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Pope Benedict XVI spent the last full day of his week-long pilgrimage urging reconciliation in the town where Jesus spent his youth but which is...

Churches in Karnataka, India, fear that the commission appointed to investigate attacks on churches last year may only be a cover for a new...

Pakistani Christians in Swat Valley are caught between the Taliban and Pakistan’s military as it assaults the stronghold where sharia (Islamic law)...

A Hmong man who murdered his mother in February because she had become a Christian has assaulted another Christian, leaving him critically wounded.

In the dilapidated office here of three lawyers representing one of Egypt’s “most wanted” Christian converts, the mood was hopeful in spite of a...

Pope Benedict XVI arrived here on Monday and quickly condemned anti-Semitism while calling for reconciliation in the fractious Middle East.

Church members in Depok city, West Java, are unable to use their church building after the mayor, citing protests from area Muslims, revoked a...

Young-Ae Kim and Mi-Sun Bang both fled North Korea to escape starvation. What the women endured after crossing the Chinese border was a different...

Authorities yesterday pressed ahead with the slaughter of Egypt’s pigs – crippling the livelihood of thousands of swine breeders, nearly all Coptic...

A year after Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, faith-based humanitarian groups are still working to repair the damage, long after the storm faded from...

With elections underway in India, its 2.3 percent Christian minority – which faced a deadly spate of attacks in the eastern state of Orissa last...

As Taliban control hits pockets of Pakistan and threatens the nation’s stability, Christians worry their province could be the next to fall under...

The Presbyterian Church (USA) has defeated the third move in 12 years that would have allowed partnered gay and lesbian clergy, but gay rights...

Gunmen in Iraq shot five Chaldean Catholic Christians in their Kirkuk homes on Sunday (April 26) in two separate attacks, killing three and...

Harvest Fields was recently in Beijing shooting film footage for its third film on China, showing how its spiritual growth has resembled the...