Fewer than 1 percent of missionaries end up among the world's least-Christian peoples. New categories aim to highlight the areas most desperate for the gospel.

The short-term outlook appears grim, says scholar Daniel Philpott, but there are grounds for hope.

A writer goes in search of the young Coptic Christian men executed on film by ISIS.

But more than a third incorrectly believe Christians suffer less than half of world’s religious freedom violations.

Is this a case of government oppression or the Chinese church coming into its own? How to understand “sinicization.”

Ajith Fernando lays out the essentials of cross-cultural discipleship.

Tutsi widows and orphans felt betrayed by the church during the genocide. Survivor Denise Uwimana made it her mission to help them heal.

Pastors report the congregational gains of letting loose as a body.

Some revere Jim Elliot and his friends as martyrs. Others revile them as oppressors. Both sides have an incomplete picture.

More and more, says scholar Monique Ingalls, it permeates nearly every sphere of evangelical life.