Pakistan’s Christian community expressed shock and grief after a gas cylinder explosion during post-wedding celebrations killed at least eight Christians, including newlyweds, and injured more than a dozen others early Jan. 11 at a family home in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.
About 4.1 billion people, half of the global population, suffer some degree of religious persecution in 24 countries, according to an aid agency report that identified a disturbing rise in anti-Christian incidents in Western countries.
A senior Irish evangelical leader has said the prolonged imprisonment of teacher Enoch Burke is the result of his own conduct and defiance of court orders, not his beliefs about gender or transgender issues. Nick Park, executive director of the Evangelical Alliance in Ireland, told the Irish Independent that Burke’s “un-Christian,” “insulting” and “disruptive” behavior — rather than his views — lies at the center of the case, which has become one of Ireland’s most contentious legal and cultural
Prison Fellowship International said its in-prison evangelism program has reached a milestone, graduating its one millionth participant since the initiative launched more than a decade ago.
The European Evangelical Alliance is encouraging its members to take time to “pause” in prayerful reflection as the 2026 Week of Prayer got underway Jan. 11 and continues through Jan. 18. Robbert Jan Perk, co-chair of the EEA Prayer Network, urged churches and individuals across Europe to approach the week with renewed attentiveness to prayer, drawing on Acts 2:42: “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”
Nigeria’s Lutheran archbishop has been elected president of a major evangelical church body in the country, marking a leadership transition that comes weeks after the death of his predecessor. The Most Rev. Dr. Musa Panti Filibus, archbishop of the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria (LCCN), was elected Jan. 10 as president of the Fellowship of Churches of Christ in Nigeria, commonly known as TEKAN — from its Hausa name, Tarayyar Ekklesiyoyin Kristi a Nijeriya — during the group’s 70th General
With a series of messages, concerts by international Christian singers, and family-focused reflections, the fourth edition of the UNIFEST Festival was held at the Sierra Hermosa Ecological and Sports Park in Tecámac, in the State of Mexico last month. Organizers estimated that 90,000 people attended the event.
Two Christians in Iran sentenced to prison for their faith were locked up on Dec. 16 and 20, and a Christian woman was summoned to begin serving her five-year prison term two days before Christmas, an advocacy group stated.
The Muslim family of an 18-year-old Sudanese refugee in the northern border region of South Sudan on Thursday evening (Jan. 8) expelled her from their home for her faith in Christ, sources said.
California pastor Russ Ewell and his wife, Gail, know firsthand the struggles parents face finding churches that know how to care for and minister to their children with severe disabilities, a barrier within church and community settings they are now helping congregations break.
Efforts are underway to seek UNESCO World Documentary Heritage inscription and national documentary cultural heritage designation for EXPLO ’74, a large-scale evangelistic gathering widely regarded as a catalyst for Korea’s national evangelization movement and the rapid growth of the Korean church.
Christian and Hindu leaders in the United Kingdom have voiced disquiet about the government’s proposed definition of anti-Muslim hatred, warning that it threatens religious liberty and free speech.
