Africa
Faith based health providers across Africa are scrambling to restructure their operations after sweeping U.S. foreign aid cuts gutted the funding that kept mission hospitals running for decades.
Middle East
A drone attack struck the Blessed Michael McGivney apartment complex in Ankawa, a Christian suburb of Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region, on the evening of March 4, 2026. The blast completely destroyed the chapel inside the complex and damaged a nearby convent belonging to the Chaldean...
UK
Mohammed El Deihi, 34, of no known address, has been sentenced to one year and ten months in prison after admitting to making threats to kill inside St Mary's Church in Hardwick, Cambridgeshire.
UK
A groundbreaking national survey is now underway to understand why thousands of adults are choosing to enter the Catholic Church across England, Scotland, and Wales this Easter.
US
United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has declared that prayer plays a central role in "every decision" the Trump administration makes regarding the ongoing conflict with Iran.
US
A prominent Shiite mosque in Dearborn, Michigan held a memorial service on Sunday, March 1, 2026, honoring the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed during Operation Epic Fury, a joint U.S. and Israeli military strike on Iran.
Persecution
As US and Israeli airstrikes rain down on Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and decimating military targets, a forgotten community is caught in the crossfire: Iran's Christian minority, already ranked the 10th most persecuted in the world by the Open Doors 2026 World...
Europe
Rev. Dr. Richard Howell, Principal of the Caleb Institute in Delhi and former general secretary of the Asia Evangelical Alliance, has issued a stark warning: the spiritual collapse of the Western Church is not a local crisis. It is a global one.
US
In a landmark 6 to 3 decision handed down on March 2, 2026, the United States Supreme Court ruled that California cannot enforce policies requiring schools to conceal children's gender transitions from their parents. The ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta restores a statewide class action...
Asia
Grace Jin Drexel, the daughter of imprisoned Chinese pastor Ezra Jin, addressed the sixth annual International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C. on February 2, 2026, delivering an emotional testimony about her father's detention and the persecution of underground Christians in...
Africa
More than 400 conservative Anglican bishops, clergy, and lay leaders gathered in Abuja, Nigeria this week for the G26 conference, a four day summit organized by the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) that could formalize a historic split in one of the world's largest Christian...
Middle East
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has called on the State Department to place Turkey on a Special Watch List for severe violations of religious freedom, citing the mass expulsion of foreign born Protestant Christians from the country.