China has arrested scores of Christian pastors in a sweeping crackdown on unregistered churches, which illustrates President ...

It is one of the world's smallest armies and is said to be the oldest operating in the tiniest state on the planet. Now the ...

It is not always easy to be a Christian in Pakistan, where prisoners who are followers of the faith and adherents of other ...

World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has welcomed the news of the release of Israeli hostages and ...

The Second World War ended just over eighty years ago, and this month, German church figures have remembered German theologian and anti-Nazi resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed as ...

A Roman Catholic priest from Nigeria, Father Lawrence Iwuamadi, is the new academic dean of the World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, just outside Geneva. It is not the first time ...

India's Christian community had a year marked by increasing challenges and persecution in 2024, data from various research shows. Data from various organizations paint a sobering picture of the ...

A UN-hosted high-level event has provided a platform to come together to examine how to prevent and address violations against children swept into armed conflict, with worldwide religious ...

On the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks led by Hamas in Israel Pope Leo XIV and the World Council of Churches head Rev. Jerry Pillay reflected sombrely on the pain the world has suffered since ...

WITTENBERG, Germany – Five hundred years after the 16th century Reformer Martin Luther is said to have nailed his epoch-changing 95 protests to a church door in the eastern German town of Wittenberg, ...

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 ...

Mainly Muslim Indonesia has inaugurated the world's tallest statue of Jesus, which is 61 meters (200 feet) tall, at a tourist site in the North Sumatra province. Located on top of a hill next to the ...