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An American pastor is offering to trade places with a Nigerian Christian sentenced to death by hanging for killing a Fulani herdsman during an attack on the man’s farm, pointing to Christ’s sacrifice on the cross as the reason for his actions.
Former Israeli hostage Tal Shoham spent 505 days in Hamas captivity and was released on Feb. 22. He gave his first interview since returning from Gaza last month in a conversation with Fox News, where he reportedly addressed Hamas terrorists, saying: "If you want to kill me, kill me, but you will not execute me like ISIS.”
The Vatican has released a photograph of Pope Francis in a wheelchair, offering the public a glimpse of the 88-year-old pontiff as he recovers from double pneumonia.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has spoken about her six years of imprisonment in Iran and her complex relationship with faith during and after her ordeal.
A 12-year-old Christian girl was reunited with her parents last week after being abducted two months ago by a Muslim neighbor who forcibly converted her to Islam and coerced her into marrying him, sources said.
A British court has thrown out the prosecution of a Christian preacher who faced charges stemming from a heated confrontation with an angry Islamic mob in Walsall. The judge dismissed the case after prosecutors declined to present evidence, citing insufficient grounds for proceeding with the charges.
A retired Baptist pastor has been charged with violating the controversial buffer zone law in Northern Ireland after delivering an open-air sermon based on the Bible verse John 3:16.
Nearly 200,000 Christians gathered in a village in Arunachal Pradesh, a northeastern Indian state, to protest the impending implementation of an anti-conversion law. The legislation, criticized as a tool for targeting the Christian community, is set to be enforced following a directive from the state’s High Court.
A high court judge in Pakistan resigned last week after a media report exposed his alleged close ties with a criminal gang falsely charging Christians and others with blasphemy, sources said.
