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SBC messengers voted 3 to 1 to strengthen the denomination's constitutional ban on women serving as pastors, elders, or preaching to the congregation.
“Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” · Joshua 1:9
The Fourth Circuit upheld an injunction blocking immigration arrests near churches and other houses of worship while a lawsuit over a 2025 policy change continues.
The Court ruled 9 to 0 that Wisconsin violated the First Amendment by denying a tax exemption to Catholic Charities because it serves people of all faiths.
The Justice Department issued updated religious liberty guidance incorporating recent Supreme Court rulings, following an earlier task force report on anti-Christian bias.
The Court agreed to hear a case over a Catholic preschool's exclusion from Colorado's universal preschool program, on the heels of a deadlocked religious charter school case.
The First Circuit partially upheld Maine's antidiscrimination rules as applied to a Catholic school in the state's tuition assistance program.
A Liberty University student is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a 2004 ruling that lets states deny college aid to students pursuing religious degrees.
A Travis County court ruled the state's judicial conduct commission cannot discipline a justice of the peace for declining to officiate same-sex weddings on religious grounds.
A Texas judge dismissed a proposed settlement that would have let churches endorse political candidates from the pulpit without losing their tax-exempt status.
Delegates at the RCA's General Synod adopted a statement declaring Christian Nationalism opposed to the gospel, joining a wider pattern of denominations taking an official position.
The Presbyterian Church in America voted down a proposal to allow women deacons and moved a partial report on Christian Nationalism forward for further study.
Commissioners voted to let congregations signal openness to LGBTQIA+ pastors and advanced a denomination-wide study on sexuality and family.
Dozens of Evangelical Presbyterian Church congregations are seeking dismissal after the denomination reaffirmed its position on same-sex attraction and ordination.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will create 55 new missions, bringing its total to 506, to keep pace with a growing number of missionaries.
The four-year-old denomination is meeting in Johannesburg this week to elect eight bishops, its first General Conference held on the African continent.
Delegates at the LCMS national convention approved a resolution urging congregations to teach on Christian martyrdom in light of recent attacks on believers.
The country's largest Protestant foster and adoption agency will only license foster families whose beliefs align with its Statement of Faith, reversing a 2021 policy.
A June 2025 Supreme Court ruling requiring schools to let parents opt kids out of religiously objectionable material is still being implemented in districts nationwide.
Families are challenging a California policy that strips funding from homeschoolers the moment their chosen curriculum turns out to be religious.
Three families argue a state scholarship rule forces them to set aside their religious convictions for a year before they can get help paying for Catholic school.
New federal guidance says states cannot remove children from their homes solely because parents decline to affirm a child's gender identity for religious reasons.
Pastor Ezra Jin was released and reunited with family in the U.S. after a nationwide crackdown on his unregistered Chinese church, though several colleagues remain detained.
Iranian authorities have moved to confiscate a nearly 150-year-old Tehran church and evict the low-income Christian families living on its property.
Two Sudanese church leaders and several family members were kidnapped by armed groups and released within days, amid a wider surge in attacks on Christians in the region.
Gunmen attacked a farming community in Nigeria's Plateau State, killing at least 24 people, most of them women and children, in the latest of several attacks in the region this month.
Kevin Rideout, a missionary pilot who had lived in Niger for nearly two decades, was released after being kidnapped near his home last October.
Dr. Augustinos Samaan, sentenced to five years of hard labor for videos comparing Christianity and Islam, will get an appeal hearing after a trial his lawyers say they were shut out of.
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