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A radical Islamist imam in the Malmö no-go zone of Rosengård has claimed that Muslims carrying Swedish flags are “heretics” as the flag contains a Christian cross.

Pope Francis cracked down on conservative Catholics on Friday, repealing inclusive measures by his predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI and imposing restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass.

First Nations Christians spoke of being left “heartbroken” after their historic Anglican church burned to the ground amid the ongoing wave of arson attacks and statue-smashing sweeping Canada.

A late-night fire assailed the Lagos, Nigeria, Synagogue Church of All Nations on Monday shortly after a candlelight vigil for its late founder T.B. Joshua, one of Africa’s most celebrated, and controversial, clergymen.

Ten churches in Alberta were vandalised in a single day as Canada continues to see churches, primarily Roman Catholic, burned to the ground in several provinces over the past month.

The Church of England’s first-ever transwoman priest(ess) has declared that “God is non-binary” and questioned whether He is “just genuinely like a guy?”

The conference of the Methodist Church of Great Britain has overwhelmingly backed same-sex marriages taking place in their churches, claiming in the new standing order “that marriage can be between any two people”.

Emmy-winning Hollywood star Billy Porter accused black Christians of “weaponizing the Bible” against the LGBTQ community in an incendiary interview with journalist April Ryan.

ROME — Pope Francis warned Wednesday against Christians who are overly attached to tradition and “disturb communities” through their inflexibility.

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo lamented Sunday the fate of the people of Myanmar “tossed in the stormy seas of man-made disaster” following the February 1 military coup d’état.

A high school graduated headed to Harvard University is asking for her $40,000 college scholarship to be donated to another student attending a community college that the Harvard-bound student’s mother attended in her late 30’s. The student credited her Christian faith and her mother for the decision to help classmates achieve their education goals.

American Idol Season 7 runner-up David Archuleta announced on Instagram Saturday that he is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, urging Christians and Mormons to accept such sexual identities as compatible with their faiths.

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities have ordered the few legal churches in the country to study and celebrate the Communist Party ahead of the 100th anniversary of its founding on July 1, Hong Kong’s Apple Daily reported Thursday.

(AP) — Bosnian authorities on Saturday demolished a Serbian Orthodox church that was illegally built on land owned by a Bosniak woman, a move that comes after a 20-year legal battle that saw the case reach the European Court of Human Rights.

The Right Reverend Joanna Penberthy, Bishop of St Davids, has deleted a “personal” Twitter account which she used to abuse Conservatives and Brexit supporters.

Pope Francis has urged Christians to pray during the month of June for young men and women preparing for marriage, offering an alternative, Christian message to LGBT Pride events.

The Atheists in Kenya society (AIK) announced Saturday that the secretary of the organization, Mr. Seth Mahiga, resigned from his post because “he has found Jesus Christ and is no longer interested in promoting atheism in Kenya.”

The Union of Pentecostal Churches of Lithuania has written an open letter condemning Finland’s prosecution of Christians who hold biblical beliefs concerning marriage and sexuality.

A group of prominent scholars and human rights advocates have written an open letter to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to protest state prosecutions of Christians in Finland over biblical beliefs regarding marriage.

Thousands of Christians in Nigeria have been kidnapped and hundreds killed in the first four months of 2021, the Tablet reported Wednesday.

CARACAS — The socialist regime of Venezuela has been at odds with the national Catholic Church since its inception over 20 years ago, a fact it has tried to obscure from the nation’s devout by constantly usurping religious authority and “redefining” Christianity to fit its authoritarian goals.

ROME — When we pray, we do not give God orders for Him to serve our projects, Pope Francis told pilgrims to the Vatican on Wednesday.

Christian rocker John Cooper, lead singer of the band Skillet, spoke about how he believes Christians should handle controversial social justice issues, including critical race theory, explaining how he realized there was “something off” with the left’s insistence to embrace such hot button topics and contending that their lofty ideas, such as abolishing prisons and police, are fundamentally flawed, as they ignore human nature.

A survey from Arizona Christian University found Millennials are rejecting faith in God and looking to government to provide a better life.

Swedish novelist Jonas Gardell has claimed that his homosexuality is a “gift from God” in response to remarks from a pastor critical of same-sex marriage and gender identity ideology.

A 900-year-old church in East Yorkshire will have damaged carvings replaced with figures celebrating feminist and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) figures. The woke restoration project of St Mary’s Church in Beverley is being spearheaded by Vicar Reverend Rebecca

The Church of Sweden has claimed that it is a “trans” church in a letter addressed to transgender people and signed by nearly 1,000 clergy members and others affiliated with the church.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has added further restrictions on Christian content on the social media platform WeChat, the Barnabas Fund reported Monday.

“You can be anything in Britain except a Christian,” Democratic Unionist Party politician Ian Paisley Jr told Faisal Islam of the BBC.

LGBT activists in the UK are calling for a ban on “hate prayer” that would suggest active homosexuals need to convert.

Praying is hard work and not a “walk in the park,” Pope Francis told pilgrims gathered in the Vatican for his general audience Wednesday.

Progressive Catholics in Germany have announced their intent to offer blessings to same-sex couples at dozens of churches around the country this week in defiance of a recent Vatican ban on the practice.

A Christian chaplain at Trent College was fired and reported to the British government’s anti-terrorism programme for delivering a sermon in which he told students that it is acceptable to question and disagree with far-left LGBT ideology being taught at the school.

The Anglican Church will embark upon a review of thousands of historical monuments which reference the British Empire or the slave trade, as the Church continues with its Black Lives Matter-inspired agenda.

Police in Kerala, India, took legal action on Thursday against 480 Church of South India (CSI) priests for their role in organizing a retreat that has resulted in over 100 confirmed Chinese coronavirus cases, local media revealed.

Police in London arrested a Christian street preacher for allegedly causing “alarm and distress” to pedestrians for citing allegedly “homophobic” verses from Genesis. On Friday, Pastor John Sherwood was preaching alongside Pastor Peter Simpson of the Penn Free Methodist Church outside the Uxbridge