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Five Christian civilians had hid themselves in a basement for three weeks to escape the guns of Islamic State (IS) fighters in Philippine city of Marawi before they fled for their lives.

Intense violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) has claimed several victims including a church pastor allegedly killed for building a church.

As many as one fifth of teenagers are 'active followers of Jesus', according to new research.

A Filipino Catholic priest and some parishioners have been kidnapped and taken hostage by radical Islamic terrorists.

The Mormon church announced plans to pull as many as 185,000 youngsters from the Boy Scouts on Thursday as it looks to start its own scout programme.

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has preached a powerful sermon in Jerusalem declaring that the presence of Christians is 'essential to the life and hope of this whole area'.

A Christian Pakistani family have reported that their 14-year old daughter was abducted during an armed robbery of the family's home.

A Jewish community association in northern Sweden has decided to close following a series of threats from far-right activists, seven years after it opened.

The pastor of an online church in Iran was able to lead a young Muslim drug addict and his mother to Jesus, and it all started with a phone call.

A young deaf girl from a Central Asian country was badly beaten by her Muslim family after they found out that she is now a follower of Jesus Christ.

Aliyah in the Jewish tradition refers to when a Jewish person 'rises up' to Israel – immigrates to Israel. Since the founding of the modern State of Israel in 1948, millions of Jews from around the world have made aliyah, helping to build Israel into the strong and vibrant democracy that it is today.

More and more Muslims are seeing Jesus in their dreams, with each of their testimonies revealing their amazing conversion.

God is capable of transforming even people with the hardest of hearts, and this is exactly what He did to Bashir Mohammad, a former jihadist who once believed that killing Christians was the right thing to do.

A stashed collection of ancient bronze coins that may have belonged to Christians fleeing invading Persian forces has been found on the highway to Jerusalem in an archaeological dig.

I have a lot of fears. The sound a missile makes before it hits. The smell of gunpowder mixed with blood. The possibility I will never see my sisters or childhood friends ever again.