The Christian Century

Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis has statues of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph behind a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire.

Nationalism and anti-immigrant movements have gained ground.

Dahouk al-Omar has been hoping to be reunited with a son in Chicago. Now it's uncertain whether that will ever be possible.

Law societies denied accreditation to the program at Trinity Western University, an evangelical school in British Columbia, citing its community covenant as discriminating against LGBTQ applicants. 

Only a few hundred women in the Netherlands wear face-covering veils, studies suggest.

Aisha and Vincent Anibueze, a Muslim and a Christian, have found ways to thrive despite violence in Maiduguri.

U.S. Catholic bishops called asylum a right-to-life issue that could carry "canonical penalties." And the attorney general's fellow United Methodists brought charges against him with the denomination.

The Episcopal Church in South Carolina has asked the state court to give it control of the 29 church properties in question.

Women were fully engaged in these protests, as demonstrators rejected past divisions such as between Islamist and secular groups.