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Almost two-thirds -- 64 percent -- of congregations that switched to contemporary worship in the last five years saw an increase in worship...

At a funeral for a Christian man allegedly tortured to death while in custody on a spurious blasphemy charge, police fired on mourners trying to...

The number of atheist or agnostic student groups on U.S. campuses has more than doubled in the past two years, perhaps related to authors saying...

A convert from Islam in Somalia’s self-declared state of Somaliland has been jailed for distributing Christian materials, and another is on the run...

A convert from Islam who has led a push for Muslim-Christian understanding in Ethiopia has been in jail for nearly four months since his arrest for...

In the 10 years since a gunman chose Wedgewood Baptist Church for his deadly rampage, the congregation has learned a lot about healing. But...

Tyler Trembley was too sick to be driven by car or fly commercially to his treatment centers hundreds of miles away. That's where Pilots for Christ...

An Orissa court has sentenced six people to four years of "rigorous imprisonment" for their roles in last year's anti-Christian violence.

The latest of several attempts to provoke further attacks on Christians took place in a village on Friday (Sept. 4) when unidentified men tore...

Two Chinese Christian relief workers have been on trial for their role in helping earthquake survivors in Sichuan Province.

Gaza took another step towards strict Islamic law this week with the imposition of new dress codes on schoolgirls.

Muslim settlers have seized five acres of abandoned government property used by a church and falsedly charged Christians with damaging the land.

Christians Li Mingshun and Zhang Yonghu were sentenced to 10 and seven years in prison for aiding North Korean refugees fleeing to South Korea...

A revision of the New International Version of the Bible will be available in 2011, according to a joint announcement Sept. 1 by Zondervan, Biblica...

For many Assyrian Christians, Iraqi Kurdistan has become a haven where they can practice their faith in freedom, a haven from other parts of...