Faith News Network

Christians face widespread persecution but God is on the move. Their numbers have grown from 29 people when the first church was planted in Nepal 60 years ago, to nearly 1 million today.

Liberty Counsel has offered pro bono legal counsel and, if needed, legal defense to the Little Rock superintendent of schools and Agape Church to defend the right of students to attend the Merry Christmas Charlie Brown play at a local church.

Wednesday 28th’s twin deadly car bombs in the Christian and Druze suburb of Jaramana in the Syrian capital Damascus appeared to target two communities which so far have not joined the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s government.

Reports of Iranian authorities arresting Christians for their faith are pouring in, indicating that the Islamic nation is running a massive campaign targeting house churches.

Four months after Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi was elected president, assaults on Christians and their places of worship have intensified. Most recently, Salafists—who follow the radical Wahhabi doctrine of Islam found in Saudi Arabia—broke into a plot of land in Cairo owned by the Coptic Church and built a makeshift mosque on the property.

A Texas woman was prohibited from early voting last month for wearing a t-shirt that read, “Vote the Bible.”