Two thousand Christians gathered in India in November to urge the government to protect religious freedoms as violence and legalized discrimination increase in the world’s most populous country.
Quebec has introduced a bill that would restrict prayer and religious expression in public spaces — while also broadening limits on religious symbols in schools and daycares.
An evangelical Christian missionary from the U.S. was kidnapped late Oct. 21 in Niamey, Niger, less than 100 yards from the presidential palace, CBS News reported.
Israeli families are relieved Hamas released 20 living hostages but grieve that bodies of remaining hostages are still held or missing, the leader of a top care group serving traumatized families told Baptist Press.
A 63-year-old Russian Pentecostal pastor received a four-year sentence for preaching against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an Oslo-based news service focused on human rights and religious freedom reported.
In the case of Tavriski Christian Institute, warfare devastated the school’s campus in Kherson but could not destroy its mission to prepare the next generation of the nation’s Christian leaders.