The United Nations is calling on governments, technology companies and advertisers to act on what it describes as a pressing and consequential policy challenge — the safety, rights and digital future of the world's most connected generation.
"Abide in me... that you bear much fruit, so showing yourselves to be my disciples". Such fruit is not the output of human effort, it is the result of the Holy Spirit's transformative work in our lives. So why to we invest such energy into achieving material outcomes?
In a lecture series at China Evangelical Seminary back in April, Alexander Chow, Senior Lecturer in Theology and World Christianity at New College, University of Edinburgh, established the need for Christians worldwide to listen to theologians from the Majority World. The future of the Global Church depends on us having ears to hear.
The anti-Christian realities in India provide ample evidence that a culture can quickly turn against freedom of religion. Sadly, in India, some Christian leaders claim that if there is one place you can go to remain unaware of what is happening, it is in established churches on a Sunday morning! Thankfully the Holy Spirit is not so constrained and Christians continue to multiply in the midst of heightening persecution.
In Myanmar, the Church is often the strongest surviving institution in an isolated community, destroying it weakens not only worship but the community’s capacity to resist the oppressive control of Myanmar's military junta. Christians are often thought of as collateral damage in Myanmar’s civil war, but they are also being targeted.
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In an exclusive interview with Christian Daily International, featured in today’s episode of Faith Without Frontiers, Shahbaz Bhatti’s nephew talks about the ways that his life’s direction was set as a child by the example of his uncle, Shahbaz Bhatti. So, the idea of a children’s book about Bhatti’s life makes sense.
As global tensions deepen and Chinese churches spread across the world, many Christian leaders are asking how they can overcome misunderstanding, bridge divides, and build greater trust and cooperation. The World Chinese Christianity Alliance (WCA), founded in 2023, has set out to be exactly that kind of bridge. It is the first alliance within the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) built around a shared ethnicity rather than a country or region.
As Pakistan observes National Minorities Day on Aug. 11, the legacy of slain Christian federal minister Shahbaz Bhatti continues to shape the country’s minority rights landscape through reforms that remain among the most significant protections secured for religious minorities since the Muslim-majority nation’s creation almost eighty years ago.
Pranitha "Pinky" Timothy, who spent decades fighting bonded labour and human trafficking across South Asia and served as the Lausanne Movement's regional director for the region, died Aug. 9, 2026, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She was 51.
Aneeqa Ishaq, a 16-year-old Christian girl in Lahore, Pakistan, took a job as a restaurant cashier for her family’s survival, but it ended with a coworker abducting her, forcing her to convert to Islam and coercing her to marry him, she said.
A sweeping new law regulating religious conversion took effect in Maharashtra last week, threatening to turn catechism classes, charity work and even prayer meetings into grounds for a police investigation, Christian leaders said.
Argentina’s adherence to the Geneva Consensus reopens the debate over the defense of life, the family, and national sovereignty in relation to abortion.
