A prominent American university has decided five on-campus Christian groups are in violation of the school’s non-discrimination policy and has placed the groups on “provisional status” — a move described by one conservative group as nothing short of religious bigotry.
Messianic Jews in a suburb west of Jerusalem continue to be harassed for following their faith, this time by someone anonymously placing flyers in public areas singling out members of Messianic congregations.
Despite a blizzard of PR emanating from City Hall designed to snow the public and the media concerning the liberal/progressive nature of Rahm Emanuel when it comes to civil rights, hopes are fading that his administration will be any less repressive of civil rights than his predecessor, Richard Daley.
The U.S. Air Force has suspended a class at Vandenberg Air Force Base after complaints that it violates church and state.
In more than 60 countries around the world, more than 100 million Christians face persecution simply because of their faith in Jesus Christ.
With the start of the month-long Islamic fast called Ramadan beginning next Monday, Open Doors USA is launching a 30-day campaign urging Christians in the West to pray for persecuted believers in Muslim-dominated countries.
In a further sign of the intensifying crackdown on China’s unregistered house churches, the deputy chairman of the Chinese House Church Alliance has been given a two-year labor camp sentence, ChinaAid has learned.
Until now, Texas Gov. Rick Perry had merely been mocked, opposed and otherwise persecuted for suggesting that we fall to our knees and cry out to God to restore the land. Now, a federal lawsuit has been filed to try to stop Perry’s “Day of Prayer and Fasting,” also known as The Response.
An evangelical pastor, once jailed by the regime of Fidel Castro, arrived in the United States from Cuba yesterday with his family under a special resettlement program for political refugees.
Open Doors says Eritrean military officials have rounded up another group of evangelical Christians this week.
An Iranian pastor who was handed the death sentence for apostasy is no longer on death row, his lawyer said Sunday.
Enraged Muslims burned down several Christian-owned homes, surrounded a church and threatened to kill a priest last week in two unrelated incidents in Upper Egypt.
Barack Obama is bringing home 33,000 troops from Afghanistan within the next 15 months.
A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a Pellissippi State Community College student in Tennessee who was told he would have to pay a fee to share his Christian faith.
The oppression of religion around the world and U.S. policy to address challenges to this basic human right was the focus of a hearing held today by Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), chairman of the House congressional panel that oversees international human rights.
Pakistan (MNN) ― Armed Muslims disrupted the church service of Numseoul Presbyterian Church outside Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday, May 29. The Muslims cursed the congregation, smashed a glass altar, desecrated Bibles and a cross, and man-handled those who tried to stop them.
Most Bible-believing Christians would probably run from a church after one or two of its members were murdered, much less after witnessing 200 killed in the first six months of the year.
Violent persecution around the globe must not be ignored as it is now.
Around the world, and especially in Africa and Asia, Christian populations are suffering severe discrimination and brutal attacks. Thousands are being killed. Systematic campaigns are being waged against Christians simply because of their faith, and it is not too dramatic to suggest that these are forms of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
The Chinese government enacted new regulations this week in a further attempt to control its growing Christian population.
Ongoing turmoil in the embattled nation of Syria means its Christians face uncertain futures.
