Geneva - Credible reports of killings, abductions, sexual violence, forced conversion, forced marriage, abductions and acts tantamount to enforced disappearances targeting Christian and other religious minority communities in Nigeria, particularly women and girls, are alarming, UN experts say.
The U.S. Defense Department will no longer allow military service members to claim around 180 different religious traditions in their personnel records, leaving only 31 to choose from, and 22 of them are Christian denominations.
The Kenya Evangelical Lutheran Church has installed its first woman bishop, Catherine Ngina Musau, at a ceremony attended by thousands of people
Nigeria is facing a terrifying crisis of religious violence and according to recent estimates, targeted violence has claimed the lives of nearly 53,000 Nigerian civilians since 2009, says the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
The first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV asserts that artificial intelligence is not inherently immoral, but that its adoption should be slowed to enable the development of moral guardrails and it gleaned strong approval from ecumenical groups.
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Pentecost with a call to the Holy Spirit to save humanity from "the evil of war" and urged the faithful to see themselves as active bearers of the Gospel rather than as passive guardians of it.
World Council of Churches general secretary Rev. Jerry Pillay has expressed deep concern over the suffering caused by the escalating Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he would raise concerns about jailed Catholic media tycoon and Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai and detained Chinese pastor Jin Mingri during his talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Religious freedom in India is on a "downward trajectory," says a U.S. commission that has heard renewed warnings about discrimination, arbitrary detention and violence directed against Christians and other religious minorities.
