A 2012 report by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reveals that Christianity is growing at a rate of 1.3 percent annually in the Holy Land. Clerics, however, recently expressed a concern about the life challenges faced by the Christian population there.
Seventeen years have elapsed since the Coptic Church first requested permission to build a church in the town of Nubaria, Northern Egypt. On June 7 their prayer was granted. But not everyone is lining up to thank President Mohamed Morsi for passing the first decree of its kind during his tenure.
Secretary of State John Kerry released the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 2012 today, Monday, May 20, 2013, at 11:30 a.m. in the State Department Press Briefing Room.
Pope Francis on Wednesday told leaders of women’s orders from around the world to be “fertile” spiritual mothers in the Catholic Church, not “spinsters.”
The number of people attending Sunday services at Britain’s Anglican churches is continuing to drop, but church officials say there are signs that the decline is starting to stabilize.
Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) President Mark Tooley was honored to co-host today’s Christian Israel Solidarity Event at the Israel Embassy in Washington, D.C. Other members of the host committee included Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Mat Staver of Liberty University, Gary Bauer of American Values, and Susan Michael of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, among others.
