An Iraqi Christian woman forcibly registered as Muslim can change religious affiliation in the official state database, Iraq’s highest appeals court ruled.
On this day 69 years ago, the late Rev. Billy Graham concluded a Crusade that lasted nearly 16 weeks— beginning May 15, 1957, and ending Sept. 1 — and further solidified the preacher’s status as the leading evangelist of his era.
In 2009, John Cooper and his band, Skillet, unleashed the song “Monster.” Seventeen years later, that same track became the first by a Christian rock artist to crack Spotify’s Billions Club, surpassing 1 billion streams on the platform.
Gang members massacred at least 47 people and injured about 22 others after gunning down people inside a church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Dozens more were kidnapped, many of them children, the United Nations and Amnesty International reported. The incident is thought to be one of the largest mass abductions in the nation in recent years.
Following a heated city council meeting in Dearborn, Michigan, last week, a local pastor and other religious freedom advocates are accusing the Muslim-majority city council of favoring Islamic Sharia law over pursuing justice for Christian protestors who were attacked during a recent local event.
A social media-fueled trend continues to encourage young adults to “disown” or permanently sever ties with their own parents.
A group of religious freedom advocates is pressing for the release of the former mayor of a majority Christian town in Syria whom they say has been held for more than a year without charges.
Secularism is making headway in the U.S., according to Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), while data from Pew Research Center paint a mixed picture.
Between 2024 and 2025, the number of Americans going to a Christian church at least twice a year grew by 8 million. Recent research from the American Bible Society called the trend encouraging — even as a closer look revealed deeper concerns and some generational differences.
Germany ranks as the most dangerous country in Europe for Christians through the first half of this year, with France and Italy trailing close behind, according to an analysis of monthly crime tracking by a Christian organization on the continent.
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