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The officially atheist Chinese government on Monday requested religious groups and people of faith help with the rebuilding efforts in a northwest province devastated by a massive earthquake.

Ahead of the National Day of Prayer, Franklin Graham expressed dismay at how Islam is receiving preferential treatment by the Obama administration.

President Obama is hurting persecuted Christians worldwide by failing to speak up for them, says a well-known convert who lives under police protection in Europe.

Every year the issue of religious freedom is becoming less important to the White House and State Department, a bipartisan U.S. government panel complained in its annual report on Thursday.

The granddaughter of a mullah weighed in on the Franklin Graham controversy this week, contending that there is a difference between criticizing Islam and Muslims.

Less than a week after Franklin Graham was disinvited from the Pentagon prayer event, the evangelist faces another attempt to remove him from a National Day of Prayer observation.

“We are the first generation in all of human history to hold within our hands the technology to reach every man, woman and child on the earth by 2020,” said Walt Wilson, founder and CEO of Global Media Outreach, during the recent iSummit at Biola University. “Our generation has within its grasp everything that is required to fulfill the Great Commission.”

An array of evangelical leaders, including megachurch pastors and college presidents, are not only supporting the Obama administration’s push to reduce nuclear weapons, but are calling for the U.S. government to exert even more effort to negotiate with hard-to-deal-with rogue states.

Evangelical leaders say the nuclear arms reduction treaty signed by President Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on Thursday will increase the chances of world peace.

President Obama hosted an Easter prayer breakfast Tuesday morning that was attended by prominent Christian leaders from across the nation.

President Obama sent an Easter greeting Saturday that focused heavily on what people of all faiths have in common.

Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was confirmed alive Sunday after more than a year without reliable information on his whereabouts.

The first large-scale evangelistic festival since the massive earthquake devastated Haiti earlier this year will be held Friday amid the rubbles of Port-au-Prince.

WASHINGTON – American flags were everywhere – flying in the air, worn as bandanas, held by children – as more than 200,000 people thronged the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Sunday to rally for comprehensive immigration reform.

Revival is not about a large crowd but it is about broken people who want to get right with God, said the Baptist pastor whose church made the hit films “Facing the Giants” and “Fireproof.”

American evangelist Luis Palau met with more than 500 pastors in communist Vietnam last week.

Christian organizations are widely thought to be slow in adopting new technology and innovations. But there are a number today that are breaking the stereotype and catching on more quickly to what the secular marketplace has embraced.

American evangelist Luis Palau will preach to an overflow crowd of up to 20,000 people at a megachurch in mainland China this month. Registered church Chong Yi in the eastern city of Hangzhou will host the evangelist for the March 20 event.

A global ecumenical body welcomed “with great hope and deep satisfaction” news that diverse church leaders in Iraq have established a council to speak with a common voice.

The launch of giant balloons with messages about human rights, a screening of a documentary about North Korea’s humanitarian situation, and other events around the world will take place Tuesday to call for freedom in North Korea as its “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il marks his 68th birthday.

The murder of two young street preachers in Florida by a teenager whom they shared the Gospel with is “alarming,” said a spokesperson for a religious freedom watchdog group.

Geoff Tunnicliffe, international director of the World Evangelical Alliance, spoke to The Christian Post this week while in Washington, D.C., to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, among other events. During the interview, Tunnicliffe addressed the controversy surrounding the WEA’s recent visit to China, the group’s role in the upcoming Lausanne conference, and what its members are doing to help Haiti.

WASHINGTON – President Obama called for civility in the public square and said prayer can help people become more humble, during his address at the National Prayer Breakfast.

WASHINGTON – The head of the World Evangelical Alliance sought Tuesday to address concerns raised by Chinese house churches upset over his organization’s decision to not visit or even mention them during a recent trip to China.

A newly formed group of evangelicals led by some well-known figures called for the cancellation of Haiti’s foreign debt on Friday.