A church in England has erased references to the nativity and Jesus in a Christmas carol and replaced them with a celebration of “queer” people. Yes, really. All Saints with Holy Trinity Church in Loughborough held a Mayor’s Community Carol Service on Monday. In a Twitter post, trainee priest Rachael Brind-Surch lauded how the church had changed the lyrics to the classic carol “God Rest Ye... 

Romanian prime minister Nicolae Ciuca has held meetings with religious leaders (Orthodox, Catholic, Jews, Muslims) to talk about implementing the vaccine passport QR code for attending church liturgy or entering church for any purpose, even for short stay such as lighting a candle and leaving. According to reports, they want the implementation of this new rule as soon as possible because they are... 

The Washington D.C. based research centre has been analysing and tracking trends for over a decade. The data also included a rise from 2017 to 2018 in the number of governments using force in the form of detentions and physical abuse to coerce religious groups. As of 2018, 25 of the 56 countries with high or very high levels of government restrictions on religion were in the Asia-Pacific region or... 

It began with Confederate generals and quickly escalated to Columbus and former US presidents; now the monument-removal crusade has come for Jesus, with racial activist Shaun King insisting the depictions are ‘racist propaganda.’ “Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down,” King tweeted on Monday. “They are a form of white supremacy. Always... 

People can go ahead and claim that the coronavirus hoax is not a part of a satanic conspiracy, but they’re going to get proved wrong just like they were proved wrong when they said this wasn’t a conspiracy, or that it wouldn’t collapse the economy. This is a satanic conspiracy. Whether you are a Christian or not, that is a fact. They are arresting pastors, now they’re ordering churches to... 

Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic signed a bitterly contentious legislation on religion and faith into law that will allow Montenegro state to confiscate Orthodox churches. Djukanovic, who has ruled Montenegro for most of the nearly three decades has long sought to curb the influence of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Full transcript below. Transcript: The troubled times has come to Montenegro. This... 

Today, around 120,000 Syriac Christians reside in Sweden. While many of them fled genocide in the Middle East, attacks against their churches and threats against their organisations are still not uncommon. Following repeated threats, the Syriac National Federation in Sweden has stepped up security measures, from camera surveillance to its own security guards, the news outlet Samhällsnytt reported. A... 

The Sri Lankan suicide bombing attacks have turned the spotlight on the problem of Christians facing persecution worldwide, including in Europe, analysts told Sputnik, stressing that the cases of discrimination and oppression remain largely neglected by politicians and media pundits. On 21 April, a series of blasts shattered the peaceful island nation of Sri Lanka, claiming the lives of more than... 

At least 290 people have been killed and 500 more injured in a series of explosions targeting churches holding Easter services and hotels in Sri Lanka. Most of the dead are believed to have been Sri Lankans, but officials say about 30 people from other countries have lost their lives. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks but Sri Lanka’s defense minister, Ruwan Wijewardene, said the... 

Terrorist attacks against Muslims in the Western world, like the one that took place in Christchurch, are extremely rare. Friday’s carnage in two mosques in New Zealand, with the death toll currently at 50, is the first major event of its kind since the Quebec City mosque shooting over two years ago – which killed six persons, conservative writer Srdja Trifkovic states in Chronicles Magazine. Nonetheless,... 

An Italian bishop has said that he would be willing to see an end to Christianity and the dominion of Islam if it meant saving migrants’ lives, Italian media reported Monday. “Morally and as a man of faith I would be willing to turn all churches into mosques if it were useful to the cause and if it helped to save the lives of poor and unhappy men and women, because Christ did not come to earth... 

The bulldozer goes into action, moves inexorably and hits with the hardness of steel the wall of the church of Saint Lambert, a small Catholic temple in the town of Immerath in North Rhine-Westphalia. In two days, the church has turned into a heap of rubble. In its place nothing but an empty space, which will serve to expand the nearby coal mine of Garzweiler. Some say it will be used for a new deposit,... 

What would you do if authorities ordered your church to stop feeding the homeless? And what would you do if your 5-year-old daughter was ordered to get government permission before setting up a lemonade stand? Well, these things are actually happening in America today. With each passing day, America goes further down the road toward becoming a police state. Just yesterday, I wrote about a young mother... 

Despite no known specific, credible threats, the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security have warned law enforcement agencies that sympathizers of jihadist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) could strike holiday events in the US. In a bulletin sent to US law enforcement and private security agencies, the FBI and DHS said individuals loyal to Islamic State “continue aspirational... 

Black South African “pastors” at some of the country’s largest African churches have been revealed as running “healing” ceremonies in which congregants are sprayed with insecticide, made to touch and eat live electric wires, eat stones, grass, rats—the latter of which they claim have been transformed into chocolate. The bizarre antics—taking place at churches attended by tens of thousands...