Religion Today Archives

Five years after it abolished Hinduism as the state religion, Nepal is working on a new criminal code forbidding conversion or evangelism.

A group of radical clerics in Pakistan wants the country’s Supreme Court to declare certain passages in the Bible blasphemous.

Armed Muslims disrputed the worship service of a church outside Lahore, but police only forced the intruders to apologize instead of making...

A judge in Algeria has convicted a Christian convert for insulting the prophet of Islam and sentenced him beyond what a prosecutor recommended.

The amendment to PC(USA) ordination standards occurs against the backdrop of a long numerical decline.

A ministry that funneled nearly 68,000 hammer-wielding volunteers until it ran out of money has reinvented itself.

Dustin Lee Sisney was mowing his aunt’s yard on Sunday just moments before one of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history struck Joplin, Mo.

Seven Algerian churches face closure this week after the governor of their province sent them written notice that they were operating "illegally."

Sudanese officials have arrested a Christian woman in a Darfur camp for displaced people, accusing her of converting Muslims.

Egyptian officials bow to Islamic pressure to keep Orthodox building closed.

A week after the record number of twisters destroyed entire towns, much-needed blessings punctuated overwhelming loss.

An Muslim family is holding a 17-year-old Christian girl hostage because one of her brothers allegedly eloped with a woman from the Muslim family. ...

The church is not to be arrogantly setting dates, but instead to be eagerly waiting for him. Of that we can be truly certain.

Christians from a congregation in Plateau state have been displaced after Muslim extremists set their church and homes on fire.

Throughout the persecuted church around the world, prayer is the fundamental basis of life.