Authorities in Sudan on July 8 demolished a church complex in Khartoum North, sources said. With no prior warning, bulldozers and trucked accompanied by police and armed forces personnel arrived at the compound of the Pentecostal Church in the El-Haj Yousif area of East Nile District at noon and began demolishing the church building, sources told local media.
South Africa celebrates Pride Month during October even as persecution of homosexuals is rising in other African states. This should be of concern for Christians as freedom of belief has long been a commitment of Protestant Christians. It doesn’t mean Christians must agree with differing beliefs, but it does mean that we must support the human right of others to hold, practice, and celebrate their beliefs as we have the right to hold, practice, and celebrate ours.
After a miraculous healing and turning to Jesus, an Indian family has faced persistent persecution. Recently it became so fierce they were forced to flee. Nevertheless, a powerful witness to faith in Christ remains in their village that we pray will one day bear much fruit. Here is their first-hand story.
Five years ago, on August 4, 2020 one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions in history rocked Lebanon’s capital, Beirut. Today the entire nation is still struggling to recover from the tragedy on top of many other pressures, external and internal, bearing down on the population of Lebanon. Here, we receive an insider's perspective.
The United States is a nation gripped afresh by violence. Many of its people are struggling to feel, to understand, to see a way forward. US peace and reconciliation advocate, Jim Eaton, calls Christians to a better way, the way of Jesus; a way that is not partisan but peaceful, not livid but loving.
During an evening worship service on Monday (July 7), suspected Islamic extremists gunned down a Baptist pastor and another worshipper and kidnapped a woman in Katsina state, northwest Nigeria.
A Christian legal rights group in Australia is under investigation by a regional anti-discrimination commissioner for quoting statements about gender policy made by the national Greens party, a group leader said.
Despite an agreement Christians in Indonesia signed to refrain from taking legal action against a Muslim group that attacked their retreat site, the West Java governor has urged legal action against the assailants, sources said.
A court on Tuesday (July 8) acquitted two Christian youths of a false blasphemy charge rooted in a minor dispute, their lawyer said.
Kenya hosted the first-ever International Religious Freedom Summit in Africa with delegates from across the globe convening in Nairobi mid-June to deliberate on the theme - Africa Together: A Continental Call to Religious Call to Religious Freedom.
In a significant development, a court in Pakistan refused to hand custody of a Catholic girl to a Muslim who abducted and forcibly converted/married her, noting that as a minor she could not go with him even if she said she was willing to do so, sources said.
A massacre in the Sudanese town of El Fasher has worsened the refugee crisis in South Sudan as more people escape the war in Sudan, according to Christian Aid.
