1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (744+ words) “The forest fires this summer were devastating,” Schrodi told Christian Daily International, reflecting on the dramatic experience endured by himself and others. “The region between the coast and Bordeaux was hit particularly hard. Hundreds of people saw their homes destroyed…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (419+ words) A 52-year-old Christian in eastern Uganda was recovering from injuries after his Muslim sons attacked him for leaving Islam, sources said. In Nakalama village, Iganga Town Council, Kibirige Abumusa returned home on Aug. 9 after an extended stay in Jinja City,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (993+ words) The doors of some small churches in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous archipelago of Tanzania, have been broken, Bibles scattered and congregations left shaken. Yet Christians in several Muslim-majority communities continue to gather for worship despite fears of further attacks and growing…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1012+ words) For decades, religious persecution in Sri Lanka was framed mainly as Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist campaigns against Christians and Muslims, but a growing body of research points to a less-examined front: Hindu nationalist or Hindutva-style movements among Sri Lankan Tamils in the…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (589+ words) "Now everything has been destroyed: food, boxes, equipment, tools, generators, vehicles," the mission wrote, adding that a large quantity of relief supplies was also lost. It described the property as an entirely civilian facility used daily to help people in…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1077+ words) For many Christians, the Holy Land is first encountered through the Bible. Yet it is not merely a collection of sacred sites or ancient stories. It is a living homeland shared by peoples carrying different histories, identities, wounds, and hopes....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (425+ words) Penzberg, in southern Germany, is the first municipality in the country to display information on the mosque and its prayer times on official signs at the entrance to the town. “Friday prayer. Winter: 12.30. Summer: 13.30. Muslim Forum”. The inscription appears alongside…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (760+ words) A delegation of evangelical leaders from across Europe stood with more than 1,500 participants from 17 countries at Ukraine's third National Prayer Breakfast on Sunday, Aug. 23, offering prayers of solidarity with a nation still at war four and a half years after…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (792+ words) Church leaders and Christians in Sudan's Nuba Mountains are facing a growing wave of killings, abductions and attacks as fighting between rival armed factions intensifies in the country's South Kordofan state. At least two church leaders have been killed in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (522+ words) Muslim extremists in Somalia on Saturday (Aug. 15) beat a mother of eight children unconscious after learning she had converted from Islam to Christianity, sources said. A former member of an underground Christian fellowship who returned to Islam, Fatuma Osman, directed…...