Armed assailants abducted a priest and others while killing the brother of another priest during a Monday attack on a community in Nigeria’s troubled Kaduna state, according to a leading…
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Protest erupts as bill protecting underage girls from forced marriage passes in Pakistan province
In a landmark move to protect children, especially girls, from forced child marriages, a provincial assembly in Pakistan on Friday passed the Child Marriage Prohibition Bill. Read More The Christian…
European court rules against Poland after woman traveled abroad for 2nd trimester abortion
A woman who was 15 weeks pregnant when Poland’s top court ruled against abortion for fetal defects has won her case at the European Court of Human Rights, which found…
ISIS-linked jihadis slit throats of breastfeeding mothers during a hospital attack: official
A rebel group’s attack on a Catholic hospital’s maternity ward in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed around 20 people, including breastfeeding mothers and their babies. Authorities have blamed…
Netanyahu affirms: Opposition to Palestinian state west of Jordan River remains unchanged
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed his firm opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state amid internal criticism caused by reports that the American draft for a United Nations…
Christians in Pakistan demand equality in new election law: ‘Election not selection’
Christians in Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, are protesting a new local government election law that denies religious minorities the right to directly elect their own representatives and undermines democratic…
Evangelicals offer praise for Armenia PM after he recites Bible at prayer breakfast amid church tensions
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, under criticism from rights groups over his government’s treatment of senior clergy from Armenia’s national church, received strong praise from American and British Evangelical leaders after…
Christian groups urge Scottish gov’t to reject ‘extreme’ abortion up to birth proposals
Christian and pro-life groups are calling on the Scottish government to reject “extreme” proposals to allow abortion up to birth. Read More The Christian Post | RSS
Armenia’s prayer breakfast draws critics amid tensions between prime minister, church leaders
More than 300 faith, business and political leaders have convened for a national prayer breakfast in the world’s oldest Christian nation amid ongoing tensions between the Armenian Apostolic Church and…
Trump must pressure Syria to protect Christians from ‘ethno-religious cleansing,’ advocate warns
The burial of a 19-year-old who died in the June bombing at the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria, has come to symbolize the “ethno-religious cleansing” of Syria’s Christian indigenous…