christians in Madalla, a bomb blast outside a church building injured five.

Persecution of Iranian Christians continues with mass arrests, lengthy prison terms and potential executions.

Police failed to find evidence against a pastor accused of bribing Muslims to convert, but the converts face pressure to return to Islam.

"None of us thought there would be any change after the U.S. troops left. We were totally wrong."

Sudden superstar Jeremy Lin made basketball an idol before failure led him back to trusting God.

A university once steeped in Christian principles is now in a battle over religious liberties.

Textbooks and media in Turkey vilify followers of Christ, and intolerance continues to remain an "urgent problem."

New York's ban on churches meeting in public schools is about "more than meeting space," one pastor says.

A university student in Tehran was sentenced to one year of deprivation of education for believing in Christianity.

Through the past week, the Syrian army has been firing artillery, rockets, and mortars into residential neighborhoods in Homs.

Neither Christian groups nor school administrators are changing their position on Vanderbilt University’s nondiscrimination policy.

Street-level discontent in 2012 may grow along with unchecked authoritarianism in Africa.

For many, Haiti conjures up images of the natural disaster that claimed the lives of more than 300,000 people.