Christian News

The Family Research Council’s latest annual analysis reveals that while the number of hostile incidents targeting U.S. churches dipped in 2024–down from a record high in 2023–it remains alarmingly elevated compared to pre-2022 levels.

Christian charity Mission Eurasia says it will help 30,000 often traumatized children in 14 nations this summer, most of them in Ukraine, as their “lives have been upended by Russia’s full-scale invasion.”

A Christian laborer forced to work in Pakistan’s harsh brick kiln industry is recovering after falling victim to an organ trafficking scheme “that ignited outrage” across the nation, according to an investigation shared with Worthy News.

Church leaders in Haiti expressed concern Sunday about the kidnapping of nine people, including an Irish missionary and a child with disabilities, as violence spreads throughout the Caribbean nation.

Evangelical missions are surging through Brazil’s Amazon, bringing medical aid, education, and the gospel to remote villages, reshaping the region’s spiritual identity and accelerating the nation’s shift away from Catholicism. Project Amazon’s Missionary boat alone treats 100,000 patients a year, fueling rapid church growth among indigenous communities. 

Militants allied with the Islamic State group (ISIS) are carrying out brutal attacks against Christians in central and southern Africa, including mass killings often through beheadings, as well as the destruction of churches and homes, investigators say. Advocacy groups and international officials warn of a growing crisis that they suggest is ignored by much of the world.

American evangelist Franklin Graham has welcomed a decision by U.S. President Donald J. Trump to allow federal employees, including Christians, to openly express their faith while at work, in a move that changes decades of policies.

In a city often dubbed one of the most unchurched in America, more than 35,000 people gathered this past weekend at the Moda Center for the first major evangelistic crusade in Portland in over 25 years — and more than 3,200 made public decisions to follow Christ.

Predominantly Muslim Fulani herdsmen have reportedly killed a Christian woman in a village in Nigeria’s Plateau State—the latest of 17 Christians slain in the area since July 15, local sources said Tuesday.

An evangelical pastor who spent two years under house arrest in Iran for his Christian faith has urged U.S. President Donald J. Trump to halt the deportation of Iranian Christians, warning they could face imprisonment or even execution for abandoning Islam.

Nabeel Masih, a young Christian man detained in 2016 in Pakistan for “blasphemy” against Islam, has died after years of suffering, imprisonment, and medical neglect, a representative told Worthy News Friday.

“A brutal assault” on a Christian sanitation worker in Pakistan’s Punjab province has highlighted discrimination and violence against impoverished minority laborers across the Islamic nation, investigators say.

A Christian ceremony to bless farm crops in India’s eastern Odisha state turned into “a brutal assault,” leaving at least 30 Christians injured, 10 of whom were hospitalized with critical wounds, Christians said Thursday.

A horrific massacre unfolded Sunday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where Islamic State-affiliated jihadists beheaded at least 49 Christians–nine of them children–during a church service in the village of Komanda. The attackers, members of the notorious Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), stormed a church where believers had gathered from surrounding villages to celebrate a Silver Jubilee and to pray for peace amid ongoing violence.

A Cuban pastor disappeared under mysterious circumstances this month, adding to growing international concern over religious repression on the island. Pastor Maikel Pupu Velázquez vanished shortly after delivering epilepsy medication to a family connected to Cuba’s dissident movement, only to reappear hours later clearly traumatized and mentally distressed.