The Archbishop of Westminster Most Rev Richard Moth has joined the President of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, Bishop John Keenan and other senior church leaders to call on the UN and internatio...
A pastor in Vietnam has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, raising serious concerns for religious freedom advocates. Pastor Y Nuen Ayun, 59, was convicted by the People's Court of...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has detained a "beloved" Springfield pastor Thursday morning, according to a local faith-based organization. G92, which advocates for their immigrant neighbors, sai...
A Christian heavy metal band is suing Netflix, over a name shared with a fictional KPop band: “Demon Hunters”. KPop Demon Hunters is a film set in a fictionalised version of the Korean pop industry. I...
Church leaders in Scotland have welcomed an announcement that £1 million will be made available to cover the cost of repairs to the country’s listed faith buildings. The Scotland Places of Worship Fun...
A former Ukrainian Catholic priest has been charged with stealing more than $740,000 (£550,000) from churches, a Catholic organisation and his own mother. Gregory Allen Madeya, 69, was arrested in Flo...
The Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen has made an eleventh-hour appeal to the Home Secretary to be allowed to enter the UK in order to speak at a religious freedom conference on Friday. The Christ...
A group of Texas parents, including a Flour Bluff parent, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge of Texas' law that requires classrooms to display posters of the Ten Commandments. Th...
A Jacksonville minister has pleaded guilty to wire fraud after two of his congregants said he told them how to bilk pandemic-era government aid programs. “Are you pleading guilty because you are guilt...
Tennis star Novak Djokovic attended a Serbian Orthodox church service in Cincinnati just a day after suffering a surprise defeat at the Cincinnati Open. The 24-time Grand Slam champion attended Divine...
Twelve people have died after a bus carrying Polish pilgrims overturned in northern Hungary. The bus was carrying 57 passengers and two drivers when it left the M3 motorway near the town of Mezőkeresz...
More than four in five pastors in the United States have considered leaving pastoral ministry in the past five years, according to a new survey. The Culture Resurrection Index, which surveyed 1,000 pa...
An evangelical church in Iowa has reported a 60 per cent rise in attendance since 2022, with its lead pastor saying young adults are increasingly open to Christianity and the gospel. Around 4,000 adul...
A 182-ft statue of the Virgin Mary believed to be the tallest depiction of Mary in Europe has been revealed in the rural Polish village of Konotopie. Hundreds of people attended the consecration cerem...
A plan to create a 21-church benefice in Cornwall has been approved by the Church Commissioners, despite significant opposition. The so-called ‘mega benefice’ will unite six existing benefices in Kerr...
A man who murdered an Arizona pastor and planned to kill other Christian leaders across the United States has been sentenced to life in prison. Adam Sheafe was given a natural life sentence plus an ad...
Pups have received blessings in Bolivia, as the nation celebrated the patron saint of dogs. The Metropolitan Cathedral in La Paz joined in the tradition this year, putting on a first-of-its-kind cere...
The Church of Ireland will not have to contribute towards a €90,000 (£78,000) settlement awarded to a child who was left with facial scars after falling into a bramble at a church-owned centre in Dubl...
Geoff Drew, the former Catholic priest convicted of raping a student more than three decades ago, is returning home to Cincinnati after five years in prison. Drew, 64, is scheduled to be released Mond...
Armenia has begun a trial of the head of its ancient Apostolic Church and six senior clerics for disobeying a state order, the latest move in a standoff with the government which accuses the church le...
