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...
The Church of England’s investment body has announced new funding to compensate for its slavery links. In an effort to “address past wrongs,” the Church Commissioners' Board will...
Pope Francis on Monday privately met Archbishop Georg Ganswein, former Pope Benedict's closest aide, who has rattled the Vatican with a book describing what he says were the strains...
A married priest, who admitted to "inappropriate conduct" with a female parishioner, has been excluded from ministry for five years. Rev Peter Lambert, a self-supporting Church of Engla...
Ukrainian families living in Devon held a special Christmas service at a church near Tavistock this weekend. The church of St Michael de Rupe in Brentor has significance for the local Ukrainian commun...
A prominent Christian lawyer is warning that a proposed ban on conversion therapy in Scotland would be unlawful. Aiden O’Neill QC – who represented Ashers Bakery during the infamous gay ca...
Pope Benedict has been laid to rest, with his funeral led by a successor for the first time in more than 200 years. Pope Francis led the funeral of the former pope, tenderly touching the coffin a...
A church judge has ruled that ‘X’ kiss symbols are “excessively casual and informal” for headstone messages. The Church of England’s Consistory Court judge Robert Hopkins...
Prominent US theologian John Piper was recently interrupted during a rousing sermon by his watch registering exuberant gestures as a fall. The award-winning author and pastor was preaching on Psa...
Tens of thousands more people paid homage to former Pope Benedict on Tuesday on the second day his body lay in state, and the Vatican announced that his funeral will be similar to that of a reigning p...
A non-binary vicar believes God “guided them” to come out following a revelation while reading the Old Testament. Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, Bingo Allison said it was Genesis 1:27 whi...
Hundreds of people have already flocked to Vatican City to pay their respects to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. The former Pope became the first Pontiff to resign in 600 years – he did so because o...
Several church leaders have been named in the 2023 New Year honours list; the first under the reign of King Charles III. The awards range from financial services to community work during the pandemic....
