“Arise, shine, Bethlehem, for the light of peace has dawned anew.” With these words, Bethlehem celebrated the traditional lighting of its Christmas tree on a packed Manger Square on Dec. 6, 2025, following a two-year hiatus.
“Every day is a little bit different.” That’s how Jim Vale explained what life is like for him and his wife, Ashley. Both are family medicine physicians who serve with the International Mission Board in Southeast Asia.
A Christian mother of five children in Pakistan was raped at gunpoint by a Muslim who had been harassing and pressuring her to convert to Islam and marry him, her husband said.
Makeshift barricades in front of Mercy Care Hospital in Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 26, 2021 Associated Press World Health Organization head Tedros Ghebreyesus on Tue...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning accused both countries of violating the truce hours after he said they had agreed to stop hostilities. He also suggested that breaking the ceasefire could hav...
Police have taken no action in the forcible conversion/marriage of a Christian girl kidnapped in Pakistan on June 11, a rights advocate said.
A man opened fire Sunday evening at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Prophet Elias in the Syrian capital. Syrian authorities blamed Islamic State terrorists for the bombing, but the group had not offi...
Following a preliminary investigation, the Syrian government says the Islamic State is responsible for a suicide bombing at a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus that killed at least 22 people and
Days after a massacre of more than 100 people in a predominantly Christian village in Benue state, Nigeria, the country s president called for action against the assailants even as a local
At least two attacks on Christians are being reported every day in India this year, according to new figures released by a Christian advocacy group
This issue of A Public Witness unpacks President Donald Trump’s invoking of God during his speech announcing the U.S. had dropped massive bombs on Iran, thus joining Israel recent war against Iran.
