The US State Department has stated it is working to secure the release of an American Christian nurse and her daughter who were kidnapped in Haiti last week, but declined to give any information on who the abductors might be or whether they have made any ransom demands, USA Today reports. Poverty and disaster-stricken Haiti has long been plagued by extreme gang violence and political instability.
St Louis, Missouri saw some 36,000 young Christians flock to town last week to attend the biennial North American Youth Congress hosted by the United Pentecostal Church International ministry, the St Louis Post Dispatch (STL) reports. Focused on ministering to students and young adults, the conference was held between July 26-28 at America’s Center.
Wycliffe Associates, an international organization that empowers mother-tongue Bible translators and partners with local churches in the advancement of Bible translation, has developed a new language for the Deaf and Deaf-Blind community, which is now being used in both public and private schools in Africa.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) reported on Monday that a number of European Union nations have been discriminating against their own religious minority communities while advocating religious freedom abroad, the Washington Times reports.
A new survey by Gallup shows there has been a substantial decline in religious faith among young adults over the last 20 years, with fewer than 60% now saying they believe in God, the Washington Examiner reports.
A progressive college town in Idaho agreed to pay $300,000 to a group of Christians who were arrested for having an outdoor church service without masks during the COVID19 pandemic.
Researchers in California have launched a ground-breaking initiative to use Artificial Intelligence technology to translate the Bible into thousands of languages that do not have a written version of the Scriptures, Relevant Magazine reports.
The Church of England is working on finalizing its Prayers of Love and Faith (PLF) and Pastoral Guidance documents to be used by clergy who choose to hold blessing ceremonies in church for same-sex civil unions, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
The leader of Trans World Radio (TWR) says the Christian network needs $338,000 to resume regular radio broadcasts to “North Korea, China, Indonesia and beyond” after its transmitter site on the U.S. territory of Guam was destroyed by a typhoon.
A Catholic charity says more than half of the world’s population lives in countries where Christians and others face religious persecution.
Responding to the needs of Christians in parts of the world where it is difficult to access the internet, the developers of the popular YouVersion Bible app have launched a new version of it which can be used offline, Christianity Today (CT) reports. App developers from Life.Church in Oklahoma joined with the global Bible ministry Biblica in creating the offline YouVersion Bible App Lite.
A new survey of American Protestant Churchgoers shows that watching live-stream church services instead of attending in person remains a popular option, with nearly 40% saying they watched online more than five times in the past year, Relevant Magazine reports. The poll was conducted by Lifeway Research between September 19-29, 2022 with 1,002 participants.
A Christian teaching assistant who lost her job in England after publicly opposing transgender books in primary schools has won an appeal in a case seen as crucial for “freedom of belief and freedom of expression,” her advocates told Worthy News.
In the years following the police killing of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, groups of US evangelicals have been quietly working on racial reconciliation in the church and US society at large, according to the Roys Report (RR).
Hundreds of Protestant Christians in southeastern Germany have attended a church service that was nearly entirely generated by artificial intelligence (AI) despite warnings the invention could destroy humanity.
The Christian organization Aid to the Church in Need (ACN UK) on Monday presented a petition to the UK government calling for more to be done to stop the “genocidal attacks” by Islamic militants on Christians in Nigeria, Christian Today (CT) reports. At least 50,250 Christians have been murdered by jihadists in Nigeria since 2009, as the international community and the Nigerian government largely stood by.
Pat Robertson, the famed American televangelist who once ran for president and founded the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), has died. He was 93, his son and the network announced.
A new study by Lifeway Research shows that fewer US Protestant churchgoers are actively participating in adoption and foster care than they were five years ago. At the same time, the study found that church leaders are increasingly encouraging their congregations to adopt or foster children.
An Australian missionary doctor is recovering after being released by Islamic militants who held him for seven long years in West Africa, Worthy News learned Thursday.
A new survey published by Lifeway Research shows that 75% of pastors say they are extremely stressed, and 90% report they work between 55-75 hours per week, CBN News reports. The survey was part of Lifeway Research’s 2022 Greatest Needs of Pastors study, and was conducted with 200 US pastors.