USA
Seoul, South Korea — The World Evangelical Alliance concluded its General Assembly on Thursday, October 30, 2025, installing Reverend Botrus Mansour as its new Secretary General and issuing the Seoul Declaration, a 15-page document addressing biblical sexuality, marriage, abortion, and religious freedom. Mansour, an Arab-Israeli from Nazareth, is the
Orthodox News
United States — Young, single men are flocking to the Orthodox church after discovering the "masculine" Christian religion through online influencers. Some converts said they felt disillusioned with the "feminization" of the Protestant church and were attracted to the "authenticity" of Orthodoxy, which they claim
Catholic News
Los Angeles, California — Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins recently opened up about a moment of clarity nearly 50 years ago that led him to sobriety and reshaped his understanding of faith, an experience he now attributes to God. In an interview with The New York Times ahead of the
Protestant News
Blanchester, Ohio — Silas Shelton, a Southern Baptist pastor at Blanchester Community Ministries in Blanchester, Ohio, has been indicted on 11 charges including rape, sexual battery, unlawful sexual conduct with a minor, gross sexual imposition, and two counts of arson. Shelton, 48, was arrested in October on multiple felony charges. The
Protestant News
Huntsville, Alabama — Adrian Davis, a former pastor of a now-defunct campus of a megachurch in Alabama, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of diverting over $400,000 from church funds. Prosecutors allege the money was spent on luxury purchases, vehicles, personal debt and mortgage payments. Davis was the
USA
Christian Relief Organizations Deploy Massive Aid Operation as Hurricane Melissa Devastates Jamaica THE NEWS Kingston, Jamaica — Multiple Christian charity organizations are gearing up to deploy resources to Jamaica as the Caribbean island country faces the wrath of Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm that made landfall on Tuesday with winds
UK
Pomona, California — Independent filmmaker Dan Brown Jr. was arrested, handcuffed, and had his cameras confiscated by police on October 17, 2025, while filming a documentary outside a Planned Parenthood facility in Pomona, California. Brown, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker who has worked on documentaries including "Walking While Black"
Europe
Brussels — Members of the European Parliament have submitted a parliamentary question (E-003845/2025) demanding answers from EU leadership about the ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria, asking what measures are being taken to strengthen protection of vulnerable Christian communities and promote religious freedom in the country. The parliamentary question
Catholic News
Vatican City — The Vatican Apostolic Library has provided a dedicated prayer room equipped with a Muslim prayer carpet for visiting Islamic scholars, according to Father Giacomo Cardinali, Vice-Prefect of the library, who confirmed the arrangement in an October 8, 2025 interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica. "Of course,
Battle Lines
For many communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt and parts of the South, mass slaughter and repeated raids have become a traumatic, recurring reality. Two things feed into that cycle: (1) persistent violence by armed groups including Islamist militants and heavily armed pastoralist militias widely believed to be Fulani-linked,
Battle Lines
This is the first installment of a series of 5 articles titled The War on Christian Men: A systematic examination of how modern culture attacks masculinity. It’s getting harder and harder to deny it: there is a widespread crisis of masculinity, and most significantly, of Christian masculinity. The stats
Africa
Seoul, South Korea — Evangelicalism is growing around the world but nowhere more so than in Africa where the increase has been "explosive," researcher Jason Mandryk told the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) at its World General Assembly in Seoul this week. Mandryk, a Christian researcher with Operation World, reported