“The government has passed laws that blatantly violate religious freedom”, Swiss Christian NGO HMK says. Christian natives and foreigners have been arrested because of their faith.

In a major speech in 2016, President Xi Jinping called for the ‘sinicization of religion’. For the Chinese Communist Party, the rise of religion, especially Christianity and Islam, represents an existential threat to its political health.

We should all do what God has prepared for us, wherever he has placed us. And we should do it with a clean heart.

The fields around the Greek the refugee camp are “oversaturated”. Pau Abad, a volunteer on the ground, shares about the “hopelessness” of the hundreds of families who continue to arrive every week and will face “a very tough winter”.

Throughout the summer, a number of attacks on graveyards, church buildings and other church properties have been reported in Europe.

The place of worship in the city of Boghni was used by two Protestant communities. Around 380 members are affected.

Candles can be vulnerable, but they can also burn brightly, lighting up a room, changing darkness into light.

The US President presents a plan that includes the creation of “a coalition of businesses for the protection of religious freedom”.

David Glass, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Ulster University (Northern Ireland) analyses whether a computer can have emotions or a conscious experience.

The WEA has launched the project AD 2020 Global Year of the Bible “to highlight the Bible as the enduring foundation for unity, freedom, development and quality of life today and for the years to come”.

Boko Haram has killed an estimated 35,000 civilians. The insurgency that began in Maiduguri, Borno state increasingly struck Christian educational institutions, health facilities and worship sites.

Finding the balance between safety and compassion.

When Adam sinned he looked for something to cover himself with (yes, sin strips you bare, it shows who you really are).

How should we report about Justin Bieber, Kanye West and other cases of well-known personalities who are considering the Christian faith?

Hindu extremist threats have driven a pastor in Nepal into hiding following a leak onto social media of a restricted audience-interview he gave on his journey to Christ.

The Bible teaches that blessings and curses cannot spring from the same source.

Self-sufficiency weakens us, deprives us from support which we might have benefitted from, and widens the gap between our public persona and our private struggles.

As preachers, as pastors, or as parents, let’s not usurp the Spirit’s role and try to force things along. 

Every 40 seconds, one person commits suicide worldwide, the WHO reports. Christian psychiatrist Pablo Martínez analyses this difficult issue.

Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen shares her thoughts about the police investigation opened against her for quoting the Bible on homosexuality. She is “amazed” that “so many are praying for me and my country”.

The extremists demanded that at least one of the Christian organizers should be beaten to death, to teach them a lesson.

Believers are encouraged to choose a Canton and a minister of the government to pray for. “A special strength and hope for our nation is found in prayer”, the Swiss Evangelical Alliance says.

The temptation facing us is either to push the panic button, adding further confusion to the chaos, or to take flight and escape into denial about what’s going on in society. For Christians both of these options are simply unacceptable.

We can easily think that our hands are of little use and that even our arms could not be trusted on an important mission.

Algerian authorities have engaged in a systematic campaign to close Christian places of worship and other Christian institutions since November 2017.