Settlement: Church to use former Wal-Mart

January 8, 2009

CARLINVILLE, Ill. — Carlinville Southern Baptist Church and the city of Carlinville, Ill., have reached a settlement in the church’s nearly year-long fight to use

New Congress reflects overall religious landscape

January 8, 2009

The religious makeup of the incoming 111th Congress roughly matches the overall American religious landscape, with overrepresentation among Jews and Mormons, according to a new

Judge hands conservative Episcopalians legal victory

January 8, 2009

FAIRFAX, Va. — A Virginia judge ruled Dec. 19 that three parcels of land belong to parishes that have broken away from the Episcopal Church,

U.S. panel says Iraq violates religious liberty

January 8, 2009

A bipartisan U.S. panel has recommended Iraq be returned to a list of the world’s worst violators of religious liberty for the first time since

Orissa Christians in need of Southern Baptist aid

January 8, 2009

BHUBANESWAR, India — About 2,100 Christian families driven from their homes in India’s Orissa state are receiving badly needed relief supplies from Southern Baptists’ world

Buddhist clerics hold Christians captive

January 8, 2009

Buddhist clerics and local council officials are holding 13 newly converted Christians captive in a pagoda (temple) in a southeastern mountainous district of Bangladesh in

Muslims attack, injure Bangladeshi Christians

January 1, 2009

CHAKARIA, Bangladesh — The harassment that Bangladeshi converts from Islam face from Muslim neighbors in Chakaria took a serious turn in November when an attack