Geneva - Credible reports of killings, abductions, sexual violence, forced conversion, forced marriage, abductions and acts ...

As part of a series of global prayers for peace, the World Council of Churches has invited people and churches worldwide to ...

The U.S. Defense Department will no longer allow military service members to claim around 180 different religious traditions ...

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 ...

The Swiss Peace Initiative for Nagorno-Karabakh was highlighted at the September session of the Human Rights Council and during a side event at the UN in Geneva, during the week ending Oct. 4, ...

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 ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he would raise concerns about jailed Catholic media tycoon and Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai and detained Chinese pastor Jin Mingri during his talks ...

The chair of the Ukrainian Council of Churches says that what unites all his country's Christian communities and other religious organizations, is "the shared longing for an end to the war, and a ...

More than 30 church and Christian leaders from across the US and India have signed a joint statement by the New York State Council of Churches and The Religious Nationalism Project, condemning "a ...

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, ...

Pope Leo XIV, the 69-year-old Chicago-born cardinal elected as the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, spent many years as a missionary in Peru and is the first North American to hold the papacy. "Peace ...

The Vatican has wished Donald Trump "much wisdom" after he was elected to be the 47 th president of the United States, while one evangelical leaders claimed his win was ordained by God, offering "a ...