The Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church has become the best-selling Catholic book in the world.

The catechism has sold 1.7 million copies. It takes the content of the Catholic Church and makes it more accessible to young people.

Crossroad Bible Institute announced recently the launch of two new satellite campuses in Malawi in the midst of the recent unrest following the president’s death. Of seventeen CBI satellites now operating internationally, seven are located in Africa.

Open Doors, an international Christian ministry which serves persecuted believers, is mobilizing Christians around the world to participate in a day of prayer Sunday for North Korea.

On Saturday an international coalition of one million Christians around the world will pray for children aged 4 to 14 during Global 4/14 Day.

At a time when only 60 percent of Christians believe that the devil exists, “Suing the Devil” became the best-selling faith-based movie in the nation on Christian Cinema.

In a rare victory, a Christian who sued the police in Lhasa, Tibet for criminally detaining him for a month, forcing him to write a guarantee before releasing him, and confiscating church and personal items won compensation in an out-of-court settlement on Thursday.

  BIRMINGHAM, April 6, 2012 / Christian Newswire / – Less than 24 hours after pro-life groups, including Operation Rescue and CEC for Life, publicly called for the Alabama Department of Public Health to close the troubled New Women All Women (NWAW) abortion clinic, the ADPH issued a press release today stating that the clinic has been ordered to surrender its license on or before May 18, 2012.   “This is such great news on this Good Friday and goes to show what men and women of faith can accomplish when they work together toward a common goal. We congratulate CEC for Life, which worked long and hard to bring an end to the abortion abuses at that notoriously dangerous abortion clinic,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation.

A new survey conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute reveals that nearly 40 percent of Americans believe their religious freedom is under attack. Of the 39 percent who think their religious freedoms are under attack, 23 percent said they felt that way because they thought religion was being removed from the public square; 20 [...]

According to a new report on religion and international migration, Christians comprise nearly half of the world’s 214 million international migrants. The report, Faith on the Move: The Religious Affiliation of International Migrants, is a project of the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life. Key findings about Christian migrants from Faith on [...]

The Covenant Values Foundation announced recently that it plans to give $1 billion in grants to worthy causes. “Our goal is to give one billion dollars in grants to support people in need,” said Carey Brown, one of the foundation’s trustees. “Through this monumental pledge, which can only be made with God’s participation, we commit [...]