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A new report from the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law documents 3,083 Christians killed and 400 churches attacked in Nigeria between January and August 2026, calling the pace of violence a genocide.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” · Ephesians 2:8-9
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.
The court ruled unanimously that judges cannot second-guess a church's own doctrine on what counts as a confidential confession, shielding clergy from the state's abuse-reporting law in those cases.
The justices agreed to decide whether an Ohio man can sue over a city's demand that he get a special-use permit before hosting a small religious gathering in his own home.
The Tenth Circuit unanimously ruled that former donors waited too long to sue over how their tithing was used, handing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints its last major win in a multi-state fraud fight.
A new World Relief and Open Doors US report says the United States resettled zero refugees from the world's 50 most oppressive countries for Christians in fiscal year 2026, a complete halt compared to prior years.
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.
SBC messengers voted 3 to 1 to strengthen the denomination's constitutional ban on women serving as pastors, elders, or preaching to the congregation.
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 Diocese of Arlington is asking priests to read a message at every Mass the weekend before early voting begins, opposing two proposed state constitutional amendments on the November ballot.
The University of Valley Forge will suspend academic operations after this summer's semester, citing financial strain and a Middle States accreditor warning, and is helping its 589 students transfer elsewhere.
The Horizon Texas Conference is suing Highland Park United Methodist Church, alleging the Dallas megachurch quietly rewrote its governing documents to sever ties with the denomination without required approval.
The Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference voted to combine the North Georgia and South Georgia conferences into a single body of over 215,000 members, a consolidation driven by years of financial strain following a wave of congregational exits.
Franklin Graham's relief organization withdrew from a two-year, $300 million government disaster-response award, part of a broader $2 billion federal funding push to faith-based groups announced weeks earlier.
Fifty bishops and denominational leaders representing more than 21,000 Pentecostal congregations gathered in Washington to ask the Trump administration to extend Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans and restore it for Haitians.
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.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld a ruling giving a father final say over his daughter's religious upbringing after finding the church's teachings on the rapture had harmed her.
Three Houston-area mothers lost their bid to immediately block Ten Commandments posters from Texas classrooms, though their underlying lawsuit under the state's religious freedom law continues.
A Sunnyvale family says their district told teachers to resist honoring religious opt-out requests, dismissing last year's Mahmoud v. Taylor ruling as inapplicable in California.
In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, the DOJ accuses a Kansas City, Kansas school district of helping students socially transition at school while withholding that information from parents, including families with religious objections.
Dozens of legal briefs from state attorneys general, senators, and advocacy groups back California parents challenging a state law that bars schools from telling parents when a child socially transitions gender at school.
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.
Members of the Viv Ansanm gang coalition stormed an evangelical church in Kenscoff, Haiti, that was sheltering families displaced by earlier violence, killing 47 people and kidnapping more than 50.
Israel's military declared Taybeh, the last entirely Christian village in the West Bank, closed to nonresidents through 2027 after a rise in fires, property damage, and intimidation by Israeli settlers.
Pastor David Tang of Wenzhou's unregistered Purpose Driven Church and six others disappeared after a cross-provincial police operation, with authorities refusing to disclose their whereabouts or the reason for their detention.
A Christian family in Chhattisgarh, India had their home's roof torn apart and their water and electricity cut off after refusing to take part in a Hindu reconversion ceremony.
Pastor Wang Sanyuan, 73, leader of a government-registered church in Shandong Province, has not been heard from since he was taken by authorities in March, and his family still has no word on his whereabouts or legal status.
Plateau State's governor ordered security agencies to arrest members of a group operating as Hisbah, an unauthorized Islamic enforcement patrol accused of harassing residents and demanding money in Jos North.
A 17-year-old Christian was severely beaten with iron rods and motorcycle chains after he confronted a group that had been harassing girls walking to church in a Christian neighborhood outside Lahore.