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The nation's largest evangelical umbrella group has tapped a veteran expert on refugee settlement and international relief efforts as its new top...

Anglicans from the United States and Canada this week completed the organization of a new church devoted to traditional Anglican beliefs with the...

Southern Baptists opened their annual meeting with calls to turn around plummeting baptism rates, even as researchers warned that the nation's...

When the congregation at St. Nicolay church in this northern Israeli town gathered on that quiet Friday morning of May 29, they never expected to...

Orphaned by a devastating cyclone in 2008, thousands of children in Burma (Myanmar) are now engaged in a deadly game of hide and seek with Burmese...

Increasing protests -- despite police crackdowns and the release of Basij militia – show that thousands upon thousands of Iranians are unwilling to...

Pastor Duong Van Tuan and an elder at his church were beaten and jailed after Vietnamese officials denied their church's attempts to register.

Egyptian news sources report security forces have wrongly detained two Christians for nearly a month as part of a ruse to cast a Muslim attack on...

A registered Three-Self Patriotic Movement in Jiangsu continues to experience persecution by Yancheng municipal government authorities, who are...

“I’ve always had problems at work in Turkey because I’m a Christian, but never anything like this,” Nasser Ghorbani said, who routinely lost his...

Chinese authorities have refused renew the law licenses of at least 17 human rights leaders, many of them involved in the defense of religious...

A Beijing court today found Christian bookstore owner Shi Weihan guilty of “illegal business operation” and sentenced him to three years in prison...

Megachurches are most attractive to younger adults, and almost all who arrive at their sanctuaries have darkened a church's door before, a new...

Two policemen convicted of killing a Christian in Giza, Egypt have received only a five-year prison sentence for what lawyers are calling the...

International Christian Concern (ICC) says that it has learned that Burmese government forces attacked two internally displaced people's camps...