In a bid to disrupt the historic pan-Orthodox Council that began in Crete Sunday, the Russian Orthodox Church noisily announced its withdrawal from the meeting, taking with it the Antiochian, Bulgarian and Georgian Churches—who together represent more than half of the world’s Orthodox Christians.
The Democratic Party and liberal media are targeting U.S. gays with a “brainwashing campaign,” deliberately removing the issue of radical Islam from the conversation, Michael Lucas, a gay pornographic film actor and director, charged in a radio interview.
The New York Times’ sloppiness when reporting on Christianity is proverbial, but perhaps none of its prior errors equals its claim this week that the apostle Saint Paul commanded Christians to kill the homosexuals among them.
The notorious left-wing National Catholic Reporter has called Breitbart News the Pravda of the Conservative movement, bemoaning Breitbart’s unmasking of St Petersburg Bishop Robert Lynch who recently sought to blame Christians’ moral opposition to homosexual sex for the Orlando jihadi massacre.
The Church of England has warned that hundreds of migrants are exploiting a loophole where they convert to Christianity in a bid to avoid being deported to Iran. In Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral alone more than 200 Iranians have recently converted from
JAFFA, Israel – A Christian leader in Egypt has accused the government led by Abdel Fattah al Sissi of hiding the real number of Christians in the country out of fear that the community will demand some of the senior posts in government.
The Washington National Cathedral has announced it will change a few 63-year-old stained glass windows that depict Confederate flags to help jump-start a conversation about the wrongs of the racist “white church” in America.
The cream of Polish society including the Prime Minister turned out for a Catholic thanksgiving service this morning which warned against the de-Christianisation of Europe. Beata Szydło, Prime Minister since her right-wing, anti-mass migration Law and Justice party swept to
JAFFA, Israel – The Egyptian prosecution has ordered the release of five suspects in last week’s highly publicized attack on a Christian woman in the Nile Delta region.
The Algemeiner reports: JNS.org – Twenty-six African-American Christian leaders are participating in a May 23-29 educational trip to Israel sponsored by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship).
Speaking on ABC’s The View Wednesday, Whoopi Goldberg voiced her support of divorce as a good and important option for many Christians, since it is found “nowhere in the Bible.”
JERUSALEM (AP) — Christian officials have launched historic restoration work at the Tomb of Jesus inside the Church of Holy Sepulcher, site where tradition holds Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected.
In his weekly General Audience Wednesday, Pope Francis had hard words for those who go through life “pretending not to see” the poor, declaring that those who disregard the poor show disdain for God at the same time.
Phil Robertson, star of the upcoming documentary Torchbearer, joined Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Thursday to weigh in on the presidential election and discuss why he will be voting for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump in November.
After Monday’s big victory for the Little Sisters of the Poor against Obamacare, Pope Francis has made a robust case for religious freedom, arguing that it is absolutely essential for a modern secular state.
In his jubilee audience over the weekend, Pope Francis said that Christians should be careful not to confuse feeling sorry for animals with love for one’s neighbor.
In an exceptionally ambitious program inspired by movies such as The Matrix, Chinese technology giant Huawei is pursuing the human dream of immortality through a greater interaction between the brain and state-of-the-art electronics.
A Harvard Law professor is telling his fellow liberals that the culture wars are over and the victorious Left should treat conservative Christians the way the allies treated Germany and Japan after World War II, offering no quarter or clemency.
The American Christian missionary Kenneth Bae — who spent over 700 days as a captive of the North Korean communist regime — says the Holy Spirit held his hand through an “interrogation” exercise.
Columnist and author Peter Hitchens has shared his views on ‘extremism’ in the Mail on Sunday: As an extremist, I am very worried about the planned Extremism Bill, which our Prime Minister is about to ram through Parliament. So should you
The Vatican’s Secretary of State said this week that there is no reason why a woman could not occupy his post in the future—the equivalent of Prime Minister—since “the office is not bound to the sacraments and to the priesthood.”
An inert Christian who doesn’t move forward along the path marked out by Jesus is a “spiritual mummy,” Pope Francis said Tuesday, adding that this sort of Christian doesn’t bear any fruit because he is standing still.
What we think of as Europe is pretty easy to define these days. But it wasn’t always so, and it may not be for long.
Amid growing calls from Turkey’s Islamists to ensconce Islam in the nation’s constitution, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan emphasized the importance of secularism in the Ankara government, rejecting these calls.
The Chinese Communist Party held its first conference on religious freedom this weekend, in which President Xi Jinping demanded that “unyielding Marxist atheists” impose communism onto the nation’s religious groups. The meeting follows months of growing tensions between the communists in Beijing and blossoming Christian and Muslim underground communities.
In a surprise visit Sunday to Rome’s Villa Borghese park for a celebration of Italy’s Earth Day, Pope Francis delivered an impromptu message, telling his audience to go through the world turning deserts into forests.
The Pope’s harsh words for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump last February seem not to have hurt the candidate’s popularity among Catholics, which actually increased by more than 20% since the pontiff’s unfortunate remarks.
Football is very important to the NFL draft’s top tight end Hunter Henry, but it’s second to his Christian faith.
Indonesian authorities have publicly caned an elderly Christian woman for selling alcohol. It is the first time they have punished anyone outside of Islam under Sharia Law.
China is continuing its push to promote further communist government meddling in Buddhism. An article in the state-run Global Times cites an “expert” warning that the religion’s living Buddhas could become “weapons of mass destruction” if not properly controlled by Beijing.
In the face of falling birthrates in much of the developed world, Pope Francis and Christian leader James Dobson have sounded the alarm of global under-population, calling on families to reevaluate the gift of children and larger families. In his
JAFFA, Israel – Heaven is not Muslim-only, said prominent Egyptian Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Nasser, defying a near-consensus among Islamic theologians.
The Catholic Church in Rome is offering a week-long course on casting out Satan, preparing priests and some lay people on the finer points of exorcism and demonic possession. This extremely successful course, titled “Exorcism and Prayer of Liberation,” is
The Tennessee legislature approved a bill Monday that would designate “the Holy Bible as the official state book,” becoming the first state to approve a measure of its kind.
It’s one of the oldest degrees on offer in the world, but from next September undergraduate theology students at Oxford University will no longer have to study Christianity beyond the first year of their degree. Instead they will be able
The Christian population in Iraq has been decimated in a little over a decade, dropping from 1.4 million in 2003 to just 275,000 today, according to a report released this month. The recent joint report, compiled by the Knights of
Erik Prince, managing director of the Frontier Resource Group, and a former Navy SEAL who helped found the famous Blackwater security contracting firm, appeared on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM to talk about the slaughter of Christians in the Middle East, Africa and, increasingly, in Europe.
An explosion in Lahore, Pakistan, has killed between 50-60 people, mostly women and children, and left hundreds injured as they celebrated Easter.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Christians in the Holy Land and across the world are celebrating Easter, commemorating the day followers believe Jesus was resurrected in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. The cavernous Holy Sepulcher church in Jerusalem was packed with worshippers on
In his Good Friday ceremony of the Stations of the Cross, Pope Francis pulled no punches in denouncing the global persecution of Christians, who are still “killed, burned alive, throats slit, and beheaded with barbarous blades amid cowardly silence.”
