Authorities in Turkmenistan have threatened a church pastor with prison and pressured his non-Christian relatives to urge him to stop practicing his faith, according to rights group Forum 18.
Asian Evangelicals are leading the way with fresh theological thinking as they embrace local theologizing at the grass roots of the Church to deepen our understanding of integral mission.
Is there hope for children with a disability when their disability is as the result of a curse? Yes! But it requires speaking truth: that they are made in God’s image, that they are invited into God’s kingdom just as they are, and that God has a perfect plan for their life.
The Christian hope is not misplaced or empty. As advent begins, we need to cling to a hope eternal, one that seeks the glory of God not our earthly desires. The pathway to that hope leads through suffering, but following that path will not leave us disappointed.
"I wished I had been born white, so I could be loved for who I was and treated as a person." Being a child of a migrant can be intensely lonely and confusing. This is the experience of one migrant child's journey from crisis and counter evangelism to Christ.
Officials in Indonesia said they regretted the surfacing of a video showing Muslims halting worship of a church service in March, as authorities have since provided a temporary site for the congregation’s services.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics has drawn significant backlash in Pakistan for its depiction of Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper" with a "drag queen" performance, which many Christians view as disrespectful to religious beliefs.
Pastor Thongkham Philavanh was feeding his chickens and ducks behind his house in Vanghay village, northwestern Laos, on Monday (July 22) when two men on motorcycles, faces covered, arrived.
A serious crisis is brewing in the Diocese of Lahore of the Anglican Church of Pakistan after four directors of the Lahore Diocesan Trust Association (LDTA), which oversees missionary properties worth billions of rupees in Pakistan, moved the high court in Punjab Province alleging financial corruption and fraudulent practices in the organisation.
Members of a house church in northern India can no longer meet for worship after a mob of about 150 Hindu extremists attacked them on July 14, sources said.
On July 23, the Pastoral Data Research Institute (PDRI) in South Korea released the results of its survey on Christian youth highlighting areas that churches should focus on to strengthen the faith of Christian middle and high school students. It revealed that half of Christian youth spend less than five minutes a day on their faith activities, and only 43% are comfortable expressing their faith and discussing it at school.
Islamic extremists on Dec. 16 killed a Christian father of three children who had fled his home in eastern Uganda due to death threats from Muslim relatives, sources said.
