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Asia
Uttarakhand, India — The northern Indian state of Uttarakhand passed the Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill 2025 on August 20, 2025, introducing some of India's harshest penalties for religious conversion, including up to life imprisonment. In a first-of-its-kind move, the legislation criminalizes sharing faith through digital media, including social
Orthodox News
Brazil — Evangelical Christianity continues its explosive growth across Brazil, with the faith now representing 26.9 percent of the population, or 47.4 million people, according to 2022 census data released by Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. This marks an increase from 21.6 percent in 2010, making evangelicals
Orthodox News
Gold Coast, Australia — Joel and Ellen Cave, founding pastors of Glow Church in Gold Coast, Australia, have separated after more than 24 years of marriage and stepped down from all ministry responsibilities, the church announced on October 26, 2025. In a statement from Glow Church Chairman Dave Weatherall, the board
Orthodox News
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 first Arab
USA
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 release
USA
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
USA
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 lead
Latin America
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
Europe
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" and
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 notes
Africa
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, and
Europe
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