Two teenagers have made recent history by becoming elders in the Church of Scotland. 19-year-olds Erica Matteo and Luke Anderson were ordained at a special service in Sandyhills Parish Church, Baillie...
Pope Leo's lung cancer diagnosis and surgery has affected how Catholics view his health and papacy, the Vatican's foreign minister said on Tuesday, an unusually frank assessment by one of the ...
A Christian TV channel has been launched for believers in Afghanistan despite authoritarian Islamic Taliban rule restricting Christianity. Mozhda TV is the first Christian TV channel and began broadca...
Some of Christianity’s oldest communities face an increasingly uncertain future as millions of believers have been forced from their homes through conflict, extremism and authoritarian repression, acc...
Jordan said on Tuesday it had killed more than 20 Islamic State militants in airstrikes on southern Syria the previous evening, launched in response to a deadly church attack in Jordan that authoritie...
At least 60 people were killed in two separate attacks in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Oromiya region in the past week, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church said. Church authorities said the dead were all Chr...
A school district in the United States has agreed to publicly apologise, undergo religious liberty training and pay $275,000 (£206,000) after scrapping a policy requiring school students to hide Chris...
Jordanian security forces arrested two brothers and their brother-in-law after a shootout on Monday over a church attack that killed nine people, and the suspects appear to have no ties to other cells...
About 1,300 survivors of clergy sexual abuse have unanimously agreed to an $800 million (£599 million) settlement with the Archdiocese of New York, marking one of the largest payouts by a Catholic dio...
A Roman Catholic bishop who recently visited the White House says a trip by a group of bishops has been exploited for political purposes. Bishop William Joensen of the Diocese of Des Moines said in 24...
Hundreds of Jordanians have attended the funerals of nine Christians who were fatally shot during a church service last week. Today’s funeral took place at St George's Greek Orthodox church in Kar...
Southwell Minster is in danger of closing unless urgent funding for repairs is secured. The Minster's Dean, Very Rev Stephen Evans said “decades of underfunding” had left it facing repairs of more...
A division of the High Court in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh has launched a challenge to the state’s Freedom of Religion Act, which it's claimed has led to Christians being targeted and attack...
A man who became a Christian while studying physics at university has been appointed as the new suffragan Bishop of Jarrow. Rev Dr Jitesh Patel is currently Assistant Director and Lecturer in Theology...
A Christian medic in Pakistan has had his pharmacy, clinic and home set on fire after accusations he'd shared blasphemous content online. Kamran Gill was arrested on 8 October for allegedly sharin...
Pope Leo has been appointed as Papal Confrater of St George’s Chapel, Windsor in what's being seen as a "symbol of hope" for Christian unity. The appointment, which was made with the approval of K...
Church Mission Society (CMS) CEO Andy Roberts has called for a “radical realignment” of global mission, with greater shared leadership and a renewed focus on discipleship and overlooked communities. A...
Six young Christians in Egypt have been jailed for sharing a TikTok post that authorities deemed offensive to Islam. The men who are between the ages of 17 and 23, posted a video of themselves re-ena...
Church leaders in the Holy Land say an attack at a church in Jordan which killed at least seven people won’t succeed in driving Christians from the region. Around 40 people were injured when gunmen op...
Seven people were killed and 34 injured on Friday when gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a church in Jordan's Karak governorate, said the head of the country's Public Security Directorate...
