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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Leo's first encyclical of his papacy asserted that artificial intelligence is not inherently immoral, but that its adoption should be slowed to enable the development of moral guardrails and it ...

The Roman Catholic share of the population in several Latin American countries has shrunk over the last 10 years, while a growing percentage of adults in the region are religiously unaffiliated, ...

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 ...

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, ...