France's top bishop said on Tuesday that the secrecy of the confession should not take precedence over French laws on sex crimes against children, reversing his previous position after he was summ...
Three seminary students have been kidnapped from their college chapel in Nigeria's Kaduna state. The fourth-year theology students were attacked at Christ the King Major Seminary on Monday. A furt...
Worshippers at a church in East Yorkshire discovered that their bell had been stolen when it failed to ring for a Sunday service. Rev Martin Faulkner said thieves ransacked St Matthew&...
Author and broadcaster Chine McDonald has been named as the new director of the Christian think tank 'Theos'. McDonald's former roles include Director of Communications at the Evangelical ...
A striking new piece of public artwork has been unveiled at a Glasgow Church. One of the walls at St Rollox Church in Sighthill has been adorned with 77 crosses fashioned out of concrete. Entitled ...
The church led by pastor Joel Osteen is set to pay back $4.4 million (£3.2 million) in loans from the federal government. The loans were issued as part of the Paycheck Protection Prog...
The Dean of York, Rt Rev Dr Jonathan Frost, has been appointed as the new Bishop of Portsmouth succeeding Rt Rev Christopher Foster, who retired in May. The Queen has officially approved his nominatio...
A Church of England parish has decided to change its original name, St Michael's, to St Mike's Church in order to attract younger generations. Speaking to Premier, the church's lead vicar,...
France's top bishop has been summoned by the interior minister after saying that the pact of secrecy would prevent a priest from reporting sex crimes against children that were revealed during Cat...
A vicar from the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham has been prohibited from ministry for six months after pleading guilty to unprofessional conduct with a vulnerable woman. In 2019, the victim repor...
French clergy have sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years, a major investigation released on Tuesday found, and its authors accused the Catholic Church of turning a blind ey...
Brian Houston will plead not guilty to covering up his father's abuse, his lawyer has said. The founding leader of Hillsong Church was charged in August in relation to the rep...
A minister has run a marathon across two Scottish parishes, stopping to speak at three churches on the issue of mental health. Rev James Bissett has plotted a 26.2 mile route across the Contin an...
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland is holding its first general assembly meeting for over two years. Around 450 ministers and elders from congregations across Northern Ireland and the Republic of...
The French Catholic Church has had an estimated 3,000 paedophiles in its ranks over the past 70 years, the head of an independent commission investigating the sex abuse scandal sai...
The Catholic Church in Scotland has announced it's setting up an independent watchdog to deal with abuse complaints against members of the clergy. The move follows a number of sex scandals where t...
The Bishop of Coventry has received one of Germany's highest awards in recognition of his peace and reconciliation work. The Right Reverend Dr Christopher Cocksworth was presented with the C...
The Church of England has analysed data from more than 12,000 churches to find out about worship trends during the pandemic. Many churches offered online services at the height of the lockdowns ...
Leading human rights lawyers have called for a swift ban on so-called conversion therapy - practices which seek to suppress or change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Earl...
An 82 year old priest has this weekend started walking the final ten half marathons of his epic challenge of completing 52 laps of an athletics track 83 times over the coming year. Prof Monsignor Vlad...
