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In a decision highlighting his concern for China's persecuted Christians, Pope Benedict XVI has included in his papacy's first selection of...

Extremists are threatening to blow up the Palestinian Bible Society in the Gaza Strip if the people who work there do not close up shop and ...

Daystar University, with over 2,000 students, is the only liberal arts Christian university in Africa -- but its influence is being felt all across...

Thousands of mainline church leaders and pastors have signed a letter rejecting a literal interpretation of the creation story in the Bible's Book...

The Nigerian government says intelligence agents have found that Kano state in northern Nigeria was seeking foreign support to train 100 jihadists....

John Giles of the Christian Coalition of Alabama says people across the state are stunned by the region's latest church fire, the tenth in a recent...

A conservative parish in Virginia has severed ties with the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) over its tolerance of unbiblical teaching on homosexuality...

Recent sociological studies are revealing a growing scandal within American Christianity. Many of our churchgoing teens are not Christian or,...

Revised guidelines for the prayers of military chaplains in the U.S. Air Force appear to take into account concerns expressed by Evangelicals about...

A crowd of Muslim women and a few men attacked a Catholic church in Pakistan's Punjab province recently, injuring two Christian women - one 70...

Investigators continue searching for suspects and a motive in four suspicious fires that broke out at black churches in rural Alabama early...

The founder of Gospel for Asia is asking Christians worldwide to pray and fast for believers in India who are facing increased persecution....

He probably hasn't even moved all of his furniture in yet, but newly elected House Majority Leader John Boehner is the subject of an attack from a...

Eritrean military authorities jailed 75 Protestant Christians last week at the Sawa Military Training Camp for "reading Bibles and praying during...

Palestinian militants angry over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in European newspapers issued threats against Europeans on...