Christians killed in Christmas bloodshed in Nigeria

January 17, 2013

JOS, Nigeria — Christmas Eve attacks by suspected Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria’s Borno state took the lives of six people at a Baptist church,

Buying fair trade products can help stop forced labor, free people from bondage

January 10, 2013

A young man came to the United States to look for work because he needed to support his aging parents,” wrote Polaris Project, an organization that

Sudan arrests Coptic priests for baptizing convert

January 10, 2013

JUBA, South Sudan — Sudanese authorities have arrested two priests of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Sudan and accused them of baptizing a convert from

Masked gunmen kill Christian man in Somalia

January 10, 2013

BELEDWEYNE, Somalia — Gunmen in central Somalia killed an underground Christian on Dec. 8 who had been receiving death threats for leaving Islam, area sources

Christians most populous, Pew research affirms

January 10, 2013

Christians are the world’s largest religious group and are nearly evenly dispersed globally, according to a new Pew study on the size, geographic distribution and

2012 Year in Review

January 3, 2013

It may not have felt like it, because a lot of people burned the candle at both ends in 2012, but in a variety of

Sudan bombing kills Christians, destroys church

December 20, 2012

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The Sudanese military in mid-November bombed more non-Arab people in largely Christians areas of the Nuba Mountains — killing three Christians, destroying