Three people were killed as thousands packed St. Mark’s Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, to pay their respects to Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

The Syrian Orthodox Church alleges that militant armed Islamists have managed to expel 90 percent of Christians from Homs.

Pope Benedict XVI criticized Catholics who participate in the illegal drug trade or who ignore their moral responsibilities to seek social justice.

A little-publicized policy directive is getting a closer look from advocates of religious freedom and promoters of conscience protections.

All Christian churches on the Arabian Peninsula should be destroyed, said the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia.

Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos, Nigeria, called for calm after a suicide car bomb struck a Catholic church on March 11.