
As the Islamic Republic of Iran’s (IRI) crackdown on Christians continues, the theocratic regime plans to turn an illegally confiscated Assyrian church into an “Islamic prayer center.”
by Adelle Nazarian5 Jan 2016, 7:50 AM PST0

“Jesus Welcomes You To Hawkins,” reads a church’s sign in the city of Hawkins, Texas. But some atheists don’t appreciate the welcome, so the city is suing the church in order to fend off a lawsuit from the atheists.
by Ken Klukowski26 Dec 2015, 9:43 AM PST0

Claremont United Methodist Church abandoned the gun control nativity scene they had planned for this year; a scene which was supposed to depict “eight guns pointing at baby Jesus’ manger.”
by AWR Hawkins25 Dec 2015, 9:54 AM PST0

Catholics in the Las Vegas area say they’ve endured aggressive protesters bolting into church during mass.
by Alex Swoyer11 Dec 2015, 8:53 AM PST0

The church of Saint George in Baghdad, which was closed down in 2007 after being firebombed by Islamic militants, was finally reopened Monday, but local clergy worry that there are no longer any Assyrian Christians left to worship there.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.4 Nov 2015, 6:54 PM PST0

Many of the attacks on churches have been religiously or racially motivated, the Center notes, such as a string of arson attacks at six predominantly black churches in the Saint Louis area this month, although federal law enforcement agencies have ruled these fires to be unrelated and police are as yet unwilling to say whether the attacks are racially driven. Acts of arson are also significantly more common in churches than in other structures, and in recent years only 5-10% of residential and non-residential fires were intentionally set, as compared to the 51% of church fires that were deemed acts of arson.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.26 Oct 2015, 9:38 AM PST0

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say another church property has been set on fire in the St. Louis area, the seventh such blaze in two weeks.
by Breitbart News22 Oct 2015, 2:22 PM PST0

Holy Cross Church in Santa Cruz is taking precautions after noticing a Navy veteran filed a $5 million suit against the U.S. government, the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior, and San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park after a heavy cone from a bunya pine tree fell, striking him on the head.
by William Bigelow15 Oct 2015, 12:09 PM PST0

After Sunday services, some 350 church goers made their way three blocks from the church building to the front steps of police headquarters on Columbia Avenue, where they were met by the chief of police and several on duty officers, who warmly received them. “I’ve met with dozens of police officers and federal agents in the last two months and heard from them how they have felt a increasing sense of danger and a loss of support from the community,” the church pastor tells Breitbart News.
by Michael Patrick Leahy14 Sep 2015, 5:48 AM PST0

WAKE COUNTY (WTVD) — A Wake County man is facing sexual assault charges involving a 6-year-old girl at a church Tuesday.
by Breitbart News3 Sep 2015, 12:18 PM PST0

Father Joseph Zhang Yinlin will be ordained Bishop of Anyang, Henan Province, on August 4, becoming the first Chinese bishop ordained publicly in three years and the first after the Vatican and China reopened dialogue in June 2014.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.31 Jul 2015, 5:46 AM PST0

“I hear people say we’ve got racial problems. We don’t have a skin problem in this country, we have a sin problem in this country,” said Huckabee, who appealed to the mostly African American audience. As a GOP presidential candidate, Huckabee is working to broaden his appeal to black voters.
by Alex Swoyer20 Jul 2015, 8:29 AM PST0

On Friday, a Massachusetts judge denied a request from a non-profit group—which had been holding a continuous 24/7 vigil for almost 11 years at a church south of Boston—to suspend his order that they leave the property.
by William Bigelow31 May 2015, 7:29 PM PST0

On Tuesday, Pew Research released a new study finding a radical increase in the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans. That increase correlated strongly with the decrease in the number of Catholics, mainline Protestants, and evangelical Protestants over the past seven years.
by Ben Shapiro13 May 2015, 12:07 PM PST0

Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren explains that the faith community in the U.S. has been more eager to collaborate with the U.S. government than the government has been to work with it.
by Caroline May6 May 2015, 10:18 AM PST0

French authorities arrested a 24-year-old Algerian, allegedly planning an “imminent attack” on the nation’s churches. The man, believed to be an aspiring ISIS jihadist “known to security services as having expressed a wish to travel to Syria,” was arrested after shooting himself.
by John Hayward22 Apr 2015, 7:57 AM PST0

Shocking video surfaced this week of a ‘resurrection’ ceremony where a Texas pastor and self-proclaimed prophet allegedly tried to breathe life back into a dead toddler’s body. Now, authorities are investigating this macabre case that has all the earmarks of
by Merrill Hope16 Apr 2015, 5:00 AM PST0

As Assyrian Christians were celebrating Easter Sunday, militants from the Islamic State blew up the 80-year-old church of the Virgin Mary in Tal Nasri village in the western countryside of Hasaka province, in northeastern Syria.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.6 Apr 2015, 9:16 AM PST0

Christians in the Egyptian village of Al Our are looking to build a new church in honor of the Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS in Libya, a mass-murder outrage captured in a viral video circulated by the Islamic State. 13 of the 21 Christians slaughtered in the video hailed from Al Our; they had gone to Libya in search of employment. A church in their hometown would seem like a fine way to remember them.
by John Hayward1 Apr 2015, 2:39 PM PST0

Too many so-called religious people are filled with worldliness, said Pope Francis, which blinds them to the situation of the people around them, especially those who suffer. “If your heart is worldly you cannot understand the needs and hardships of others,” he said.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.6 Mar 2015, 4:27 AM PST0

On Friday night, vandals spray-painted Satanist graffiti as well as swastikas on a church in Orangevale, roughly 25 miles northeast of Sacramento, California. The graffiti on the Calvary Chapel included “I love Satan” on the main sign of the church as well as “6-6-6,” swastikas, racial slurs and profanity painted on the rest of the building.
by William Bigelow25 Jan 2015, 9:03 AM PST0

Pope Francis baptized 33 children on Sunday morning, the day that Christians celebrate the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. In his homily, the Pope told parents to teach their children that “you cannot be a Christian outside the
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.11 Jan 2015, 7:30 AM PST0

According to Joshua DuBois, a longtime spiritual adviser to Obama who led the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships during the president’s first term, the reason President Obama does not regularly attend church is that he worries that his presence detracts from other worshipers’ experience.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.26 Dec 2014, 9:56 AM PST0

President Obama and his family skipped church on Christmas, choosing instead to spend the afternoon at the beach at the Bellows Air Force Station in Hawaii.
by Charlie Spiering26 Dec 2014, 6:09 AM PST0

Egyptian authorities have raised their terror alert status to the highest level and are reportedly prepared for potential attacks on Christmas and New Year’s Eve from radial Islamic groups in the nation’s places of worship.
by Adelle Nazarian25 Dec 2014, 5:38 AM PST0