Religion Today Archives

A panel has recommended that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America lift its ban on partnered gay and lesbian clergy, but only after the church...

Holman Bible Publishers has received a printing of 20,000 Chinese Standard Bible New Testaments, described as the first direct Chinese translation...

British-based human rights organization Christian Solidarity Worldwide is urging the UN Secretary-General to ramp up efforts to facilitate...

As Zimbabwe’s cholera continues to spread, the disease has expanded from urban centers into rural areas, aid agency World Vision reported recently....

Christian converts in Saudi Arabia go through many untold ordeals at the hands of government officials and other Muslim fundamentalists because of...

For the seventh year in a row, North Korea ranked number one on Open Doors annual World Watch List for 2009. The World Watch List ranks countries...

A Christian defender of human rights in China detailed state-sponsored torture he suffered in 2007 in an open letter released on Feb. 9, the same...

Following a hearing on Feb. 7, the lawyer for a Christian convert in Egypt said he is hopeful that his client will become the first Muslim-born...

Many Iranian Christians believe the arrests in January mark the beginning of a renewed crackdown. "The pressure is continuous,” one source said....

Buddhist members of Parliament who introduced the “Bill for the Prohibition of Forcible Conversions” claim that the measure will simply ensure the...

More than 100 protestors last week surrounded a Pakistani courthouse and chanted death threats against a Punjabi Christian said to be framed for...

Pilgrims to a massive Islamic conference near this capital city on Sunday (Feb. 1) beat and threatened to kill a Bible school student as he...

As uncertainty grows in the political and social climate of China, government authorities are ramping up efforts to both identity Christians and to...

Conservative Anglicans say they do not expect their new North American church to receive official approval from Anglican archbishops who convene...

A new Gallup Poll, based on more than 350,000 interviews, finds that Mississippi is the one where the most people -- 85 percent -- say yes when...