A priest in Cardiff is using food to combat loneliness and isolation in his community. Fr Dean Atkins from St Mary’s Church, Butetown has organised an event dubbed The Day of the Soup, which inv...
Pope Francis gave a funeral blessing to Cardinal George Pell on Saturday as revelations that he wrote an anonymous memo branding the current papacy a "catastrophe" hung in the air along with...
A seven-year-old girl was left with life-threatening injuries after she and five others, including another child, were hurt in a drive-by shooting on Saturday near a church in London w...
A church in China is now without a building after authorities secretly demolished it at night. According to Christian persecution watchdog, China Aid, Ruin County government in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang ...
US President Joe Biden will be the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday sermon at Martin Luther King Jr.'s church in Atlanta, as he marks a national holiday celebrating the c...
The leader of Sri Lanka's Catholic Church has commended a Supreme Court decision to order the former president and four officials to pay compensation for the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that ...
A Church of England working party is to consider whether the Seal of the Confessional, which maintains confidential disclosures made to a priest during sacramental confession, should be amended, uphel...
The Church of England has released a new report on the well-being of its clergy. The report found the well-being of the clergy has declined since 2019, with lockdowns aggravating pre-existing pressure...
NHS workers are turning to hospital chaplains to support them as they struggle with the impact of staff shortages, Winter illnesses and the cost of living crisis. The mental health charity Doctor...
A former Premier League footballer who was found guilty of causing a London church and others to lose at total of £15m has been sentenced to seven and half years in prison. Last month, ex-Charlt...
Colourful images and sounds will be filling Birmingham Cathedral for three days to tell the story of its stained glass windows. A light show produced by Luxmuralis, will share the historic detail...
The Catholic Church in Scotland is calling on people to prioritise giving to the church over things like Netflix subscriptions and football matches. It comes as the church says it's facing a perfe...
A Scottish bishop has appealed to Amazon to reconsider its plan to close down a local warehouse, which could result in job losses. Last week, the online retail giant said it opened a consultation to c...
Pope Francis on Wednesday praised late Australian Cardinal George Pell for persevering in trying times, a reference to when he spent more than a year in prison on child sexual abuse accusati...
The Bishop of Worcester has written an open letter to his diocese detailing why he thinks same-sex unions should be celebrated by the Church. It comes after a number Church of England bishops declared...
The appointment of the new Bishop of Blackburn has been met with some controversy within the Church due to his views on female ordination, with some groups calling it "deplorable". Rt R...
A prominent Catholic bishop in Nicaragua who has sharply criticized authoritarian President Daniel Ortega will go to trial while under house arrest, a judge ruled on Tuesday, in the latest clamp down ...
Australian Cardinal George Pell, a leading Roman Catholic conservative and former top Vatican official who in 2020 was acquitted of sexual abuse allegations, died on Tuesday at the age of 81, his...
Downing Street has announced Rt Rev Philip North as the next Bishop of Blackburn. He will succeed Rt Rev Julian Henderson following his retirement last year. Rev Philip, who has been the bishop of Bur...
Police have dropped charges against Symon Hill, a left-wing Christian author and activist who made anti-monarchist comments during King Charles’ proclamation in Oxford. According to Hill, he onl...
