Religion Today Archives

The year 2008 shaped the future of evangelical America - and the world - in major ways. From the Olympics abroad to the presidential election at...

Last December I found myself visiting Christians on both sides of the conflict in the Middle East. Reaching Bethlehem, I witnessed the city’s...

Local government officials in Dak Lak Province this morning made good on their threat to destroy a new wooden church building erected in September...

Iraq should be designated as a "country of particular concern" because its government tolerates the abuse of religious communities, according to...

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on Tuesday (Dec. 16) called on religious leaders to play a prophetic role in the public square...

After a judge Wednesday placed new financial and social pressure on the captors of a Pakistani girl who was kidnapped and converted to Islam,...

Africa's largest Christian grouping, the All Africa Conference of Churches, has pledged to “pray for an end to illegitimate rule in Zimbabwe” after...

A new Barna group study shows that more people value "making a difference" with their life -- but do their actions follow their words?

In a nutshell, the split "is over competing views about who God is, who Jesus is, and what we are going to do about it," said Rev. Peter Frank with...

Muslim zealots shot Salat Sekondo Mberwa in the shoulder and left him for dead, and he and other refugees told of hired Muslim gangs in Somalia...

Five Anglican archbishops have backed the introduction of a new Anglican province in North America, significant, though unsurprising boost for the...

The U.S. government should press Nigeria to launch the inquiry into last week's violence, which largely centered in Jos, a central city between...

More than 400 Christian college students have been arrested and interrogated following raids on house churches by Chinese authorities.

Since December of 2007, southern India’s Christian community has been rocked by unchecked terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hindu extremists in the...

Hindu extremists have called for a state-wide bandh, or forced shut-down on all sectors of society, on Dec. 25 -- a move that could provide Hindu...