It’s been revealed that some asylum seekers arriving in the UK via “unnecessary and dangerous routes" could be electronically tagged by the government. A 12-month pilot scheme has sta...
A year-long national pilot scheme to help encourage online and contactless giving in churches across Cumbria has raised nearly £85,000. More than 100 churches across the Diocese of Carlisle, the...
A retired priest has been charged with indecent assault following a decade-long investigation into a residential school in Manitoba, Canadian police said on Friday. Arthur Masse, 92, was arrested and ...
A third person has died following a shooting during a senior's potluck dinner at a church near Birmingham, Alabama, police said Friday. The Vestavia Hills Police Department did not ...
The United Reformed Church is launching a new initiative to get more children into places of worship. The denomination is concerned about the dwindling number of young congregants, and is lookin...
A High Court has forced has a London church to shut down after it failed to fully show how it spent £1.87 million. The Insolvency Service announced on Friday that SPAC Nation, legally known...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has publically apologised for the Church of England investment fund’s connection to slavery. It comes after a three-year investigation by the Church Commissione...
Three people were shot, two fatally, inside a suburban Alabama church on Thursday evening, before a suspect was taken into custody, police said. The shooting happened at Saint Stephen's ...
The Primates of the Church of Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda have rejected the Archbishop of Canterbury’s latest invitation to attend the upcoming Lambeth Conference. In a letter, the three church l...
With applause and a few shouts of approval, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) on Wednesday voted to issue a formal apology to survivors of sex abuse, as the thousands of delegates gathered wound d...
Germany's top court ruled on Tuesday that an anti-Semitic, medieval sculpture can stay on the facade of a church in the eastern town of Wittenberg, rejecting an appeal by a Jewish plaint...
The Anglican Communion has announced a South Sudanese bishop will be its next Secretary General. Right Rev Anthony Poggo is currently the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Adviser on Anglican Communion...
Pope Francis has taken a new series of swipes at Russia for its actions in Ukraine, saying its troops were brutal, cruel and ferocious, while praising "brave" Ukrainians for fighting for sur...
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York say the government's decision to deport failed asylum seekers to Rwanda “shames Britain”. They're among 25 bishops who sit in the House of Lo...
Pope Francis' 2nd-7th July trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan has been indefinitely postponed because of the 85-year-old pontiff's knee ailment, the Vatican sai...
Tributes are being paid to the Catholic priest and anti-nuclear campaigner Bruce Kent who has died at the age of 92. Bruce Kent was the driving force behind the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) ...
Nigerian authorities suspect the insurgent group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) carried out a massacre in a Catholic church on Sunday in which 40 people were killed, Interior Minister Ogbe...
The Prince of Wales has attended a service of thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey as a Christian trust marks £100 million in charity donations. Ecclesiastical Insurance Group - recently rena...
The leader of Toronto-based Meeting House Church has been arrested and charged with one account of sexual assault. After 25 years of leading the church, Bruxy Cavey was forced to resign in March...
A Church of Scotland minister has been appointed as chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen. Rev Moira McDonald will formally join her Majesty's Household as a Chaplain-in-Ordinary today. The minister o...
