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A high school in New York State is being threatened with a federal lawsuit over its refusal to grant official recognition to a Christian student...

As the country passes the 6-month anniversary of the July terrorist attacks on London, the British government has dropped plans to close...

A U.S. United Methodist Church delegation on human rights in the Philippines has called upon President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to take a more...

A Navy chaplain who faced termination of his 14- year career without retirement, partly because he prayed publicly "in Jesus' Name" has accepted a...

Police decided on Jan. 3 to allow a makeshift Hindu temple in Umarkote village, but banned Christians from worshiping at a nearby house church...

At least 40 pastors, elders and leading laymen from five of Eritrea’s banned Protestant churches have been arrested from their homes or offices in...

Leaders of a recent conference in Mecca, which emphasized the safeguarding of historic and holy Islamic sites in Jerusalem, are being criticized...

A Christian educators group is expressing dismay over a recent court ruling its members feel censors Pennsylvania public school science teachers....

As the world marked the first anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Dec. 26, most pundits acknowledged that the outpouring of generosity was...

Dr. Carl Moeller, president of Open Doors USA says there was a noticeable increase in persecution of Christians throughout the world in 2005. That...

A conservative advocacy group is urging its supporters to protest an upcoming NBC television series that portrays a "completely dysfunctional...

Orthodox Jews disrupted a Messianic congregation's worship service in the Israeli town of Beersheba on Saturday (December 24). During the service,...

A coalition of groups related to the United Methodist Church is calling on the denomination to reverse rulings by its highest court that went...

Prisoners are following the path from social troublemaker to redeemed helper ... finding God behind bars and now helping others find Him on the...

The president of Liberty Counsel says the federal government should issue guidelines designed to prevent religious discrimination in nursing homes...