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Middle East journalist, Mary Abdelmassih, has told the ASSIST News Service (ANS) that since Sunday, July 25, 2010, some 75 clergy and nearly 150,000 Copts from parishes all over the Diocese of Maghagha and Edwah have staged a sit-in...

Troy Love is a man on a mission. Just a few hours ago he left the Golden Gate Bridge and began riding his bicycle east through San Francisco.

Following news that an Evangelical church in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, was robbed three weeks ago and a church member badly beaten by the assailants, comes news that six other churches in the city have since been attacked.

In a pre-planned and coordinated effort by government security forces, a group of new Christian believers were rounded up and arrested in a northern province of Iran.

Thousands of Christians from Gojra and across Pakistan have marked first anniversary of Gojra violence when many Christians were burned alive by Muslim radicals.

Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has called on Nigerian religious leaders “not to relent” in “praying for the peace of the country.”

For South African activist and gospel singer, Musa Njoko, it was first stop Guyana, next stop Barbados, as she brought her powerful testimony to the Caribbean as the first Zulu gospel singer to ever minister in the region.

Rich Buhler, who is known as the “Dean of Christian Talk Radio,” has been diagnosed with an inoperable “mass on his pancreas.”

Simon Wiesenthal Center has joined many in the Evangelical Christian community in condemning a Gainsville, Florida church, the Dove World Outreach Center, for planning an “International Burn a Koran Day” this September 11, “in remembrance of the...

The police have told a Gospel for Asia-supported missionary to remove the cross and nameplate from his church building. If he does not comply, the local authorities said they would remove the items themselves.

Initiated in 2005, the Kairos Prizes seeks to further the influence of moral and spiritual values within the film and television industries.

The Canberra Declaration, the Australian version of the 2009 Manhattan Declaration in the United States and the 2010 Westminster Declaration in the UK, was launched in the Australian Commonwealth Parliament in the capital city of Canberra on Fri...

Human trafficking is one of those realities in which, the more you scratch the surface, the more you learn things that make you feel overwhelmed. We want to help, to do something. But where do we start? Will anything we do make any differe...

A group of Hindu radicals attacked a Christian evangelist and a believer traveling with him during a ministry visit on Tuesday, July 20, 2010, at Balaghat village in Madhya Pradesh State, India.

At least three Muslim men have allegedly gang raped a sixteen-year-old Pakistani Christian girl on the night between July 20, 2010 and July 21, 2010 in Farooqabad, a small town in the Punjab province of Pakistan, ANS has learned.

Within a two day period the Lord invaded my life with the reality of who He is and reset my future. I had lived for 21 years, led by my mind and my heart; therefore, carousing from one drama to the next and practicing a form of discernment that...

International journalist, Dan Wooding, 69, who is the founder of the ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net), has just released his 44th book -- which happens to be his first novel.

Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that a dozen masked men shot five Christians to death as they came out of their church building in Sukkur, Pakistan, on Thursday, July 15, 2010, two months after a banned Islamic extremist group sent church...

Words can either bless or curse. They should mean what the dictionary says they mean, but people often redefine them.

In a small Asian border town, a team of staff and students from a local Bible college conducted a Vacation Bible School in a local believer’s home. The children were so happy that team brought VBS to them. The VBS kicked off with prayer and sing...

He grew up in a Christian family in Romania before the 1989 revolution, which meant he could not talk freely in his own home. After the communists fell, some thought heaven might even come to earth, but those thoughts have been tempered by reality.

Two Americans, one Austrian and a Pakistani Christian airhostess, identified as Naheed Bhatti, 27, where among the dead today (Wednesday, July 28, 2010), when an Airblue Airbus-320 plane crashed near to Benazir Bhutto International Airport...

Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land often overlook the presence of local Christians, who have worshipped at the holy places since Christianity began, according to the director of a new website on the Holy Land.

Plans to set up atheist schools in the United Kingdom could soon be given the green light by the British government.

Global Tribe and One5 Foundation have announced the merger of their two organizations, forming Global Tribe Partners, with offices in New Zealand, Nashville, and Kansas City.