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...
The Church of Ireland is to complete its divestment from companies that extract fossil fuels by the end of this year, fulfilling a commitment made in 2018. Several church groups and individual c...
The Bishop of London has told Premier she's sorry after concerns were made by clergy over the Diocese of London's handling of safeguarding. In an interview with Premier earlier this week, nort...
A Church of England priest has resigned from a clergy safeguarding support role in the Diocese of London saying safeguarding policy in the Church over the last two years has created more victims. Fath...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 shook Greece's largest island, Crete, on Monday morning, killing one person and injuring several, authorities said. The tremor sent people fleeing out of home...
The first black female deacon in the Church of England is considering an appeal on the grounds of racism following a decision to dissolve her parish. Reverend Yvonne Clarke, was ordained as a deacon i...
Pope Francis on Wednesday praised youth climate campaigners for their efforts to tackle global warming and encouraged them to carry on with their work "for the good of humanity". Thous...
