Religion Today Archives

In a whirlwind of activity, the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted to lift a ban on partnered gay clergy, but turned down a bid to expand its...

The latest in a string of failed attempts by Muslim fanatics on the life of an Egyptian man who publicly converted to Christianity in 2008 happened...

A Muslim mob in Jhelum, Pakistan murdered the wife and four children of a Christian last month, but local authorities are too afraid of the local...

One church in Bogor, West Java, has filed a religious discrimination appeal with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or...

Christians in Orissa state had mixed feelings about the sentencing on June 29 of state legislator Manoj Pradhan to seven years in prison for...

Megachurches here in the heart of the Bible Belt are thriving enough to support a major building boom despite a sluggish economy.

Moroccan authorities expelled eight more foreign Christians from the country the weekend of June 26, bringing the total of deported Christians...

"All are welcome" is a common phrase on many a church sign and website. But what happens when a convicted sex offender takes those words literally?

A Muslim vying with a Christian for a parcel of land here has accused the elderly man of "blaspheming" Islam’s prophet Muhammad, which is...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Christian student group must accept gays and non-Christians as members if it wants to be officially...

Muslim students attacked a Christian professor at the University of Peshawar this month after he refused their demand to convert to Islam, the...

A worker for a Midwestern-based Christian ministry has reported alarming conditions in Osh, the strife-torn city in which he is serving in...

Ethnic violence among Kyrgyz and Uzbek people in Central Asia has killed as many as 2,000 people and driven an estimated 400,000 from their homes.

Can there be anything that grieves the Father's heart more than the forced enslaving of people made in His own image—by others bearing that same...

An 11-year-old Christian boy is growing weak from malnutrition after working in slave-like conditions for a Muslim landowner who kidnapped him and...