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For North Koreans, local residents say contact with Christians in China is sufficient to warrant execution or consignment to a political prison camp upon repatriation.

An interdenominational evangelical movement announced its expansion to the Philippines to help the body of Christ heal from the wounds it suffered during a previous election.

Christians are not just supposed to wait around waiting for the time they will go to heaven.

North Korean Christians suffer grave human rights violations, such as being crushed under a steamroller, a new report says.

The article is a compilation of articles on the topic of how to go about explaining the presence of evil in the world to a child.

While fear, angst and rage loom throughout Americans at the moment, many Christians don't know how to ultimately respond to the recent murders of LGBTQ community members in Florida, two African American men and 11 police officers. As Christians, some pastors say the answer should be simple: We stand against injustice, mourn with those who mourn, and love our neighbor as ourselves. All too often, people are silent when the values of unconditional love need to be spoken, reminds the TBC pastoral staff in California.

For 42 years, Garrison Keillor's soothing voice slid a slice of Americana into many lives through his popular radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." Keillor, who concluded his role as host on July 2 in an episode taped at the Hollywood Bowl, also injected a vigorous dose of religion into the show. For "church people," the stories and songs had a familiar, humorous ring.

Adolescents between the ages of 13 to 24 who are attending religious services tend to view less pornography, compared to others of the same age who are not going to church, finds a new paper published in the Journal of Adolescence.

A "Cave Church" in Egypt is one of the largest churches in the country, a place where 70,000-plus Christians gather every week to worship and praise Jesus -- a place that's home to one of the world's oldest Christian communities. The cave, also known as the Monastery of Saint Simon, is located in the Mokattam mountain in southeastern Cairo, in an area known as "garbage city" due to the large population of garbage collectors, or Zabbaleen, that live there.

Oscar-winning actor and film producer Mel Gibson is moving ahead with a sequel to "The Passion Of The Christ" that will recount the resurrection, script writer Randall Wallace told The Hollywood Reporter.

Christian reality TV actress and public speaker Sadie Robertson is among the film cast for "I'm Not Ashamed," which is a new movie about the first student killed 17 years ago in Colorado at Columbine High School, Rachel Joy Scott, because she was targeted due to her publicly known Christian faith.

Christians may hear the still voice of God in the wild of Californian deserts, says Mary Ann Swenson, bishop of the United Methodist Church, now that U.S. President Barack Obama designated the following 1.8 million acres of wild California desert as national monuments: Mojave Trails, Sand to Snow and Castle Mountains.

As Good Friday approaches within the next 24 hours, qualms are mounting about the welfare of a Salesian priest who was seized during a terrorist attack on a senior citizens' facility in Yemen on March 4. Father Tom Uzhunnalil was believed to have been kidnapped by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria radicals (ISIS), and dreadful Internet reports suggest he may be crucified by his captors on Good Friday, as Christians mark the day Jesus died. No group has claimed responsibility for kidnapping the priest, but a nun who survived the attack attributed it to ISIS.

A Seattle-based website with subsequent Facebook page called Christian Prayer Center and created by Benjamon Rogovy was discovered to have deceived its 1.3 million online friends into paying $9 to $35 for prayers for the past four years. Customers will be getting their money back in full, attorney general Bob Ferguson announced on Thursday, if they apply for a refund by June 12.

Globally oriented megachurch Hillsong Church is about to expand to non-stop status by teaming up with Trinity Broadcasting Network to launch a new 24-hour TV network. The Hillsong Channel is slated to launch June 15. The program will feature worship performances, messages from Christian leaders, conferences, documentaries, kids programs, talk shows and features for a global audience.

Petr Jasek, a filmmaker and missionary from the Czech Republic has been imprisoned in Sudan since December of last year. His crime, according to Sudanese authorities, is filming the ongoing Christian persecution in the country.

Many Christians have been inspired by Hillsong-branded music and worship. Additionally, Hillsong LA is one of several Hillsong churches globally, including congregations in Australia, France, England, South Africa, Germany and Brazil. Recently, Hillsong pastor Ben Houston, announced the "planting" of Hillsong's new San Francisco campus, but not all people welcome them into the Bay Area.

Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis on Wednesday received the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) President's Award for her unwavering commitment to Christian values in spite of government and media opposition. Davis was honored in Nashville, Tenn., at Proclaim 16 - the NRB International four-day Christian Media Convention of thousands of Christian communicators. Davis gained international attention after defying a federal court order requiring that she issue marriage licenses following the U.S. Supreme Court decision that supported same-sex marriages.

Survivors of sexual abuse - allegedly doled out by the pastor closely associated with the Arkansas-based Duggar reality TV family on TLC's "19 Kids and Counting" - detailed in exclusive interviews on Friday with the New York Daily News how that same conservative Christian preacher, Bill Gothard Jr., recruited them from their parents and preyed upon rape victims who came to him asking for recovery help.

Gospel for Asia, one of the largest mission organizations in the United States, is now facing a lawsuit for fraud and misuse of charitable donations, which were allegedly channeled into the personal empire of the organization's leader, K.P. Yohannan.

A Methodist pastor, a Christian blogger and a United Church of Christ reverend were announced as intended appointees by U.S. President Barack Obama to the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, according to a White House news release.

Environmental Protection Agency leaders on Monday launched the Food Steward's Pledge, an initiative to engage religious groups of all faiths to help redirect food headed to landfills instead to hungry mouths. The pledge is one element of the agency's larger plan to reduce food waste by 50 percent by 2030. It was announced just a day before the U.S. government stated the year 2015 was the Earth's warmest year on record.

Over 800 Wheaton College alumni have signed a petition threatening to withhold financial gifts to school until it reinstates a professor who was suspended last month for claiming that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.

Many are calling the release of Pastor Saeed Abedini a miracle and testimony to the power of prayer. While there is certainly plenty of truth in that, there was also a strategy involved. Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) worked tirelessly in connection to the release of Pastor Saeed Abedini. He says his "three point strategy" was to first, "get the State Department engaged. Secondly, we knew that we had to work with the international community as well. And, finally, here at home, we knew that it was vital to get members of Congress involved in the fight to free Pastor Saeed."

Thousands of people crowded into San Diego's Valley View Casino Center for Joel Osteen and Victoria Osteen's popular "Night of Hope" event, during which the pastor challenged attendees to trust God to bless the upcoming year.