CDI Staff

Fourth Younger Leaders Gathering 2025 (São Paulo, Brazil)

Religious freedom restricted as publication ban is upheld in Pakistan

Pakistan’s Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) on Tuesday (Sept. 8) ruled that the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom is subject to law, public policy and morality.

IMB commissions first Lumbee Native American couple to serve Canada's First Nations

The International Mission Board has commissioned RJ and Elayna Locklear as its first Lumbee Native American missionary couple, sending them to serve Canada's First Nations communities in and around Calgary, Alberta.

Afghanistan is the only country that bars girls past sixth grade. New research shows they are still learning.

Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where girls are shut out of school beyond the sixth grade, and where women are barred from university. Five years into that ban, new research suggests the classroom doors closed but the learning did not stop.

Rule change allows Brazilian pastor to resume Texas pastorate

A Brazilian pastor who left the United States in late 2025 rather than stay beyond the expiry of his visa is again leading his congregation in Texas, after a change in U.S. immigration rules ended a one-year waiting period for religious workers seeking to return, Baptist Press reported.

FEBC breaks ground on Phnom Penh ministry center after Cambodia broadcast expansion

Far East Broadcasting Company has begun construction on a ministry center in the Cambodian capital that will house studios for radio, podcast and video production, the broadcaster said in an announcement on Sept. 1.

Save the Parish report warns of 'existential' fall in Church of England parish clergy

Save the Parish, a campaign group within the Church of England, published a report Sept. 4 warning that the number of stipendiary parish clergy has fallen to crisis levels and that more priests are now leaving ministry by resignation than by retirement.

Lawmakers in Pakistan’s Punjab seek equal religious education opportunities for minority prisoners

Christian rights activists have welcomed a resolution adopted by the Punjab Provincial Assembly calling for equal opportunities for prisoners from religious minorities to receive religious education, take examinations and qualify for sentence remission.

Global Methodist Church adopts Articles of Faith, elects first full-time bishops at Johannesburg conference

The Global Methodist Church adopted a set of Articles of Faith and elected eight bishops to its first regular Assembly of Bishops during a General Conference that closed Saturday (Sept. 5) at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, the denomination said.

Pakistan’s PM honors Christian nurse who risked her life to save infant

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday, Sept. 2, praised a Christian nurse who risked her life to rescue an infant from a hospital fire that killed 14 newborns last week.

Gafcon-led Global Anglican Communion to establish headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria

Gafcon, the body governing the Anglican grouping that broke with Canterbury last year has decided to establish its headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, according to a communique released Aug. 29 by the Most Rev. Laurent Mbanda, chairman of the Global Anglican Council.

European evangelicals prepare for HOPE 2026

Evangelical leaders from across Europe will convene in Golem, Albania, Oct. 5-9, 2026, for HOPE 2026, a continental gathering aimed at addressing complex social, political and spiritual challenges.