Open Doors releases 2014 World Watch List

January 8, 2014

Open Doors released its annual list of the worst countries for Christian persecution globally Jan. 8. At the top of the list, for the 12th

New hospital vessel to be built for Mercy Ships

January 2, 2014

BEIJING, China — Mercy Ships has announced that it has reached an agreement with shipbuilding firms to purpose-build a new hospital ship for Mercy Ships.

England recognizes Church of Scientology marriages

January 2, 2014

LONDON, England — Britain’s highest court ruled Dec. 11, 2013, that Scientology is a religion, giving a 25-year-old woman and her fiancé the legal rights

Croatians initiate referendum to preserve marriage

January 2, 2014

ZAGERB, Croatia — In the nation’s first-ever, citizen-initiated referendum, Croatians asked their government to preserve marriage as the union of a man and a woman,

Worship services banned by guerrilla army in Colombia

January 2, 2014

PUTUMAYO, Colombia — Christians in southern Colombia are living in constant danger from a guerrilla army that has banned worship services in rural areas under

Christians attacked after schools merge in Nigeria

January 2, 2014

JOS, Nigeria — Educational reforms in Nigeria’s Osun state have created religious tensions in schools, resulting in Islamist youth beating a Christian principal unconscious in

Church members’ homes raided in Turkmenistan

January 2, 2014

DASHOGUZ, Turkmenistan — Police and MSS secret police in Dashoguz, Turkmenistan, have raided members of the Pentecostal church Light of the East. Two homes of