The Church of Scotland is appealing to the Home Office to allow a refugee from Sudan to bring her family to the UK. The Church says Kaltouma Haroun Ibrahim is a valued member of the community at Gorba...
Charismatic minister and founder of the International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC), Mike Bickle, has admitted to “inappropriate behaviour” and “moral failures” more than 20 years ago. But he s...
An English Heritage historian is challenging what we think we know about Christmas carols. Dr Michael Carter says many carols actually started out with very different tunes or no tune at all. Reveller...
The Christian charity Tearfund is urging Christians in the UK to be inspired into action after the COP summit in Dubai, where for the first time ever, language about reducing fossil fuels has been inc...
Anglicans with traditional views on marriage say they are saddened by the Church of England’s decision to offer blessings for same sex couples in church from this Sunday. It follows a vote yesterday b...
Pope Francis, who has shunned much of the Vatican's pomp and privilege, has decided to vastly simplify the elaborate funeral rites for a pontiff and be the first one to be buried outside the Vatic...
A small part of a dead person's cremated ashes may be stored in a place that was dear to them rather than in a church or cemetery, the Vatican said on Tuesday, softening its previous stance on the...
The Church of England has announced that blessings for same-sex couples can take place within existing church services from this Sunday, 17 December. Yesterday afternoon the House of Bishops voted by ...
Five years after a government crackdown in China saw over 100 members of the Early Rain Church arrested in Sichuan Province, authorities have prevented leaders and members from taking part in an onlin...
A teacher has been found dead at a church in London where his pupils had performed their nativity just hours earlier. The man's body was discovered at St Matthew's church in Bayswater at just ...
The only Catholic church in Gaza has been damaged in an attack. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has confirmed to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that shrapnel from Israeli army st...
Bethlehem is normally at its busiest at Christmas but this year war has scared away tourists and pilgrims from the Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, leaving hotels, restaurants and s...
Reports from India say 42 Christians were arrested and interrogated by police at the end of November in the country's most populated state. Anti-conversion laws in the state of Uttar Pradesh have ...
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York say they 'deeply regret' flaws in the design and governance of the Church of England’s Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB). The body was disbanded earli...
American pastor, author and broadcaster Dr Tony Evans has married his fiancée, three months after announcing their engagement. Dr Evans, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, in Dallas, Texas, ...
A Catholic priest has been killed after being stabbed at his church rectory in the United States. 65 year old Fr Stephen Gutgsell called the police at around 5am at the weekend and told police that so...
Sudan's army said on Sunday several staff from the International Committee of the Red Cross were injured when their convoy came under fire as they were evacuating civilians including foreign natio...
A US evangelist who was shot while promoting a special service outside his church last month has been moved out of the intensive care unit but remains in a "delicate condition". Hans Schmidt was shot ...
The bishop who delivered the sermon at Prince Harry and Meghan's wedding, Bishop Michael Curry, has been discharged from hospital following brain surgery on 4th December. The 70-year-old experienc...
A church in Bethlehem has caught the headlines after placing a baby Jesus among rubble in their nativity scene, representing the devastation of the current Israel-Hamas war. The Evangelical Lutheran C...
