Religion Today Archives

Saeed Abedini’s mother has been forced to leave Iran after receiving multiple threats to her life.

The Mars Hill organization will soon cease to exist, as church leaders have decided to “dissolve” the multi-site organization and allow its...

Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly came out as gay and called his sexuality “among the greatest gifts God has given me” this week in a personally written...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recently insulted by an unidentified White House official. The White House is now attempting to ease...

A landslide in the south-central village of Haldummulla, Sri Lanka, has caused the deaths of at least 10 people. Another 300 people have been...

Football coaches at Cape Henlopen High School in Delaware will no longer be permitted to pray with student athletes after a complaint from the...

An Iranian woman was hanged on Saturday (Oct. 25) after being charged with killing a former intelligence ministry worker she said was attempting to...

A student opened fire at Marysville Pilchuck High School in Washington State this morning (Oct. 24), then turned the gun on himself.

A Muslim convert fatally shot a Canadian soldier on Wednesday. The soldier, Corporal Nathan Cirillo, was shot in the abdomen at the National War...

Jeffrey Fowle, the American Christian who has been held in North Korea since May, has been released.

Boko Haram militants broke the established ceasefire with Nigerian troops on Sunday (Oct. 19), deflating hopes that the kidnapped schoolgirls would...

Two Christian pastors in Idaho have filed a lawsuit and asked the courts to temporarily restrain city officials from making them perform same-sex...

The Nigerian government has ordered its troops to halt fighting against Boko Haram militants. According to Nigerian authorities, the Muslim...

Mark Driscoll resigned from his Seattle church Tuesday (Oct. 14), according to a document obtained by RNS.

Pastors in Houston have been ordered to turn their sermons that address homosexuality over to the city or be held in contempt of the court.