A priest of the Anglican Church of Sudan who stayed in El-Fasher to serve Christians remaining there was also forced to flee after an attack Sept. 16.

From an AI Bible Engagement Assistant to simple, slow reading of Scripture, the American Bible Society is backing projects at a seminary and three Christian universities.

“Helping these guys helps me,” said an Up and Running Again coach Tom McCall, a former convict turned runner who recently finished the Boston Marathon.

Emeritus Calvin University prof Kurt Ver Beek’s Association for a More Just Society is helping shape the methods of nonprofits in Honduras and other locations grappling with violence and police corruption.

A child psychologist by training, Dobson made the crossover from academia to religious-oriented culture making with his 1977 founding of Focus on the Family.

A fourth group of religious organizations filed a suit July 28.

Thousands of clergy in uniform provide counsel and care to military members of a range of faiths. Fifteen Christian Reformed chaplains are among them.

Reclaiming underutilized classrooms, storage spaces, and former nurseries, these spaces are empowering families to return to faith communities.

Dykstra served as vice president of religion at the Lilly Endowment in Indianapolis, shepherding some 6,300 grants to congregations, denominations and divinity schools.

“For the Care of Creation” will be added to the existing list of 17 Masses for special civil needs.

Christian leaders stress that the council and its anniversary still have relevance in the modern day, despite theological divides.

On a Tuesday evening in early April, an audience sat enraptured in Princeton Theological Seminary’s dining hall as, one by one, adults in their 20s walked up to a platform, took the microphone and shared a story.

“We are driven by the same heartbeat for the gospel, and together, we can do even more to serve the Church and societies worldwide,” said president of the Langley, B.C.-based Trinity Western University.

Analysing religious demographic data from Pew Research and data on immigrant populations from advocacy group FWD.us, four co-authors conclude that more than 10 million Christian immigrants in the U.S. are now vulnerable to deportation.

Both rival factions of the military government currently at war in Sudan have vowed to eliminate all Christians in the northeastern African country.

The “Prayer Vigil for Foreign Aid" event at Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church on March 11 included faith-based charitable groups such as World Renew.

Since the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump in January, several of his actions have received pushback from faith groups, including in the courts.

Generally, a decline in American religiousness observed since at least 2007 has slowed over the past four to five years, Pew Research shows in its 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study.

“The massive cutting of foreign aid to those most in need, and from many faith-based organizations supplying it is a gospel issue for us that we must speak to,” reads one of the letters from faith groups.

Christians around the world are being attacked and killed, forced to flee and driven underground, the annual report finds.

Considering 2022 data from 198 countries, a Pew Research Center report on religious persecution ranked 24 countries as high on both Government Restriction Social Hostilities indexes.

Faith leaders and mental health experts say religious traditions and faith communities can play a key role in helping people get through the winter holidays.

Resonate Global Mission, the missionary agency of the CRCNA, is among eight Christian organizations funding an independent investigation into allegations of abuse at Hillcrest School in Jos, Nigeria.