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Indonesia's constitution officially guarantees religious freedom, but one church has been sealed and closed by West Java officials since January...

Moroccan Christians say Muslim extremists in the country are aiding and encouraging the government to pursue them by exposing them on Facebook.

Five Muslims here kidnapped and raped a Christian girl after threatening to kill her unless her father allowed one of them to marry her.

On Tuesday, Obama nominated Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook to the post of Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. The position had been...

A pastor in Assam state was murdered and cremated without being identified last month before family members learned of his death when they saw a...

Especially in Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes, the spill weeks ago found its way into every sermon, message and homily, as pastors seek to...

The Iranian Government Security Forces have burned hundreds of Bibles, according to the Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN).

A Christian woman here said she has been falsely accused of theft, beaten, threatened with rape and forced to resign her job in a bid to keep her...

Shehata and his wife Samir were ambushed on a desolate street by a group of Islamic gunmen outside a village in Upper Egypt. When the gunfire...

The head of a Muslim village last week ordered 250 Christian families to leave their homes in Khanewal district, Punjab Province, local residents...

The stories of Christians in Iran over the past couple of months sounds like a modern-day rendition of the Apostle Paul's sufferings. The methods...

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has forcefully defended her church's embrace of gays and lesbians, and firmly rejected efforts...

Former Colorado megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who fell from grace in 2006 after a gay sex-and-drug scandal, has announced plans to start a new...

Christian leaders on the Korean Peninsula are calling for prayer as tensions escalate between North and South Korea.

After weeks of failed attempts to stop the flow of oil to the area, fishermen are trying to hold on to hope that life might get back to normal.