A mob of Hindu nationalists demolished the homes of four Christian families in a village in India s Maharashtra state after they refused to abandon their faith, amid a broader surge in violence
A major symposium is taking place in London next week to assess the UK government's plans to ban so-called conversion therapy.
Fr. Jan Macha was executed in 1942, after serving just 1,257 days as a priest.
For many, abandoning the church is a statement against its positions on LGBTQ rights, euthanasia and abortion.
Next month members of the independent commission that published a searing report into clerical sexual abuse in France will meet Pope Francis at the Vatican to discuss the issue and carve out a way forward.
The wife of a California missionary detained in Niger for the past five years has spoken out publicly for the first time, expressing frustrations with the U.S. government and insisting that now is the best opportunity to secure her husband’s release.
A Nigerian Christian girl credits God for allowing her to escape after being kidnapped by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram.
A court in Nepal has granted bail to two South Korean missionary nuns more than two months after they were arrested on charges of allegedly converting Hindus by coercion and allurement.
Religious, human rights and labor activists placed thousands of pairs of “tsinelas,” Filipino for “flip-flops,” on the lawn outside the U.S. Capitol in calling on Congress to pass the Philippines Human Rights Act.
But they acknowledged that the pandemic still posed obstacles to regular church attendance.
Irme Stetter-Karp succeeds the high-profile Thomas Sternberg.
