Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that his government will not pass a bill that would criminalize Christian evangelism, a proposal that drew concern from American Evangelicals.
In a recent wave of violence, militants targeted Christian communities in Nigeria's Kaduna state resulting in at least 27 deaths.
For leaving Islam to accept Christ, a young mother in Sudan was chained in her home, subjected to electrical shocks at a psychiactric hospital and has lost her children, a local source said.
Little did Dr Alice Muriel Griffiths know that she would inspire her descendants to combine medicine and faith as she headed off to India as a missionary to treat patients with leprosy in the 1920s.
An American missionary pilot and two other men who were jailed in Mozambique for more than four months on suspicion of supporting insurgents in the war-torn nation have been released from prison.
Police in Vienna are warning the public of a threat of an Islamist attack on churches and other places of worship.
"If we have been doing things in an excessive manner or that are out of alignment with our mission those things will stop," Hillsong said in response to the claims.
After more than four months in prison, a Christian missionary pilot is finding comfort where so many others have — in the pages of Scripture.
Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill has called on other religious leaders, including Pope Francis, to urge Ukraine not to close down a monastery historically tied to Russia.
Professor Gabriël A Moens argues that there are sometimes grounds for breaking the law.
Release International associates support church leaders in areas where Russian forces have persecuted Christians.
Several people have been killed in a shooting at a Jehovah's Witness meeting hall in the Germany city of Hamburg.
