Church leaders have welcomed permission for communal worship under England's new lockdown, but some have urged people to take "tremendous care" and advised those shielding to stay at hom...
Greece's powerful Orthodox Church is rebelling against a government order to briefly close places of worship under a week-long drive to tighten virus restrictions before the planned reopening of s...
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced that all places of worship will be banned from hosting physical gatherings for the whole of January as part of a national lockdown. The only in person serv...
At least 44 people have tested positive for Covid-19 after attending church services over Christmas at a church in Massachusetts. The church held two gatherings on 23rd December and another two on Chr...
A man has been arrested for attempting to set fire to a church in Maine three times last month. The church was also attacked a few days after Christmas, this time successfully, causing damage to the b...
Police are trying to identify the “reckless” organiser of an unlicensed music event on New Year’s Eve during in which hundreds of revellers trashed a 500-year-old church in Essex. Me...
The Australian health service in the state of New South Wales, where the megachurch Hillsong is based, has issued a Covid alert to anyone who visited the campus for 45 minutes on Tuesday. The founder ...
Three people have been arrested after an unlicensed music event on New Year’s Eve during which hundreds of revellers trashed a 500-year-old redundant church in Essex. Members of the conservation...
Pope Francis has appointed the Most Reverend Dr Dermot Farrell as the new Archbishop of Dublin. Archbishop-elect Farrell, who was formerly the Bishop of Ossory, replaces the Most Reverend Ar...
The Scottish Catholic Church is warning against home abortions. As a result of the covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish government had allowed women to terminate their pregnancy at home with two pills if i...
A church in Kent is taking legal action against the Ministry of Justice as reports emerged of children being mistreated at Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre near Rugby. The centre holds children...
The Christian organisation Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) has admitted that its founder did engage in sexual misconduct and that a full review of his behaviour will be published e...
A church in Derbyshire that was devastated by fire earlier this month will be restored, the church’s insurance company Ecclesiastical has announced. A blaze swept through the 700-year-old...
People are making a greater effort to reach out to others this Christmas despite not being able to celebrate in the usual way, a church minister has said. Morningside Parish Church in Edinburgh will n...
With cases of coronavirus continuing to rise in Wales, churchgoers are being warned over the dangers of visiting a place of worship this Christmas. The country has entered a new lockdown following the...
Former Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu will re-enter the House of Lords after being nominated for a life peerage. There had been criticism of the government for not automatically allowing him to co...
The Vatican has urged Catholics to get vaccinated against coronavirus. There's some concern among Catholics about the vaccine due to cells from decades-old aborted foetuses being used by some rese...
David Pawson British Bible teacher and author David Pawson died at the age of 90 after battling a number of health conditions. During his career, he authored 81 books and produced over 300 teaching vi...
Prominent megachurch pastor Jentezen Franklin has tested positive for Covid-19 just days after attending a Christmas party at the White House. Franklin, the pastor of Free Chapel church in Gainsville,...
Leicester Cathedral's choir has been able to perform together for the first time since the pandemic. It comes after the University of Loughborough donated spare covd-19 tests left over from the ma...
