A veteran missionary, a Venezuelan-born pastor and other individuals and organizations have joined forces to make a way station on a mountain pass for the Venezuelan “walkers” who are fleeing their country into Colombia.

11/01/2018 - By Grace Thornton / Baptist Press

Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear joined a diverse coalition in urging the Trump administration to label as genocide the brutalities against religious and ethnic minorities in Myanmar.

10/29/2018 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

The number of Christian refugees coming to the United States from the countries where Christians are most persecuted has dropped dramatically under President Trump’s administration.

10/19/2018 - By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service

On both sides of the Atlantic, a drama set in a bakery has pitted freedom of religion against LGBT civil rights, and Exhibit A has been a wedding cake.

10/15/2018 - By Catherine Pepinster / Religion News Service

A Turkish court freed Andrew Brunson, an American missionary who had been the subject of a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Turkey.

10/13/2018 - By Umar Farooq / Religion News Service

Christians and ethnic minorities are living a “nightmare” in China under President Xi Jinping, a congressional commission report released Oct. 10 documents.

10/12/2018 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Buckner Peru is sending nearly 11,000 meals to Peru and plans to send more than 1,000 new pairs of shoes to help children and families who have walked more than 15 hours as they’ve fled Venezuela.

10/10/2018 - By John Hall / Buckner International

Analysts worry killings of its leaders could convince the Islamic Movement of Nigeria to follow in the footsteps of Boko Haram, the militant group that has wrought havoc in Nigeria for years.

09/25/2018 - By Ali Abare Abubakar / Religion News Service

Ethnic Wa rebels this month shut down churches or destroyed their buildings and temporarily detained several clergymen in eastern Burma, also known as Myanmar, Morning Star News reported.

09/25/2018 - By Burma correspondent / Morning Star News

Gifts to the Texas Baptist Hunger Offering provide nutritionally enriched Manna Packs and water filters to families at the Buckner Family Hope Center in Lima, Peru. The center not only meets immediate physical needs, but also addresses severe spiritual poverty.

09/21/2018 - By Kalie Lowrie / Texas Baptist Communications

Christians are the victims of 80 percent of all acts of religious discrimination globally, but 80 percent of the Christians in the world have no direct contact with that persecution, according to research a University of Notre Dame professor presented at Baylor University.

09/19/2018 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

In his response to a Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing allegations of sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by Roman Catholic clergy, Pope Francis condemned the abuse as a crime and called the church to solidarity with its victims.

08/21/2018 - By Emily McFarlan Miller / Religion News Service