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Kenya: Salvation Army church in Mombasa razed after cleric's murder
Murder causes riots in days after siege of Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi
Billboards in New York's Times Square reach out to atheists
Billboards inviting atheists to explore the case for God are going up in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
African migrants risk lives to flee war and persecution
Freedom to choose faith one factor driving them into smugglers' boats
Leaving home: Christians who remain in Syria face a grim future
Fears that Islamic extremism is gaining ground in Syria
India: Violence against Christians on the rise in Karnataka
Incidents of violence against Christians in India's Karnataka state have spiked since June, including hospitalisation of a school helper this month after Hindu extremists beat her and marched her through the streets.
Call to protect migrants after Lampedusa sinking
The EU and Italy must take urgent action to prevent more migrants dying at sea after the tragic sinking off the Italian island of Lampedusa this week.
Church leader urges Pakistan to protect people from terrorism
The head of the World Council of Churches has written to the prime minister of Pakistan urging him to take steps to prevent further terrorist attacks.
Promised legal reforms disappoint Turkey's religious minorities
Latest reforms positive but inadequate, say minority groups
Chuck Smith dies at 86: Passes away after cancer struggle
Chuck Smith, the evangelical pastor who preached the Gospel to a generation of hippies, died on Thursday after battling lung cancer. Â
Churchmen attacked in Central African Republic
Two Catholic clerics in the Central African Republic were bound and robbed by armed men on Friday, Sept. 27. Italian missionary Fr Beniamino Gusmeroli, and Fr Martial Mengue, a Central African deacon, were attacked by men believed to be Sudanese.
Call for unhindered humanitarian access in Syria
A coalition of 16 international humanitarian agencies welcome today's statement from the UN Security Council calling for unhindered humanitarian access in Syria.
Missing Italian priest 'still alive'
An Italian Jesuit priest who went missing in Syria several months ago is still alive, according to an Assyrian priest speaking at the European Parliament on Tuesday.
Bangladeshi Christians told to close church, convert to Islam
Eight converts forced to recant faith under duress from local council chairman
Wife of Amish school shooter talks about her hope in the Lord
Marie Monville's husband Charlie Roberts was 32 when he walked into an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania on 2 October 2006, shooting dead five schoolgirls before turning the gun on himself.
Nigeria: Bishop says Islamist insurgency 'has no limits' to its targets
The militant Islamist sect Boko Haram is suspected of killing at least 110 people of various faiths across Nigeria during the past week, prompting the country's top Catholic bishop to declare the rebel movement "has no limits".
Muslims expel six Christian brothers from village in Egypt
Violence against Egyptian Christians erupted yesterday in the village of Zakaria, located in the Upper Egyptian province of Minya.