Christian Today staff writer

• Trump faces world outcry, including from Christians, as he denies 'vile, vulgar' comments about immigrants

  Facing strong condemnation at home and abroad, including from Christians, Donald Trump last night denied using the word 's***hole' to describe Haiti and African countries, but kept up criticism of a Senate immigration plan that he said would force the US to admit people from countries that 'are doing badly'.

• Bolivia: Christians under attack as new law threatens evangelism

  Christians in Bolivia are warning they could be about to see the end of religious freedom in their country, according to Evangelical Focus.

• Pope Francis could meet sex abuse survivors as protests loom in Chile visit

  Pope Francis is set to meet with victims of Chile's oppressive military dictatorship on his upcoming visit to the country. As protests over the clerical child abuse scandal continue to flare in the Chilean Catholic Church, the Vatican said the Pope hasn't ruled out meeting with clerical sex abuse survivors too.

• Former missionary gets 40 years for abusing Haitian children

  A former missionary to Haiti has been sentenced to 40 years imprisonment, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for child sex tourism.

• Kidnapped nuns freed after Nigerian police operation

  Six women religious have been have been released from captivity in Nigeria after being abducted last November.

• Anglican vicar chaining herself to London tree to fight HS2 green destruction

  An Anglican vicar will chain herself to a tree today outside London's Euston station, as part of a protest against the clearing of more than 200 trees planned to make way for the controversial HS2 rail network.

• Senior staff leave as trouble hits Moody Bible Institute

  The troubled Moody Bible Institute has shed three of its most senior figures after accusations of financial and other impropriety rocked the venerable evangelical institution.

• 'Marked increase' in Jews converting to Christianity, says Christian Witness to Israel

  One of the world's oldest missionary organisations is celebrating its 175th anniversary this month in Oxford.

• Vatican takes control of scandal-hit conservative Catholic movement

  Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican takeover of a conservative Catholic society in Peru whose founder is accused of sexually and physically abusing children and former members of the group.

• South Sudan: Anglican archbishop attacks military over soldiers accused of rape

  An Anglican archbishop in South Sudan is accusing his government of failing to take seriously accusations of rape by soldiers.

• Zambia bans church services as it battles deadly cholera epidemic

  Zambia has banned church assemblies in parts of its capital city Lusaka, as the nation fights to deter an epidemic of cholera.

• Chinese state destroys Christian megachurch as religious crackdown continues

  The Chinese government this week demolished with explosives a notorious Christian megachurch in its Shanxi province, heightening tensions between Chinese Christians and the government's atheistic communist regime.