Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement to exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, a long-awaited breakthrough that U.S. President Donald Trump said could mark the first step toward ending the two-year war in Gaza.
Suspected Fulani criminals in western Nigeria kidnapped and killed a Christian pastor despite receiving 5 million naira ($3,125 USD) in ransom, sources said.
A pastor acquitted of a false blasphemy charge after 13 years of languishing in prison tragically died two days after his release, a rights group said.
Leaders of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) met Monday (Oct. 6) with His Eminence Ignatius Aphrem II, Syriac-Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, in Damascus to discuss the challenges facing Syria’s Christian communities following the country’s first parliamentary elections since the fall of the Assad regime.
Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE has apologized for a program that described the growth of evangelical churches as “worrying” and portrayed them as “dangerous,” promising to handle religious issues with “the utmost care” following a wave of complaints from evangelical organizations and viewers.
Nigeria’s security agents on Saturday prevented the president of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) from entering the sanctuary during a funeral service at the church’s headquarters in Jos, Plateau State, and arrested two Christian female journalists who were covering the altercation at the event.
A Mexican lawmaker from the ruling party said that organized crime, not elected officials, controls much of the country, warning that Mexico is “far from being a holy nation.” Speaking at a Christian conference on the topic of “Kings and Priests, or Kings or Priests, or Neither Kings nor Priests,” Hugo Eric Flores Cervantes — an evangelical politician and deputy with the ruling MORENA party — told a large audience that “70% of Mexico is governed by drug cartels.”
In a heartfelt and moving post on LinkedIn, Shawn Thornton, president of the disability ministry Joni and Friends, recently shared his experience of becoming “buddies” with a young man with Down syndrome named Paul.
More than six months after police in southern India dismissed the death of a pastor as a road accident, Christians in the region say there is strong evidence the continually threatened evangelist was murdered.
As the world changes at breakneck speed, the Church is grappling with how to reach a generation formed by digital culture, moral fluidity, and deep questions about identity. Ashish Hirday, Global Facilitator of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) Youth Commission, believes the answer is found in the Word of God rather than in programs.
The Arab Baptist Theological Seminary (ABTS) in Beirut marked a historic leadership transition on Sunday (Sept. 28) as Wissam Nasrallah officially assumed the presidency, succeeding longtime leader Dr. Elie Haddad. In a passing the baton ceremony, Nasrallah outlined a vision centered on worship, Scripture, critical thinking, and servant leadership as the seminary enters a new season of ministry across the Middle East and North Africa.
Four-time GRAMMY Award-winning duo for KING + COUNTRY released their new single “World on Fire (feat. Taylor Hill)” on Friday (Oct. 3), signaling what the brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone describe as a “new season of passion and purpose.”
