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Pope Francis has denounced the use of new technologies to change gender, saying this "utopia of the neutral" risks the creation of new life.

Following the deadliest mass shooting in United States history, Pope Francis on Oct. 2 has sent a message expressing closeness and concern for the victims and their families, and entrusting the dead "to the merciful love of almighty God."

For last ten years, Harmony Bible Church in Danville, Calif., has been raising funds to provide clean water to people in Ethiopia, Haiti, Chad, Sierra Leone, the Philippines, Pakistan and Congo.

A campaign took place outside the headquarters of United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC), Geneva, condemning attacks against Christians, Dalits and indigenous people by Hindu radical groups, demanding privileges for these groups and also bringing India's deprived human rights record and treatment of its oppressed minorities to light.

Nabeel Qureshi, an author and apologist who wrote about his conversion from Islam to Christianity in several best-selling books, has passed away on Sept. 16 after a yearlong battle with stomach cancer.

The founder of International Cooperating Ministries (ICM), Dois Rosser, has built his 7,000th church, a big accomplishment for a nonprofit.

China on Sept. 7 has passed new regulations on religious freedom to strengthen national security, fight extremism and restrict religions seen as internal threats.

Health experts have reported an outbreak of diarrhoea, malaria and dengue in Bangladesh and Nepal as the worst flood waters recede.

The president of Nepal is likely to approve a bill that will criminalize any attempt to convert someone to a different faith, besides "hurting of religious sentiment".

Finland has reportedly seen a flood of conversions from Islam to Christianity, with hundreds of asylum seekers from the Middle East turning to the Christian faith, officials in the Evangelical Lutheran community said.

An Ethiopian Christian man suffered deep wounds to the back of his head when he was attacked by a group of local Muslims with machetes while at home alone because he had been evangelising, according to World Watch Monitor (WWM).

In a letter to the editor, 'A new way to see the United States', which appeared in print last week, in The Tribune, Jim Conroy, wrote 'We aren't a 'Christian nation,' but we should all act more like Christ.'

One Muslim teenage boy had other things on his mind when he followed his crush to her Christian summer camp but rather than being kicked out, the camp teachers led him to Christ.

What have I done against you and our country that made you hate me this much? I have learned from the Bible to love my enemies and to pray for those who hate me. But what have you actually learned?

Five Christian civilians had hid themselves in a basement for three weeks to escape the guns of Islamic State (IS) fighters in Philippine city of Marawi before they fled for their lives.