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An independent panel warned Tuesday (May 13) that religious freedom in Afghanistan is perilously at risk unless the U.S.government presses for...

As Shia Muslims become more aggressive and vocal in their demands for an Islamic State based on Shari’ah the anti-Christian violence which...

Like most of their countrymen, Christians greeted the fall of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with celebration and hope. But in little more than a...

World Vision will seek to assist thousands of displaced persons living in dire conditions following post-war population upheavals in northern Iraq....

World Vision last week delivered emergency drugs to a northern Iraqi hospital that had not received regular supplies for three months.

700,000 Christians fear the establishment of an Islamic state governed by Shari’ah. The political and constitutional future of Iraq is an immediate...

An Arab convert to Christianity was killed in a bomb blast last night outside his Tripoli apartment, adjacent to the home of a European missionary...

Two Christians are facing deportation from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, while reports say Saudi authorities have questioned at least eight other church...

For several years now, radical Muslims in northern and central Nigeria have been carrying out a ‘holy’ war, or jihad, against Christians.

The Bush administration's goal of establishing democracy in Iraq may be difficult to achieve because the country has so few functioning social...

An outcry from Malaysian Christians has prompted the government of the predominantly Muslim country to reverse its ban on Bibles published in the...

Amid continuing reports of religious persecution in Laos, a lobbying battle is under way over whether the United States should grant normal trade...

For the past six years, members of the Evanston Vineyard church have been free to meet, sing and pray in the building they own in this suburb just...

Danger comes with the territory for Christian missionaries working abroad, but legions of them still appear eager to serve in foreign countries.

Charities ramping up U.S. campaigns to benefit war-torn Iraq are finding the early fund-raising climate much cooler than the 100-degree...