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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.
Kazakhstan: Pastor Deported, Orthodox Priest to Follow?
Baptist pastor Viktor Lim was ordered deported from Kazakhstan for leading a registered religious community and left in mid-August. Lim, a stateless person, had lived in the country for 20 years and his wife and children are Kazakh citizens.
Christian Aid funding emergency relief after deadly earthquakes in Pakistan
Christian Aid has sent funds to its partner relief agency in Pakistan after two deadly earthquakes hit the south-west of the country in the past week.
After Peshawar church bombing, more atrocities in Pakistan
Pakistani Christians nationwide have been demonstrating over the ongoing attacks on Christians, and in particular over Sunday's double suicide bombing of an after church meal in Peshawar.
Christianity in danger of becoming extinct in its birthplace
UK historian says Christians in Middle East are endangered species
Nigeria attack: Students shot dead as they slept
Suspected Islamist gunmen have attacked a college in north-eastern Nigeria, killing up to 50 students.