The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Safeguarding in Faith Communities (APPG) has started an inquiry aimed at improving child protection in churches, mosques, temples, and other faith-based settings.
A documentary about indigenous land dispossession and military violence in West Papua has been watched more than 13.6 million times on YouTube within days, after Indonesian authorities failed to suppress organized screenings in cities throughout the country. More than 107,000 people in April 2026 have been displaced and most of them Christian.
Pastors in small churches in India and around the world may lack formal theological education but responsibility shapes them, failure shapes them, suffering shapes them, prayer shapes them. Sometimes persecution shapes them. Character formation while walking faithfully with Jesus, guided by the Bible and trustworthy mentors, cannot be replicated by a program, and does not result in a diploma, but it is highly valuable education nonetheless.
Ebola has been spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. A terrifying disease, it must be handled with great pastoral wisdom and care. The former Chairman of the World Evangelical Alliance's International Council provides advice to the Church, which at first may seem counter-intuitive for followers of Jesus.
As Lebanon suffers under yet another war, the campus of a local seminary has become a safe haven for traumatized children; helping them to process their emotions in a healthy way guided by the Bible. Here is a glimpse into the Salt and Light program for children at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary.
Rights groups, including Christian organizations advocating for persecuted communities, are warning that a recent high court ruling in Pakistan could significantly expand government oversight of civil society and restrict the ability of nonprofits to operate, particularly those reliant on foreign funding.
The Evangelical Confederation of Colombia (CEDECOL) was recognized by the Bogotá Metropolitan Police and the Ministry of the Interior during the first Interfaith Meeting on Peace and Security, an event aimed at strengthening collaboration between religious organizations and government institutions in building social harmony.
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves and President-elect Laura Fernández met Thursday with leaders of the Federation of the Costa Rican Evangelical Alliance (FAEC) to discuss religious freedom and social policy ahead of the May 8 transition of power.
The Church Resources Exhibition (CRE), previously known as the Christian Resources Exhibition, has announced evangelist J.John as a keynote speaker for its newly launched Church Leaders Conference in England this October.
With the goal of advancing values-driven communication, innovation and global reach, the Creativoz conference will hold its virtual edition May 15-16, 2026.
By the time Lee Strobel began investigating the claims of Christianity in the early 1980s, the tools at his disposal were largely historical: ancient texts, eyewitness accounts and philosophical arguments. Science has always played a role when it comes to making a case for Christianity, but according to the apologist, not nearly the one it does today.
Swiss voters have turned down a proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million, delivering a narrow but clear rebuke to the right-wing Swiss People's Party in one of the most closely watched referendums in recent years, according to the Swiss evangelical news portal Livenet.ch.
