Christian missionary Kevin Rideout has been released to U.S. custody after more than nine months of captivity following his ...

There has only been one war in which atomic bombs have been dropped. That was at the end of the Second World War II when on ...

A delegation from the World Council of Churches has made a solidarity visit to Ukraine, which it said is "walking in hope and praying with churches and communities for an end to the war," started by ...

Two of the top church leaders in the Holy Land have toured the Christian Palestinian town of Taybeh in the West Bank, the scene of several attacks by militant settlers in recent weeks, and charge that ...

An ecumenical delegation led by World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has met with the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as well as officials from the Zimbabwe ...

As AI-accelerated warfare is rapidly viewed as a means of allowing killing at unprecedented speed and scale, the World Council of Churches has signed a statement that calls on tech companies and ...

Pope Leo XIV has called on the Society of St Pius X, a group that has been at odds with the Vatican, urging it to abandon its planned episcopal consecrations without a papal mandate and warning of ...

Pope Leo XIV has used a visit honoring St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, viewed as the first American saint and patron saint of immigrants, to deliver his latest appeal on behalf of them. The visit carried ...

Leaders of major churches say that Israeli authorities are launching a "coordinated attack" on the Christian presence in the Holy Land by introducing tax measures against them. The churches say the ...

One instance cited by The Wall Street Journal on March 20 cited the case of nearly 20 people associated with Zion Church, a large, long-running Protestant congregation in Beijing, arrested in October, ...

Concerns are growing that the oldest Protestant church in Iran, and its surrounding buildings, may be demolished, after residents were ordered to evacuate by July 11. Several of the 20 Assyrian and ...

Attacks by Jews against Christians in the Holy Land could exceed those of 2025, according to a new 2026 report to the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue. The center reported that 155 incidents ...