For many schools, including the United Methodist Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C., the Master of Divinity degree could be moving online for good.

Open Doors keeps an annual ranking of the 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution for their faith. North Korea tops the list for the 20th consecutive year.

African American leaders and seminary presidents said they had an ‘honest and open conversation’ during the virtual meeting last week.

‘In this time of uncertainty and fear, Christians around the globe turn to Scripture and turn to song for comfort,’ according to the website Hymnary.org.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a reminder for many Christians that their worship is an in-person experience at its core.

In November, coinciding with the Christian social justice agency’s 50th anniversary, Sojourners named executive director Adam Taylor its new president, succeeding founder Jim Wallis.

In a December year in review, the online Bible search and reading tool describes four main themes revealed in its users’ searches.

Christian and Muslim leaders have stepped up interfaith dialogue in hopes of reining in the bus attacks and other threats to the border region’s small Christian community.

A cast of acclaimed actors, including headliner Bill Murray, and participants from Knox County, Ohio, aim to spark meaningful conversation by performing the Book of Job to an audience on Zoom.

A grassroots group of “former, current, and non-Methodist faith leaders” has announced the formation of an inclusive collaboration, the Liberation Methodist Connexion, or LMX.

The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a new rule intended to foster “full and equal participation” of religious groups as federal contractors.

The U.S. State Department added Nigeria to its list of countries deemed to have the most egregious violations of religious freedom. Nine other nations were also listed as countries of particular concern.

Surveying pastors in the United States in April and July, LifeWay Research found an increase in the reporting of disagreement and conflict as high pressure points in ministry.

Calvin University is among many schools in the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities making statements and changes this summer.

Christian magazine Sojourners has replaced founder and president Jim Wallis as editor in chief and announced a new policy of editorial independence from the organization's advocacy work.

A life-sized statue of the evangelist Billy Graham will be installed in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall collection sometime next year, replacing the statue of a former North Carolina governor described as a white supremacist.

As people deal with the impacts of the pandemic and civil unrest, many Christian leaders, organizations and churches are providing resources to care for members’ mental, as well as spiritual and physical, health.

In a 7-2 decision July 8, the Supreme Court of the United States carved out a broad ministerial exception to workplace discrimination rules that allows religious schools to include lay teachers as among those subject to an exemption from civil rights laws.

A June 30 decision by the U.S. high court has sparked debate over church-state separation.

A pilot program has brought together an intergenerational group of graduate students, social justice and policing consultants and senior pastors to determine what to do before, during, and after crises of racial injustice arise.

Two cases—Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. Biel—that involve a “ministerial exemption” to civil rights protections will be decided on this month.

Thirty-three people signed a public post accusing author Chris Heuertz of  “spiritual and psychological abuse." The Christian publishing company Zondervan responded by halting a documentary project and suspending promotion of two of his books.

Religion News Service reports that a June 18 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court is receiving praise from faith groups across the religious spectrum. The ruling temporarily halts  efforts to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which grants legal protection to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.