Religion Today Archives

A young Christian shopkeeper was sentenced to a life term in prison and fined more than $1,000 last week following a dubious conviction of...

The Heisman Trophy winner and his mother will be featured in a Pro-Life television commercial scheduled to run during the Super Bowl on CBS-TV on...

Alicia Swaringen received heart-swelling news the morning after last week's deadly earthquake in Haiti: Sthainder, the 4-year-old boy she planned...

Gunshots and smoke continue in Jos, Nigeria, where Christians fear further religious violence after weekend violence claimed the lives of at least...

A Vietnamese man violently forced to recant his fledgling Christian faith faces pressure from authorities and clansmen to prove his return to...

Extensive damage to Haiti's infrastructure has exacerbated the lack of clean drinking water in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.

"I'm ok. Can't call. I'm OK. Start the list." The text was the first word Lawrenceville Presbyterian had heard from its members in more than 24...

A Southern Baptist worker near Port-au-Prince is still missing days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Jan. 12.

Various ministries are regrouping and beginning relief efforts following Haiti's massive 7.0 earthquake, though authorities are still piecing...

The murder of 15 Christians, inlcuding women and children, by Islamic militants in Somalia tops last year's list.

Suspected Islamists have attacked eight church buildings since the country's High Court ruled that a Catholic weekly could use the word "Allah."

Six people, five of them Coptic Christians, were gunned down after Egyptian police declined to increase security for an Orthodox Christmas...

North Korea again ranked number one on the Open Doors annual World Watch List (WWL). The ongoing crackdown on Christians in Iran bumped that...

A wave of arrests hit Iranian house churches during the Christmas season, leaving at least five Christian converts in detention across northern...

Infuriated by an alleged anti-Islamic comment by a mentally ill man, more than a dozen Muslims attacked his Christian family here last week,...