On 25 September 1392, Sergius of Radonezh died at the monastery that had grown from his small forest hermitage and helped inspire a major monastic renewal.
A pastor and several workers from a large unregistered church in northern China have reportedly been moved from administrative into criminal detention.
On 24 September 787, bishops gathered at Nicaea to address the iconoclast controversy after soldiers had broken up an earlier attempt to hold the council.
Archaeologists beneath Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre have found evidence of ancient cultivated ground alongside rock-cut tombs.
On 23 September 1122, the Concordat of Worms ended the main phase of a decades-long struggle over who held authority to appoint bishops and abbots.
A Christian evangelism campaign in Madagascar concluded with 566 baptisms after an outreach that also provided healthcare to more than 9,000 people.
On 22 September 1734, Schwenkfelder Christians reached Philadelphia after fleeing religious persecution in Europe and crossing the Atlantic.
The Presbyterian Church in America has called churches, campus ministries, officers and members to fast and pray for revival and renewal during September.
A Baptist pastor and church worker were killed while travelling to Sunday worship during fresh attacks in Nigeria’s Plateau State.
Biltmore Church in North Carolina baptised 458 people in a single outdoor service, the largest one-day total in the church’s 137-year history.