Religion Today Archives

Afghans are warning of dire consequences for the country’s tiny Christian population should American forces leave Afghanistan.

It has been almost three years since Nujood Ali's story made headlines around the world...

NBC omitted the phrase "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance during an opening video in its coverage of the U.S. Open golf tournament June 19...

A Catholic and two Hindu visitors with leprosy were freed on bail on June 14, two days after they were beaten by suspected Hindu extremists.

Military intelligence agents killed one Christian, and Islamic militants sympathetic to the government slaughtered another last week.

Children are the most vulnerable part of the suffering church. They are highly susceptible to the impact of being persecuted for their faith. In...

Police last weekend detained a further 16 members of Beijing’s Shouwang house church and placed several more under house arrest.

Southern Baptists meeting in Phoenix adopted a plan Tuesday to try to boost minorities in their top leadership posts.

In a village in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria, what was once a Christian community has vanished.

Muslim extremists shot and killed a Church of Christ in Nigeria pastor and his church secretary in Borno state last week.

A bill sitting in the U.S. House would force faith-based adoption agencies to choose between closing their doors and violating their religious...

Heaven and hell are in the news and on Americans’ minds a lot lately.

Does it matter that San Francisco may ban circumcisions? Or that a federal judge has prohibited prayer at a Texas graduation?

Ministry leaders see the bicycle chain as a metaphor for freedom, in that bikes bring out in children a sense of adventure and hope.

Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy, is in good health, but her her family needs support.