Patrick Fung, the global ambassador of OMF International reminded delegates at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne 4) in Incheon, Korea, that God used and still uses suffering and persecution to reach the unreached.
A state civil servant’s angry halt to her Christian neighbor’s home worship on Sunday (Sept. 22) near Jakarta, Indonesia led to an uproar that resulted in her apologizing, according to local media.
Religious leaders and legal experts have faulted a bill before Kenya’s Senate that proposes to regulate religious organisations. The Religious Organisations Bill, 2024, drafted by Tana River Senator, Danson Mungatana aims to regulate and oversee the management of religious organisations.
Muslims in eastern Uganda beat an evangelist on Friday (Sept. 20), leaving him hospitalized with head injuries and a broken hand, sources said.
The concern that church leaders have shown for Christians suffering for their faith since the first Lausanne Congress in 1974 has grown so much that most of a day and night was devoted to persecution at the fourth Congress in South Korea on Wednesday (Sept. 25).
A 16-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan was forced to convert to Islam and marry a Muslim after he and two accomplices kidnapped her this month, her parents said.
U.K. police last week paid 10,000 British Pounds ($13,321 USD) in damages and costs to a Christian preacher arrested, strip-searched and jailed for denouncing Islam in 2022 at a renowned public speech site in London.
A week after police in Pakistan allegedly killed a Muslim accused of blasphemy, Muslims celebrated the murder of another blasphemy suspect by bestowing garlands on police suspected of killing him, sources said.
Fulani herdsmen in central Nigeria killed two Christians on Thursday and three others at church services the prior Sunday, when they also kidnapped a pastor and 30 congregation members, sources said.
A Christian mother of four children on Wednesday (Sept. 18) received the death sentence after a judge convicted her under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, her attorney said.
Irregular and illegal migration dominates social and political conversations today in many nations. But 99% of forcibly displaced people are stuck in refugee camps in or near their home nation. With the help of the global Church we can help displaced people out of refugee limbo, sharing the love of Christ and offering them a hope and future.
Sharing that only a few days ago, one of his neighbor’s relatives was killed by shrapnel from a Hezbollah rocket fired into Northern Israel, Shehade lamented the cycles of violence, death and destruction in the Holy Land and the wider region. But he expressed his disagreement with those Christians who tend to speak out in favor of one side or the other without acknowledging that politics offers no real solution to the ongoing conflict. He strongly believes that Jesus’ call for the Church was and
