Mosab Hassan Yousef, 30, said that his decision to abandon his Muslim faith and denounce his father's organisation had exposed his family to persecution in his home town of Ramallah and endangered his own life.

Hundreds of Christian theology students have been living in tents since a mob of angry Muslim neighbors stormed their campus last month wielding bamboo spears and hurling Molotov cocktails.

Suspected Maoists killed a senior Hindu leader and four others in a remote eastern Indian village, an attack that police said may be linked to a controversy over religious conversions in the area.

Churches are usually regarded as sacred places where people go to worship and ask for forgiveness. However, that did not stop criminals from stealing a 200-year-old bell from St John the Baptist Anglican church in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal.

The group counters attacks on the Democrat while broadening issues important to Evangelicals and others.

A violent brawl may have started because the Hells Angels thought a Christian motorcycle ministry was claiming an affiliation with them, according to court documents made public Thursday.

The murder of a Catholic priest in India has stirred believers in the country to cry for more protection by the government amid continued Christian persecution.

An American Baptist leader joined the international community in expressing his sadness at the death of Zambia president Levy Mwanawasa, whom he calls a man of faith and a friend.

The Amish - the quiet, reclusive religious sect which disdains trappings of the modern world like electricity and get around in horse-drawn buggies - have seen their population in the United States nearly double in the past 16 years, according to a study.

Social conservatives are growing more wary of church involvement in politics, joining moderates and liberals in their unease about blurring the lines between pulpit and ballot box, a new study found.

Eric Liddell, the subject of the Academy Award winning film, Chariots of Fire, and his passion for sport and Christ is featured yet again at the Olympics - but this time, it is his life story in the book entitled "Running the Race", published by Evangelical Press.

The future for Pakistan's minority Christian community is uncertain after the resignation of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf this week, says Glenn Penner of Voice of the Martyrs Canada.

Already in its second printing, a newly released book by one of the country's most innovative pastors is fast-becoming a must-read for church leaders who really want to have it.

Here's a feature from Nicole Neroulias of Religion News Service about two "mohels" -- Jewish ritual circumcisers -- in the Northeast who say they have an increasingly Christian clientele.

Singer refutes tabloid story that quoted her mom, evangelical Christian preacher Mary Hudson, as calling 'I Kissed a Girl' 'shameful and disgusting.'

The Chinese Government has gone to new extremes to prevent anyone from protesting in its three official Olympic protest parks, with two elderly Christian residents each ordered to serve a year's "re-education through labour".

Singer Katy Perry refutes tabloid story that quoted her evangelical preacher mom as calling 'I Kissed a Girl' 'shameful and disgusting.'

After Saturday night’s televised forum at the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., John McCain has taken an important step toward shoring up his support among the Republican Party’s Christian conservative base.

A group of American Christians who had more than 300 Bibles confiscated by Chinese customs officials said they got them back when they returned to the airport Wednesday to leave the country.

Compensation packages, including benefits such as retirement, life insurance, health insurance and continuing education allowances, have increased to $81,113 per year for the average senior pastor, a recent national survey shows.

Moderator Rick Warren of the Saddleback Civil Forum said presidential hopeful Barack Obama needed to be more specific in his answer to the question of when life begins.

Dialogue between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church has not necessarily come to an end, a Vatican official has stated.

Am I the only viewer of Rick Warren presidential forum to cringe when Barack Obama and John McCain offered their bona fides as believing Christians?

A leading Christian group for medical professionals is echoing concerns about a California Supreme Court ruling that it says could have negative ramifications for pro-life physicians. The state high court ruled that doctors have an obligation to provide medical care regardless of their religious or moral views.

I believe, sport is part of God’s creation: it is good and to be enjoyed. The words attributed to the Christian athlete Eric Liddell as he runs in the film Chariots of Fire are: “God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast and when I run, I feel his pleasure”. They express a profound truth, writes director of Verité Sport, Stuart Weir.