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Christians in Turkey are experiencing a "climate of hatred" that has blamed them for the coronavirus pandemic.

Three Christians sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran have lost their appeals.

A cross believed to be 1,200-years-old has been uncovered in the Himalayas in Pakistan.

It was one of the many finds at what archaeologists believe is a Christian settlement dating back to the 7th century AD.

A blueprint for a controversial new national security law for Hong Kong, as proposed by China, has caused concerns that the semi-autonomous city's vocal clergy who have supported the democracy movement could be extradited to and tried in mainland China.

Hopes that the transitional government in Sudan would allow Christianity as a school subject alongside Islam wilted when officials omitted it from an academic schedule released last week, sources said.

A religious freedom scholar told the United States' top religious freedom panel that the U.S. troop pullback in northeastern Syria has created a "vacuum" that has allowed Turkish forces and affiliated opposition groups to carry out war crimes against Christians and other religious minorities.

Dr Martin Luther King's niece Alveda King and crossbench peer Lord Alton were among the speakers at the March for Life UK 2020, which was held online over the weekend due to coronavirus concerns.

The vast majority of American pastors support peaceful anti-racism protests, new research by the Barna Group has found.

A new parliamentary report has raised fears of an "unfolding genocide" in Nigeria, where thousands of Christians have been killed in recent years.

Inaction thus far is already a blight on the conscience of the international community. It is past time for that inaction to end.

Dozens of evangelical theologians have added their names to a statement condemning racism as "contrary to Scripture and to the evangelical gospel".

The heads of the Church of England and Catholic Church in England and Wales have expressed their opposition to the annexation of West Bank territory by Israel.

Crosses were removed from over 250 state-sanctioned churches in China's Anhui province between January and April as the Communist Party's years-long crackdown on church crosses continues, according to the Italian-based magazine Bitter Winter.

Faith leaders at the roundtable said that religious communities had a vital role to play in tackling the pandemic.