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Report: Over 3,000 Christians Killed in Nigeria in First Eight Months of 2026

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.

Source: Catholic World Report · Sep 8, 2026
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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

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Liberty Desk

Appeals Court Upholds Limits on Immigration Arrests at Houses of Worship

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.

Source: Christianity Today · Aug 20, 2026
Liberty Desk

Supreme Court Sides Unanimously With Catholic Charity in Tax Exemption Case

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.

Source: The Hill · Jun 5, 2025
Liberty Desk

DOJ Updates Religious Liberty Guidance for Federal Agencies

The Justice Department issued updated religious liberty guidance incorporating recent Supreme Court rulings, following an earlier task force report on anti-Christian bias.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice · Jul 23, 2026
Liberty Desk

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Catholic Preschool Excluded From State Program

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.

Source: SCOTUSblog · Apr 20, 2026
Liberty Desk

Appeals Court Rules on Religious Schools and State Tuition Programs

The First Circuit partially upheld Maine's antidiscrimination rules as applied to a Catholic school in the state's tuition assistance program.

Source: Mondaq · Jul 2, 2026
Liberty Desk

Virginia Student Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Rule Barring Aid for Religious Majors

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.

Source: First Liberty Institute · Aug 11, 2026
Liberty Desk

Texas Judge Wins $640,000 After Refusing to Perform Same-Sex Weddings

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.

Source: Christian Post · Jun 23, 2026
Liberty Desk

Federal Judge Rejects Deal to Let Churches Endorse Political Candidates

A Texas judge dismissed a proposed settlement that would have let churches endorse political candidates from the pulpit without losing their tax-exempt status.

Source: The Texas Tribune · Mar 31, 2026
Liberty Desk

Arizona Supreme Court Rules Churches Decide What Counts as Confession

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.

Source: Religion News Service · Jul 30, 2026
Liberty Desk

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Home Prayer Meetings and Zoning Permits

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.

Source: Catholic World Report · Jun 30, 2026
Liberty Desk

Appeals Court Rules for LDS Church in Long-Running Tithing Lawsuit

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.

Source: Deseret News · Aug 31, 2026
Liberty Desk

Report: US Has Resettled No Persecuted Christian Refugees This Year

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.

Source: Christianity Today · Sep 4, 2026
Church Desk

Reformed Church in America Formally Condemns Christian Nationalism

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.

Source: Reformed Church in America · Jun 12, 2026
Church Desk

PCA Rejects Female Deacons Proposal, Advances Christian Nationalism Report

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.

Source: Christian Post · Jun 25, 2026
Church Desk

PC(USA) Assembly Opens Door to LGBTQIA+ Pastor Openness, Advances Sexuality Study

Commissioners voted to let congregations signal openness to LGBTQIA+ pastors and advanced a denomination-wide study on sexuality and family.

Source: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) · Jun 29, 2026
Church Desk

More Than 45 EPC Churches Move to Leave Over Sexuality Vote

Dozens of Evangelical Presbyterian Church congregations are seeking dismissal after the denomination reaffirmed its position on same-sex attraction and ordination.

Source: MinistryWatch · Jun 18, 2026
Church Desk

LDS Church to Open 55 New Missions Worldwide

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.

Source: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Newsroom · Jul 1, 2026
Church Desk

Southern Baptists Advance Amendment Formalizing Ban on Women Pastors

SBC messengers voted 3 to 1 to strengthen the denomination's constitutional ban on women serving as pastors, elders, or preaching to the congregation.

Source: Christian Post · Jun 10, 2026
Church Desk

Global Methodist Church Holds First General Conference on African Soil

The four-year-old denomination is meeting in Johannesburg this week to elect eight bishops, its first General Conference held on the African continent.

Source: Global Methodist Church · Aug 30, 2026
Church Desk

Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Adopts Resolution on Modern-Day Martyrdom

Delegates at the LCMS national convention approved a resolution urging congregations to teach on Christian martyrdom in light of recent attacks on believers.

Source: The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod · Jul 23, 2026
Church Desk

Virginia Bishops Urge Catholics to Vote Against Abortion and Marriage Amendments

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.

Source: The Daily Signal · Aug 29, 2026
Church Desk

Assemblies of God College Closes After 87 Years Amid Financial Crisis

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.

Source: University of Valley Forge · Jul 29, 2026
Church Desk

United Methodist Regional Body Sues Prominent Dallas Megachurch

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.

Source: People Newspapers · Aug 10, 2026
Church Desk

United Methodists Merge Two Georgia Conferences After Years of Departures

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.

Source: Christian Post · Aug 12, 2026
Church Desk

Samaritan's Purse Turns Down $300 Million in Federal Aid Funding

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.

Source: Christianity Today · Aug 28, 2026
Church Desk

Hispanic Pentecostal Leaders Press White House to Extend Protection for Salvadoran Immigrants

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.

Source: Christianity Today · Sep 8, 2026
Family Desk

Bethany Christian Will Require Foster Families to Share Its Faith Statement

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.

Source: Christianity Today · Jun 12, 2026
Family Desk

What Parents Should Know About the School Opt-Out Ruling Still Shaping Classrooms

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.

Source: Congressional Research Service · Jun 27, 2025
Family Desk

California Parents Ask Supreme Court to Hear Homeschool Religious Materials Case

Families are challenging a California policy that strips funding from homeschoolers the moment their chosen curriculum turns out to be religious.

Source: Christian Post · Aug 20, 2026
Family Desk

Catholic Families Sue Georgia Over Rule Requiring Public School Before Scholarship Aid

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.

Source: WTVM · Aug 24, 2026
Family Desk

Federal Agency Tells States Parents Can't Lose Custody Over Religious Beliefs on Gender

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.

Source: Administration for Children and Families · Mar 3, 2026
Family Desk

Maine's Top Court Lets Father Bar Daughter From Mother's Church

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.

Source: Bangor Daily News · Sep 2, 2026
Family Desk

Judge Denies Temporary Hold on Ten Commandments in Texas Classrooms

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.

Source: KWTX · Aug 7, 2026
Family Desk

California Parents Sue School District for Ignoring Supreme Court Opt-Out Ruling

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.

Source: Becket · Jun 22, 2026
Family Desk

Justice Department Sues Kansas School District Over Secret Gender Transitions

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.

Source: KCUR · Sep 1, 2026
Family Desk

Coalition of 17 States and Five Senators Backs Parents in California Gender-Policy Case

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.

Source: Catholic World Report · Sep 8, 2026
World Desk

China Releases Zion Church Pastor After Nine Months in Detention

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.

Source: Al Jazeera · Jul 4, 2026
World Desk

Iran Moves to Seize Tehran's Oldest Protestant Church, Evict Families

Iranian authorities have moved to confiscate a nearly 150-year-old Tehran church and evict the low-income Christian families living on its property.

Source: Christian Post · Jun 28, 2026
World Desk

Sudanese Pastors and Family Members Kidnapped, Later Released

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.

Source: Christian Post · Aug 1, 2026
World Desk

At Least 24 Christians Killed in Overnight Attack on Nigerian Village

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.

Source: International Christian Concern · Aug 18, 2026
World Desk

American Missionary Freed After Nine Months Held Captive in Niger

Kevin Rideout, a missionary pilot who had lived in Niger for nearly two decades, was released after being kidnapped near his home last October.

Source: Christianity Today · Aug 14, 2026
World Desk

Egypt's Top Court Sets November Hearing for Coptic Researcher's Blasphemy Appeal

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.

Source: Coptic Solidarity · Aug 12, 2026
World Desk

Gang Kills 47 in Attack on Haitian Church Sheltering Displaced Families

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.

Source: International Christian Concern · Aug 23, 2026
World Desk

Israeli Military Closes West Bank's Last Christian Village to Halt Settler Attacks

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.

Source: Christianity Today · Aug 9, 2026
World Desk

Chinese Pastor and Six Church Members Vanish After Police Raid

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.

Source: ChinaAid · Aug 5, 2026
World Desk

Hindu Mob Tears Off Roof of Christian Family's Home in India, Cuts Utilities

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.

Source: International Christian Concern · Sep 2, 2026
World Desk

Chinese Pastor Still Missing Nearly Six Months After Arrest

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.

Source: International Christian Concern · Sep 3, 2026
World Desk

Nigerian Governor Orders Crackdown on Unauthorized Islamic Vigilante Group

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.

Source: International Christian Concern · Aug 30, 2026
World Desk

Christian Teen Beaten by Mob in Pakistan for Confronting Harassers

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.

Source: International Christian Concern · Aug 16, 2026