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Christian leaders pay tribute to Ravi Zacharias

Jeannie Law Wed 20 May 2020 6:17 BST

Christian leaders worldwide are paying tribute to Christian apologist, author and speaker, Ravi Zacharias, who died Tuesday from a rare form of cancer. He was 74.

Hundreds of Christians killed in Nigeria this year - report

Samuel Smith | Mon 18 May 2020 7:08 BST

About 620 Christians have been killed and hundreds of homes and churches damaged in Nigeria since the start of the year as attacks carried about by Fulani radicals and Islamic terrorists continue, a Nigerian NGO has warned.
Fears for Rohingya refugees as Covid-19 reaches camps

Staff writer | Sat 16 May 2020 9:27 BST

There are fears for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh after the first confirmed cases of Covid-19 were reported in the camps this week.
Online prayer event marks Christian schoolgirl's third birthday in captivity

Staff writer | Fri 15 May 2020 6:23 BST

Leah was one of over a hundred schoolgirls abducted by a faction of Boko Haram from their school in Dapchi, Yobe state on 19 February 2018.
Final coronavirus patients discharged from Samaritan's Purse field hospital in Italy

Staff writer | Fri 15 May 2020 6:02 BST

Samaritan's Purse has discharged the last of its patients from an emergency field hospital set up in Italy to treat people with coronavirus.
Two churches lose over 100 congregants to COVID-19

Staff writer | Wed 13 May 2020 23:23 BST

Two churches serving the Latino community in New York are mourning the deaths of over 100 congregants combined to COVID-19.
Belief that Donald Trump was 'anointed by God' increases among American Christians

Nate Flannagan | Wed 13 May 2020 12:00 BST

Donald Trump was "anointed by God" to his position as the United States president. This is the belief of a growing number of American churchgoers, according to a new report.
GOD TV says it will obey regulations in Israel amid fears of being shut down

Samuel Smith | Wed 13 May 2020 8:12 BST

The head of the international Christian television network GOD TV has said that Israeli authorities are looking to "shut down" its new Hebrew-language Christian channel after concerns were raised about whether the channel will proselytize to Jews.
ISIS has 'returned in force' to Iraq

Samuel Smith | Sat 9 May 2020 9:55 BST

As governments try to combat the spread of COVID-19, there has been a resurgence of deadly attacks by the Islamic State in Iraq over two years after the group's territorial defeat.
GOD TV in Israel threatened with closure

Samuel Smith | Thu 7 May 2020 9:13 BST

A new evangelical Christian television channel in Israel has been threatened with being shut down if it engages in any type of missionary activity
Abducted seminarian was killed because he shared Christian faith with his captors

Samuel Smith | Wed 6 May 2020 7:11 BST

A member of a Nigerian highway gang that's responsible for killing a kidnapped Catholic seminarian earlier this year admitted in a recent media interview that the aspiring priest was killed because he wouldn't stop proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ to his captors.
Churches in Germany re-open without handshakes

Michael Gryboski | Tue 5 May 2020 7:07 BST

Churches in Germany have been allowed to reopen this week, in keeping with the federal republic's easing of restrictions on gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Appeal launched to support world's poorest communities in fight against Covid-19

Staff writer | Thu 30 Apr 2020 7:20 BST

The implementation of social distancing measures and hand-washing campaigns in the world's poorest communities is a "herculean task", Christian aid agency Tearfund has warned.