2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (401+ words) Pope Leo XIV celebrated Pentecost with a call to the Holy Spirit to save humanity from "the evil of war" and urged the faithful to see themselves as active bearers of the Gospel rather than as passive guardians of it....

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (336+ words) Religious freedom in India is on a "downward trajectory," says a U. S. commission that has heard renewed warnings about discrimination, arbitrary detention and violence directed against Christians and other religious minorities. At a May 7 hearing on Capitol Hill, members of the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (531+ words) The chair of the Ukrainian Council of Churches says that what unites all his country's Christian communities and other religious organizations, is "the shared longing for an end to the war, and a commitment to prayer for peace." Bishop S'ndor…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (875+ words) Religious switching within Christianity has affected the two largest subgroups " Catholicism and Protestantism " differently, with Catholics tending to lose more than Protestants, Pew Research reports. Christianity has experienced some of the largest losses from religious switching of any faith group…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (580+ words) When Pope Leo XIV met the first woman to lead the world's Anglican Christians, the newly enthroned Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, he said Anglicans and Catholics must continue working to overcome differences. Pope Leo held an audience on April…...

1+ mon, 21+ hour ago  (384+ words) (Screenshot from TV footage of Trump using the Bible as a prop.) Anti-war, anti-ICE, anti-authoritarian Christians are organising around their faith in opposition to the version claimed by Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, which is sometimes referrred to as Chrristian…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (481+ words) World Council of Churches general secretary'Rev. Jerry Pillay is deeply aggrieved by the desecration of a statue of Jesus on the cross by an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon, depicted in a widely-circulated image. "We join Christians in the region…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (616+ words) Chinese authorities are increasingly putting pressure on Christian leaders who do not comply with state control. One instance cited by The Wall Street Journal'on March 20 cited the case of nearly 20 people associated with Zion Church, a large, long-running Protestant congregation…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (372+ words) A group of 25, 000 Christians in Islamabad, Pakistan, are being asked suddenly to leave their homes by the nation's Islamic authorities, some years after a teenage Christian had been falsely accused some time ago of blasphemy. Christian families living in the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (373+ words) In his first "urbi et orbi" Easter Sunday address, Pope Leo XIV used the words of his predecessor and warned of the globalization of indifference to growing conflicts, urging those fighting to lay down their weapons. "We are growing accustomed…...