Global churches act on communal violence in India

The World Council of Churches (WCC) and the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) have jointly called on the Prime Minister of India requesting his intervention to end the violence in the state of Orissa. The WCC is also inviting its member churches and all Christians to...

UK government grants asylum to Nigerian gay Christian activist

Davis MacIyalla, director of the lesbian and gay rights group Changing Attitude Nigeria, has been granted asylum in the United Kingdom. Mr Davis has been subject to a range of attacks and death threats for his Christian work. MacIyalla fled Nigeria in 2006 following a...