Saudi-born Christian evangelist Ahmed Joktan shares how a dream led him to Jesus, the brutal persecution he endured after converting from Islam and why he's urging Western Christians to boldly share the Gospel with their Muslim neighbors.
Religious freedom advocates told a gathering in Texas that armed conflict and state surveillance are undermining the methods Christians have used to defend persecuted believers. They said a divided global church is poorly placed to respond.
Christians in Nigeria were killed at a rate of one every 86 minutes between Jan. 1 and Sept. 8, most of them in a region that receives low priority in Nigerian and U.S. security policy, a new report by a U.S.-based aid agency shows.
A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Tuesday urging him to press Chinese President Xi Jinping on Beijing's persecution of Christian pastors and other religious minorities during their bilateral summit this week in Washington.
President Donald Trump delivered an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, threatening to annihilate the Iranian regime if they neglect to make a deal with the United States after the midterm elections.
Two U.N. experts have demanded Iran explain the confiscation of the country’s oldest Protestant church, it has emerged.
Pastor Ding Shuqi of the persecuted Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, urged the world to remember the plight of Chinese Christians, whose freedoms he said are being crushed by the Chinese Communist Party.
Special forces police in Algeria raided a worship service at a humanitarian shelter on Sept. 4, arresting all 12 Christians present on suspicion of holding an unauthorized, non-Muslim religious service.
A Christian family in India’s Chhattisgarh state was pressured by villagers into conducting Hindu funeral rites for a dead relative after residents refused to allow a burial under her own faith.
A married, 21-year-old Christian woman was shot dead inside her home in Rawalpindi last week by a Muslim neighbor whose advances she had rejected, reflecting an attitude among many Pakistan Muslims that crimes against Christians will go unpunished, sources said.
