• LWF Head Urges Religious Leaders to Reject Islamophobia

  The head of the Lutheran World Federation urged religious leaders from around the world to renounce Islamophobia during a conference convened by the president of Kazakhstan.

• Chinese Christians Prepare to Mark 20th Tiananmen Square Anniversary

  As the 20th anniversary of the infamous Tiananmen Square massacre approaches, Chinese Christian leaders in America – many of whom were directly involved in the pro-democracy protest – are heading to Washington, D.C., to pray for a new era of hope and justice in communist China.

• 'We Are the Forgotten Church,' Say Palestinian Pastors

  The entire population of evangelical Christians in the West Bank and Gaza could fit into one large church in the United States, one pastor from Jerusalem realized after a recent visit to the U.S.

• Iran Frees U.S. Journalist After Successful Appeal

  American journalist Roxana Saberi was freed Monday from prison in Iran after an appeals court reduced her eight-year jail sentence to a two-year suspended sentence.

• China Debuts First Human Rights Action Plan

  China released its first ever human rights action plan Monday that contains actual benchmarks for improving the treatment of minorities and doing more to prevent abuse of detainees.