Concerns are growing that the oldest Protestant church in Iran, and its surrounding buildings, may be demolished, after ...

Chinese authorities have released Jin Mingri, an underground church leader, from prison, and he has travelled to the United ...

The first North American-born pope, Leo XIV, has used a symbolic visit to Lampedusa, Italy's migrant gateway, to urge the ...

The U.S. Defense Department will no longer allow military service members to claim around 180 different religious traditions in their personnel records, leaving only 31 to choose from, and 22 of them ...

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 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 ...

U.S. evangelist Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse, has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin. During their May 29 ...

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 ...

People in Gaza are facing starvation, and more Jewish groups have joined global religious voices in stepped-up calls for immediate aid and respect for human life as Israeli hoztages stay captured and ...

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 ...

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay met with the prime minister of troubled Sudan, Kamil Idris, at the council's office in Geneva, delivering a message calling for justice, ...

Such threats are reported in the mass media from North America and Europe. But the problem is spread much further afield. The Vicar-General of the Anglican Church in South Africa, Bishop Stephen ...