Nigeria is facing a terrifying crisis of religious violence and according to recent estimates, targeted violence has claimed ...

The Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church has installed its first woman bishop, Catherine Ngina Musau, at a ceremony attended by thousands of people. After her May 24 installation, she urged Christians to ...

The first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV asserts that artificial intelligence is not inherently immoral, but that its adoption ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Pentecost with a call to the Holy Spirit to save humanity from "the evil of war" and urged the faithful to see themselves as active bearers of the Gospel rather than as passive ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

For decades, church attendance and nominal adherence to Christianity have been declining in England and Wales, and it has been assumed that this decline would continue, says Paul Williams, CEO of the ...

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 ...

Both warring partners have consistently targeted Sudan's Christian community since the beginning of the Sudan war in acts that can be considered war crimes and crimes against humanity. Since April 15, ...