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Police slow to respond to alleged forcible conversion, marriage.

An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the years before Islam spread across the Arabian Peninsula has been discovered on an island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, officials announced Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is not changing the norms at a contested site in Jerusalem to allow Jewish prayer there, his office said Monday, walking back comments that sparked angry reactions a day earlier.

Neha is among a growing number of underage girls from minority families in Pakistan who are kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam via marriage to older Muslim men.

Nadeem Joseph, one of several Pakistani Christians shot in early June for living in a Muslim neighborhood, has succumbed to his wounds.

For Christians, we cannot let ourselves be sucked into fear. It is contrary, even antithetical, to whom Jesus has called us to be in the world, no matter how much we disagree with Islam, or any other religion for that matter.

In a gesture of religious tolerance, Saji Cheriyan built a mosque after watching his workers take taxis to one several miles away.

Evangelism can be difficult and dangerous for Christians in the Middle East, but Christian ministries are finding a new way to deliver the gospel. And people there are responding.