Christian Today
EFICOR Provides Second Phase of Relief for Bihar Flood Victims
The relief intervention in Bihar is continuing in full swing, according to a report made by the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief (EFICOR). Because of the large impact of the floods...
Government Officials Pushing on Blasphemy Law Revision
Since the ‘blasphemy law’ was enacted in Pakistan in 1986, many Pakistani Christians have been falsely accused of blaspheming Mohammed or the Koran, a crime punishable by death. However, sources say that government officials in Pakistan are pushing for...
Thousands in Nigeria Still Displaced Three Months After Religious Clashes
Three months after a spate of attacks on Christians in Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria, thousands of people are still displaced from their homes and in dire need of shelter...
Dozens more Montagnard Christians Emerge from Cambodian Jungle
Dozens more Montagnard Christians, many of them sick and exhausted, have emerged from the Cambodian jungle in recent days after fleeing neighbouring Vietnam, refugee groups said on Monday...
True Love Waits Makes Its Way to the 2004 Olympic Games
True Love Waits, a ministry of LifeWay Christian Resources, will host “An Evening with the Olympians: True Love Waits” in Athens. The event will take place at Dora Stratou Theatre which is located at the base of the Acropolis on Aug 22...
Intense Grieving Follows Burundi Massacre
Thousands of grieving people attended a grim funeral service on Monday after Hutu extremists slaughtered more than 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees at a U.N. camp in Burundi...
Nigerian Anglican Primate tells AYF to set up "Living Faith"
The Primate of all Nigeria's Anglican Communion, Rev J Akinola, gave a keynote address for the opening of the 47th Annual Bible Study Conference of the Anglican Youth Fellowship...
An Update on the Persecution of Christians in China
A Christian persecution watchdog group is urging the release of Chinese Christians who have been victims of the most recent crackdowns. While international outcries have led to the release of many imprisoned believers, the Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) reports...
Orthodox voices are heard but not always understood
The Great Schism of 1054 marked the break between western and eastern Christianity. The latter call themselves “Orthodox”, meaning “having preserved the right way of glorifying God”. The reasons for the separation were theological...
Iraqi Christians Receive Aid to Rebuild Nation
As attacks on Iraq's Christian minority have been steadily increasing since late spring, culminating in the bombing of five Christian churches in Baghdad and Mosul on Sunday, Christians have reportedly been fleeing...
Iraqi Christians Flee Violence
One week after attacks on five Christian churches in Iraq left 12 people dead and scores injured, sources say that an exodus of Christians from Iraq to countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Australia can be expected...
Iraqi Christians Continuing to Receive Aid to Rebuild Nation
As attacks on Iraq's Christian minority have been steadily increasing since late spring, culminating in the bombing of five Christian churches in Baghdad and Mosul on Sunday, Christians have reportedly been fleeing...
Iraqi Christians Fleeing Insecure Nation
One week after attacks on five Christian churches in Iraq left 12 people dead and scores injured, sources say that an exodus of Christians from Iraq to countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Australia can be expected...
Plea for More European Support to Sudan
Over a million civilians in the Darfur region of West Sudan have fled from their homes due to the war between rebels and Janjaweed militia. The flood of people has caused an outcry...
CSW demonstrate for 1988 Burma Masacre
On 6th August, Christians and human rights activists will protest and march from Berkeley Square in London W1 to the Burmese Embassy in Charles Street, to remember the student demonstration in Burma in 1988 in which thousands were massacred...
Church World Service Calls For Quick Intervention in Sudan
A global humanitarian agency called on citizens today to immediately pressure the United Nations and world bodies to intervene more quickly and definitively to protect more than one million Africans threatened by the escalating crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan...