Despite continued persecution from Muslim extremists, Christians in Egypt remain unwavering in their faith, compelling a ‘multitude’ to come to Christ, church leaders have revealed.
Church attendance by Roman Catholics in the United States has hit a new low, according to a study released on Monday by Gallup, while Protestants are seeing a big drop in their demographic.
The Communist Chinese government banned the sale of Bibles online this week and released a new document dictating its ‘Policies and Practices on Protecting Freedom of Religious Belief.’
Rwanda’s government has closed thousands of churches and dozens of mosques as it seeks to assert more control over a vibrant religious community whose sometimes makeshift operations, authorities say, have threatened the lives of followers.
A joint commission of Turkey’s major Christian denominations has published a historic book of concise Christian doctrine, receiving the unprecedented endorsement of all the nation’s Orthodox, Catholic, Armenian, Syriac, and Protestant churches.
Church members at First United Methodist Church of Louisville, Mississippi have overwhelmingly voted to withdraw the congregation’s membership from the UMC denomination, citing a number of issues including homosexuality and abortion as the reasons.
A special committee set up to review church registration applications legalised the status of 53 Egyptian churches and related buildings on 26 February, but thousands more still await registration.
It’s one of the most well-known passages in the Bible that commands followers of Jesus Christ to ‘go and make disciples of all nations,’ yet a new study shows a shocking number of American Christians have never heard of what is commonly known as ‘the Great Commission.’
Sen. James Inhofe said he will introduce legislation aimed at preventing illegal immigrants who make it over the U.S. border from disappearing into the country due to overcrowded detention centers.
Many Christians – all of them former Muslims – feared a genocide as they saw radical Islamic groups on their way to the Syrian city of Afrin. CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell talked with one humanitarian aid worker who helped these Christians find a safe haven.
On Saturday, thousands of people participated in a ‘March for Our Lives’ in cities across the country to bring attention to the problem of gun violence in our nation.
At least seven Christian worshippers were injured in an armed attack by local Muslims on a church service on Sunday (March 18) in southern Punjab Province, Pakistan, the church pastor told Morning Star News.
The pastor of a church in Tajikistan has called for prayer after secret police raided a church worship service on Sunday 11 March 2018.
Local government officials in the second most populous county in Kansas are grappling with a challenge by atheists to a decades-old practice of opening meetings with prayer, prompting a Sedgwick County Commissioner to say during a public meeting Tuesday that if they don’t believe in God, he doesn’t care if they ‘go to hell.’
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on March 9, 2018, a Christian family of three living in Baghdad was found dead in their home. An investigation showed that they had been stabbed to death the previous day by an armed group and their valuables were stolen. The victims are Dr. Hisham Shafiq al-Maskuni, his wife Shaza Malik, and his elderly mother Khairiya Dawood.
An alarming number of pastors have taken their own lives in the last five years. And despite the increasing prevalence of suicide nationally, and the troubling rates at which the epidemic has been affecting certain groups of clergy, many churches remain silent on the issue.
Rwandan police have arrested six Christian pastors on grounds that they are planning to defy a recent order that closed more than 700 churches that allegedly don’t meet safety and cleanliness standards.
The weekly Islamic State newsletter that usually focuses on internal headlines within remaining caliphate territory devoted a section to discussing attacks on U.S. embassies and kidnappings of westerners in locales not usually touched by the terror group.
Under a large white tent evoking her father’s ‘Canvas Cathedral’ revival nearly seven decades ago, Anne Graham Lotz urged the Church, the world, and herself to ‘wake up!’ as she joined her siblings and some 2,000 others at the funeral of her iconic evangelist father, Billy Graham, in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Friday.
Billy Graham’s daughter, Anne Graham Lotz, says that she believes her father’s death will serve as a ‘Heaven’s shot across the bow’ to the Church today and stated that, in general, the failure of churches are the reason why the United States is in a spiritual ‘mess.’