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When Pope Benedict XVI visits Africa for the first time as pope later this month, he will be visiting the region that has produced the greatest...

In an effort to stop conversions to Christianity in the eastern state of Bihar, a 25-year-old ailing man on Sunday (March 8) exploded a crude bomb...

The nation has grown less religious in the last two decades, with a 10 percent drop in the number of people who call themselves Christians and...

A debate has swirled around the topic for decades, more recently centering on the fact that China’s Amity Press has now printed over 50 million...

An 27-year-old man walked up the aisle at First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill., exchanged a few words with Pastor Fred Winters, then pulled a...

The challenge for Edwards, and for church leaders of other multi-generational churches, is how to best balance the technological needs of younger...

In a new twist on an old religious tradition, a growing number of Christian technophiles are swearing off Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and other...

Membership has waned in the nation's largest Christian bodies -- the Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention -- while mainline...

The state's Hindu nationalist government is planning to introduce the kind of “anti-conversion” law that has provided the pretext for...

Franklin Graham will travel again to Sudan, bringing leadership teams from both organizations to look for new ways to partner with each other and...

We were stunned to see that, in the middle of the bush, 11 women, nearly 20 children and three men had hacked out a piece of bush hiding from the...

Running water and electricity are rare in the Nairobi slums; open sewage trenches are common. But in one shanty, you'll find a room full of...

As China's government faces down a rapidly collapsing economy - and its Party's growing unpopularity - Christians are watching for signs of whether...

When Pope Benedict appointed Dolan, 59, as the new Archbishop of New York on Monday (Feb. 23), he placed a friendly face in the nation's most...

A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released in January details serious and ongoing abuses against the Chin people, a minority group in Burma’s...