World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has expressed deep concern over the suffering caused by the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he would raise concerns about jailed Catholic media tycoon and Hong Kong pro-democracy ...

Around 388 million Christians around the world face some form of intense persecution or discrimination for following Jesus Christ, the 2026 World Watch List, recently released by Open Doors U.S. has ...

From 2010 to 2020, the share of the population affiliated with any religion dropped at least 5 percentage points in 35 countries, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. It dropped ...

A proposed UK law to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales ran out of time to become law, almost 17 months after Members of Parliament first voted in favor of it. The bill stalled on April 24 ...

Religious freedom in India is on a "downward trajectory," says a U.S. commission that has heard renewed warnings about discrimination, arbitrary detention and violence directed against Christians and ...

Thousands of Palestinian Christians and Muslims gathered in Bethlehem's Manger Square, in front of the Church of the Nativity at the weekend for the Christmas tree lighting ceremony - the first one in ...

Harvard Divinity School has said it is pausing its Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, a program focused on Israel-Palestine as a case study. On April 2, the prestigious school cut the last ...

A gathering at the World Council of Churches has highlighted the right to health and dignified access to it, as well as the faith sector's engagement with migrants and refugees for health and HIV ...

Pope Leo XIV is facing a challenge from traditionalist Roman Catholics, a splinter group supporting the traditional Latin Mass, which has announced plans to consecrate new bishops without papal ...

The World Council of Churches and the Christian Conference of Asia have expressed profound dismay at the ongoing violence and the brutal attacks by military and security forces against peaceful ...