Church building in Israel set ablaze
An unidentified arsonist in Israel set fire to a Jerusalem church building that has long been a focal point for anti-Christian sentiment in a Jewish ultra-Orthodox-leaning neighborhood, church officials said..
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Legal status foreseen for Christianity in Buddhist Bhutan
For the first time in Bhutan's history, the Buddhist nation's government seems ready to grant much-awaited official recognition and accompanying rights to a miniscule Christian population that has remained largely underground.
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Muslims in Bangladesh beat, deprive Christians of work
Muslim villagers last month beat a 63-year-old Christian convert and his youngest son because they refused to return to Islam, the father told Compass.
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Church leaders condemn Iraq church attack
Church leaders have expressed their sorrow over the attack on a church in Iraq that left around 58 people dead.
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Muslim tortures, accuses Christian who refused slavery
Land owner falsely charges young man with illicit sex, calls villagers to beat, burn him.
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Tortured evangelist speaks out against N. Korea
On Tuesday the evangelical activist and missionary, Robert Park spoke out about his imprisonment in North Korea in Korean TV news.
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Christian family in Bangladesh attacked, charged with crime
Muslim neighbors of a Christian family scheduled to be baptized last month beat them and filed a false charge of attempted murder against them and other Christians, the head of the family said.
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Lausanne Congress closes with fresh call to take Gospel to the whole world
The Cape Town International Convention Center was lit up with colourful banners and rousing worship as thousands of Christians gathered on Sunday for the closing ceremony of Cape Town 2010, the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelisation.
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Lausanne director: There is great hope in Africa
There is hope in Africa – a continent ravaged by conflicts, poverty and HIV/AIDS – because God is at work in this land, said African Christian leaders Friday at the Lausanne conference.
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Chris Wright: the greatest hindrance to world mission is God's own people
Chris Wright calls the church to abandon its idolatry of power, pride, popularity and wealth, and return to a humble and simple faith in Christ.
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Burma's ethnic Christians fear bleak future after election
With Burma's first election in over 20 years just three weeks away, Christians in ethnic minority states fear that afterward the military regime will try to "cleanse" the areas of Christianity, sources said.
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Ex-Muslim: Great numbers of Imams and mullahs in West Africa turning to Christ
Hundreds of imams and mullahs from West Africa have been coming to Christ in the past decade and in turn sharing the Gospel with their peers, said a former Muslim who witnesses to Muslim scholars and clerics.