A Christian rights group is calling on Mexican authorities to investigate the disappearance of a 79-year-old Protestant missionary who has been missing for more than six weeks after armed men
Unidentified men last week stoned a house full of worshippers for an hour in a predominantly Buddhist village in Burma (Myanmar), injuring six people, sources said.
Arrests of Christians in Iran usually spike as Christmas approaches, but this year has been especially severe, sources said.
“I can honestly say that the labor camp was the best place to understand what ‘love your enemy’ really means,” said Myroslav Marynovych, a Ukrainian Catholic who spent seven years in a Soviet gulag in the Perm region of Russia.
A former International Mission Board missionary and South Carolina Baptist Convention associate executive director was indicted Dec. 18 in Texas for alleged sexual assault of a minor 21 years ago.
Make space for wonder and surprise this Christmas, Pope Francis urged Wednesday, explaining that the first Christmas had many surprises – including that God came into the world as a tiny baby.
The first ever male, who identifies as trans and claims to be a woman, competed in the Miss Universe pageant over the weekend
Authorities in China have detained the pastor and more than 100 members of a prominent, unofficial church since Sunday (Dec. 9), according to media and advocacy agencies.
Police in Laos arrested a grandmother and three other Christians while they were worshipping last month, according to an advocacy group.
Newly-elected International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood has promised to continue an independent study of "IMB's handling of past allegations of abuse and sexual harassment and IMB's present policies and practices," according to an IMB news release today (Dec. 12).
The two religious sisters accused of embezzling from a California Catholic school face a criminal investigation, and will not be defended by their religious community.
