Polycarp, known for his unwavering faith, was arrested around 155 CE and brought before the proconsul of Asia.

Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2—Tennessee’s death row—Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his ...

The late Rev. Charles A. Trentham, a popular yet controversial minister at Knoxville’s First Baptist Church who became a pastor to President Jimmy Carter in Washington, D.C., in 1977, is mentioned in ...

The evangelical NGO Open Doors, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, revealed the latest figures from its World Watch List of Christian persecution. Presented by General Director ...

Allies of the president are leveling attacks on religious groups, including Catholics and Lutherans, and questioning their ...

Molina’s findings were detailed in her report, Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?, which outlined extensive harassment of the Catholic Church and its members since 2018. Further reading ...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. Since 1950, we have faced multiple ...

I became an Anabaptist because of George W. Bush. Well, not so much Bush personally—though the former president’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were the context in which I began to grapple with ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Around the world, conflicts, repression, and persecution continue to cause human suffering on a tragic scale. In the headlines are the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. But there is one crisis ...

It’s usually gauche to take pictures in church. But at St. John’s, the Episcopal Church just across a sedate Lafayette Square from the White House, photography is inevitable at least once ...

Mr. Biden emphasized that he did not believe his family did anything wrong, but he feared political attacks by Donald J. Trump. By Michael D. Shear Reporting from Washington President Biden ...