The Vatican has issued new rules banning the sales of relics of future saints, including hair strands, hands, teeth and other body parts that are often sold for high prices at online auctions.Read More
A Hindu nationalist group has reportedly warned Christians schools in Aligarh, in India's Uttar Pradesh state, against celebrating Christmas where Hindu students are in the majority.Read More
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack at a Christian church in the Pakistani city of Quetta, where at least nine people were killed and more than 50 were injured.Read More
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court decision that dismissed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, which has been accused of performing abortions in its Louisville clinic without proper licensure.Read More
Hindu activists have reportedly beaten up eight priests outside a police station in India's Madhya Pradesh state while they were trying to assist Christians who were detained for allegedly trying to convert non-Christians.Read More
An Australian inquiry into child abuse has recommended that celibacy should be optional for Catholic priests and that members of the clergy should be prosecuted for failing to report evidence of pedophilia revealed to them in a confessional.Read More
A U.S. judge has blocked President Donald Trump's order that exempts religious employers from covering contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs on their employees' health insurance.Read More
As many as 15.6 million abortions were performed in India in 2015, with the majority of women taking pills at home without adequate counseling, according to the latest study conducted by the Guttmacher Institute.Read More
A school in Indiana has taken down a banner advertising a local church from a county football stadium after receiving a complaint from a Wisconsin-based secularist organization.Read More
As more than 1,300 civilians have been killed in Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, evangelist Franklin Graham is urging Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to agree on a ceasefire during the 10 days of Easter observances.
Suspected Fulani herdsmen shot to death four people, including a pastor and two women in two separate attacks in Benue State on Tuesday, according to Nigerian media reports.