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On Wednesday, conservative Lutherans announced that it would "likely be necessary" to form their own body apart from the ELCA.

Public Security officials seized two Chinese human rights leaders who had been trying to meet with U.S. President Obama before he left the country.

Though weakened after nine months in prison, two women walked out of Tehran's Evin Prison to breathe free air yesterday.

A 13th Christian leader in Somalia has been killed by Islamic extremists, who left pastor Ali Hussein Weheliye for dead after ambushing him.

When pastor David Oritz's 15-year-old son lifted the lid of a Purim basket, left anonymously as a gift at their Ariel apartment, a bomb inside the...

Former Episcopalians who have found a traditional refuge in Catholicism, where the priesthood remains closed to women and openly gay clergy, are...

The craziness continues between a local church in the UK in its ongoing struggle against the borough council over the volume of its worship...

About 40 Muslim extremists with machetes and clubs tried to break into a Sunday worship service outside Uganda's capital city of Kampala on Nov. 1,...

Steven Curtis Chapman's voice was one of many heard around the world this Orphan Sunday, trying to draw attention to more than 140 million orphans...

Malaysian port and customs authorities have seized at least 15,000 Bibles in recent months because the word “Allah” for God appears in them.

In the early 1980s, the Rev. Christian Fuhrer The Rev. Christian began holding weekly prayers for peace at St. Nikolai. Its weekly vigil eventually...

You hear about the "coldest winter in years." Surely global warming is a fake, then? Andrew Farley clarifies the debate with the differences...

Elders in the Assemblies of God are worried about what a younger generation's more practical theology might mean for the future of the practice of...

A group of religious freedom activists in China are not the only ones needing a lawyer; their lawyers also are being attacked by the government.

A bail order in Bangladesh has impeded police from rescuing a young Christian girl who was abducted and forced to convert to Islam and marry one of...