
Christian girl, 12, forcibly converted/married in Pakistan
A Muslim in Pakistan has abducted and forcibly converted and married a 12-year-old Christian girl after police delayed efforts to recover her, family members said.
A Muslim in Pakistan has abducted and forcibly converted and married a 12-year-old Christian girl after police delayed efforts to recover her, family members said.
In April 2025, more than a hundred pastors, theologians, and ministry practitioners from around the world gathered in Toronto, Canada, for the first-ever Chinese Diaspora Network Consultation. Our guest contributor, Andrea Lee provides an overview of the findings from this historic gathering.
In observance of the International Day of Families on May 15, PC Mathew, founding director of Urban India Ministries (a leading family ministry in South Asia) and head of the World Evangelical Alliance Family Challenge, shares his insights on Christ-like families and their impact on generations around the world.
The idea that Chinese Christians have a responsibility to take the gospel "back to Jerusalem" has become widely popularized but it fails to recognize a much larger perspective. The role of China’s church in world evangelization has more to do with intentionality of heart than with getting to any one particular destination. Chinese believers among diaspora worldwide have great potential to advance the gospel everywhere, but it requires a shift of thinking away from traditional missions paradigms.
In this opinion from personal experience, the author describes the radical transformation of his home village from a so-called "village of thieves” into a Christian community built on faith, hope, and love. He tells the story of an unlikely group of villains who have their lives profoundly changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Wissam al-Saliby never dreamed of leaving his beloved country of Lebanon, but the call from God to help the persecuted church was strong.
Muslim athlete Arshad Nadeem who won a javelin gold medal at the Paris Olympics for a world record-breaking throw has received a hero’s welcome, sponsorships and significant financial rewards from the government. Three remarkable sisters who have etched their names in history by consistently winning gold medals for Pakistan in the sport of powerlifting, however, have watched the happenings with mixed feelings.
A Muslim in Pakistan who kidnapped and raped a mentally handicapped Christian woman who died from her injuries two days after her release is pressuring her family to drop charges, sources said.
Europeans are least likely to say that religion is very important in their lives, compared to other parts of the world, and only 42 percent of Americans claim that religion is personally crucial to them. Other parts of the world responded more affirmingly on the importance of religion, specifically within sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. The picture was less clear in South and Southeast Asia, compared to the polarized views in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.
Despite attempts by the Pakistani government and Islamist groups to thwart protest rallies and marches, Christians in several cities came out in large numbers to mark National Minorities Day on Aug. 11, demanding an end to religious intolerance and abuse of blasphemy laws.
A Muslim mob in Pakistan on Wednesday (Aug. 7) attacked and tried to kill a Christian mother accused of blasphemy, sources said.