Church leaders and activists from across Africa are calling for stronger protections for communities affected by mining, arguing that the continent’s growing role in the global energy transition is deepening long-standing concerns over land rights, environmental damage and unequal distribution of mineral wealth.
More Christians than Muslims were killed in terrorist attacks in Nigeria from October 2019 to September 2025, and Fulani assailants were responsible for more of the deaths than the designated terrorist groups that the Nigerian and U.S. governments are targeting, according to a new report.
For many Christians, the idea of partnering with God has been narrowed to a familiar set of categories: church work, evangelism, discipleship, and the saving of souls. All of these matter deeply. But the biblical vision of God’s mission and our vocations is far larger than that. We need a bigger perspective: a shalom view.
It is widely understood that Nepal has a rapidly growing Christian population. As it starts to stabilize and mature, the Church in Nepal is seeking official status and protections for their many congregations. The Nepal Christian Grand Trust now provides a pathway for official recognition, while theological, spiritual, and practical leadership development remains an urgent need.
The suffering of women and children often hides in plain sight, but they are not created for silence, fear, exploitation, abandonment, or shame. They are created with dignity, worth, courage, and humanity. Dr Winnie Fung is championing a wholistic approach to elevating the vulnerable and alleviating their suffering, with the local church integrally involved.
A new federation of churches in India has been launched to help protect church assets from being taken under amended laws giving authorities new powers that will negatively affect Christian witness. But the new group is already mired in controversy, for which groups it includes and which have been excluded.
On the morning of May 10, members of a Hindu nationalist organization arrived at Christian Sunday worship services in several neighborhoods of Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh state, India.
A North Korean pastor who survived hunger, forced labor and flight from his country told thousands of German Christians that the Kim dynasty is nearing its end — one of several firsthand accounts of persecution that shaped a three-day gathering in southwestern Germany this month.
