Christian News
Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived at the Vatican on 7 May 2026 to meet with Pope Leo, attempting to lower the temperature on a remarkable public feud between President Trump and the pontiff over the ongoing Iran War.
Family
Christian author and family advocate Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us, has launched the Greater Than Alliance, the first national coalition in any country dedicated to restoring marriage as a child centred institution after a decade of same sex marriage legalisation. The coalition...
UK
Britain has just criminalised John 3:16. Retired pastor Clive Johnston, 78, former President of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland, has been convicted at Coleraine Magistrates Court for preaching "For God so loved the world" at an open air Sunday service on the fringes of the...
Christian News
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to revoke approximately 530,000 dollars in state funding from the city of Grand Prairie over a Muslim only Eid celebration at the publicly funded Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark. The governor declared the event "religious discrimination" and gave the...
Christian News
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched a federal deprescribing initiative for antidepressants and other psychiatric medications, declaring at a Make America Healthy Again summit on 6 May 2026 that the country has been overmedicalising children and adults...
Persecution
Indonesian local authorities have halted the construction of a Christian prayer house in Kappuna village, North Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi, after Muslim residents protested with banners declaring:
Christian News
A new academic study from Dr Lydia Mannion of Mary Immaculate College, Limerick has confirmed what Christian families have always known: faith builds mental resilience in young people. The research, published in The Irish Catholic on 7 May 2026, surveyed and interviewed Irish secondary...
Persecution
A heavily pregnant Christian mother named Blessing went into premature labour on the floor of a church in Plateau State, Nigeria, while gunmen on motorbikes massacred her village outside. 52 people were killed in the attack on 6 May 2026.
Christian News
The Church of England has just published its 2025 mission funding report, and the results are substantial. £98 million distributed to dioceses, £5.9 million to mission partners, 1,500 new worshipping communities launched, and 46,000 new people reported joining the Church.
Europe
European governmental restrictions on religious freedom have reached their highest level in two decades, according to a new report from Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF). The watchdog has coined a chilling new term to describe the trend: "managerial secularism."
Christian News
A landmark new Pew Research Center study examining religious switching across 24 countries has found that the Catholic Church is losing members through religious switching in 21 of them, while Protestant Christianity is gaining ground in many of the same regions.
Persecution
Syria, where the Apostle Paul was struck blind on the Damascus road and where Christianity took root 2,000 years ago, has seen its Christian population collapse from 1.5 to 2 million pre 2011 to roughly 300,000 today. Open Doors has just elevated Syria from 18th to 6th on its World Watch...