The Latest Breaking News from Christianity

A new book, Convening Black Intimacy, explores the history of Christianity, gender and precolonial marriage and sex traditions in South Africa in the late 1800s and early 1900s. To conduct her study, historian Natasha Erlank drew on court records of cases of seduction, church records, anthropological texts, and many sources…

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Vienna, praised Saudi Arabia’s efforts to dissociate the Islamic religion from the phenomena of terrorism and isolation, stressing the importance of the Makkah Document in confronting hatred and extremist ideas and spreading tolerance and coexistence. During an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat in Riyadh,…

Across the world there’s a trend of far-right figures — many of them prominent Islamophobes — converting to Islam to counter rising ‘wokeness’.

Aside from young people, we don’t know for certain who is leaving Pentecostal churches. But anecdotally, it appears to be women.

The conventional narrative about Australian Christianity is that Pentecostal churches – most famously, Hillsong – are bucking the trend of declining attendance at the big denominations (such as Catholic and Anglican churches). That in fact, Pentecostal churches continue to grow.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Eight years ago, as writer-director Jon Erwin was researching an unrelated movie project, he stumbled across a 1971 issue of Time magazine, which featured a psychedelic purple picture of Jesus under the headline, “The Jesus Revolution.”

The 2021 census revealed more Australians are now Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and Hindus than ever before. In Logan, south of Brisbane, these faiths intermingle.

Jerusalem (AFP) - Trailblazer Sally Azar is hoping that her role as the Holy Land's first Palestinian woman pastor will inspire other women to reach for influential positions in religious and political life.

With religious affiliation on the decline, continuing racism and increasing income inequality, some scholars and activists are soul-searching about the Black church’s role in today’s United States.

Figures for England and Wales show under-40s more likely to declare ‘no religion’ than Christianity for first time

Claims of ‘Black antisemitism’ are a dangerous distraction. The truth is the fates of Black and Jewish Americans are linked