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Some call it trafficking, others bondage, but the people behind a new documentary want to call it slavery and talk about the 27 million slaves that exist in the world today.

Ahead of the G-20 summit, faith leaders gathered in Pittsburgh Wednesday to urge world leaders to focus more on the poverty issue.

A veteran fashion photographer who is used to having his works featured in Vogue, GQ and Elle, will release his most “rewarding” collection – “Journeys with the Messiah” – on Friday, the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Christian leaders need to reprioritize and direct efforts towards the 1.2 billion people in the “4/14 Window,” insists the mission strategist who coined the more widely known term “10/40 Window” two decades ago to refer those regions of the eastern hemisphere located between 10 and 40 degrees north of the equator.

A Chinese Christian woman who aided North Korean refugees in their escape to South Korea was sentenced to ten years in prison, her family recently was notified.

About one out of every three scientists in the United States professed believing in God, a recent survey found.

One hundred years after the first-ever global missions conference, leaders representing mission agencies from around the world will again gather, but this time in Tokyo.

A church in Mosul became the seventh Iraqi church bombed over the course of just 48 hours.

WASHINGTON – Evangelical pastor Rick Warren told a crowd of some 8,000 Muslim Americans that he wasn’t satisfied with just talking to them.

PASADENA, Calif. – The memorial service of Dr. Ralph D. Winter ran one hour over the scheduled ending time, but no one was complaining.

PASADENA Calif. – Dr. Ralph D. Winter, his wife Roberta, and his secretary Prudence had only about $100 in cash when they placed a bid for the $15 million campus of Pasadena College in California in 1976.

Facing a tough job market, more young college graduates are deciding to serve in the mission field – at least for short-term, reports a mission-sending agency.

Although President Obama’s speech was generally hailed as successful in placing the U.S. and the Muslim world on better terms, some Christians and Muslims found fault with what he chose not to say.

President Obama called on the Muslim world to respect people’s right to choose their religion in his Cairo address on Thursday.

A giant has passed away, lamented colleagues of the late missiologist Dr. Ralph D. Winter.

American Christians across the nation will band together the day after Independence Day to repent and pray for God to heal the country.

One of China’s most prominent human rights lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, is still missing after more than 100 days since he was abducted by Chinese public security officers.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Christian pollster George Barna made a controversial argument Wednesday night that Americans are to blame for the destruction of their country and it is up to faith groups to restore it.

With the annual National Day of Prayer just days away, signs indicate that the White House will not hold a formal event to mark the day.

Everyday he lives not knowing if he will see the next sunrise. He is not an outlaw or a man with a terminal disease. He is a machine gun toting pastor in the middle of nowhere in Africa on a dangerous mission to save the children of Sudan from the unconscionable horrors carried out by an insane local rebel group.

WASHINGTON – A panel of diverse Christian leaders sent a strong message to churches Wednesday when they stated that poverty is not a political issue but a biblical one.

The wife of China’s most famous human rights lawyer was present during a Congressional session Thursday when Sen. Bryon Dorgan (D-N.D.) spoke on the Senate floor about the case of Gao Zhisheng, who remains detained in an unknown location since being kidnapped by Chinese officials in February.

More than a dozen Bible Society donors traveled to China last week to see first hand how the Scripture is being printed and distributed in the country that boasts one of the world’s fastest growing Christian populations.

While international attention is focused on North Korea’s rocket threat, a citizen living inside the country raised another concern that often is overlooked.

Life is like perishable food – you either use it or lose it, said the former Baptist preacher turned politician Mike Huckabee to students at Liberty University on Monday.