Christianity Archives

Christian family details crackdown on church in China

Associated Press, Church in Asia
Jul 8, 2019

China’s president and Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has ordered that all religions must “Sinicize” to ensure they are loyal to the officially atheistic party.

Scholars say new findings in Dead Sea Scrolls add dimension to holy days

Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East
Apr 19, 2019

This year, on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Passover, April 19, Christians in the West will commemorate Good Friday. As the eight-day holiday of Passover begins, new findings in the Dead Sea Scrolls are finally coming to light that add a new understanding and a new surprising dimension to these holy days.

UK denies asylum for Iranian Christian by saying Christianity not a ‘peaceful religion’

Church in UK and Ireland
Mar 22, 2019

Church leaders are lambasting a letter from a UK government department questioning the religious beliefs of an Iranian Christian asylum seeker.

As Mormons open Rome temple, doctrinal hiccups with Vatican endure

Church in Europe
Feb 13, 2019

Last month Rome became the location of Italy’s first Mormon temple, which sits just a few blocks from the Vatican, however, while the Mormon community says it is planning to partner with the Catholic Church on several social initiatives, what they aren’t saying is that technically speaking, the Vatican doesn’t even recognize the Church of Latter-Day Saints as Christian.

Jewish expert says John Paul II had it right on Church/State relations

Church in the US, Vatican
Nov 16, 2018

Joseph Weiler, a prominent professor of law at New York University, has said that at a time of high polemics when the religious voice has been “muted” from the public arena, Saint John Paul II’s social teaching offers a balanced approach to the interaction between church and a secular state.

Video looks at religion’s redemptive role on imprisoned gang members

Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
Oct 26, 2018

While researching a video project on gangs in El Salvador in 2015, freelance journalist Danny Gold stopped to talk to a guard who told him how a prison group with little to look forward to had found a positive path forward in life — and it involved religion.