The Church of England has clarified remarks made by the Bishop of Leeds over Ukraine giving up territory to get a ceasefire. In a discussion paper on Ukraine written for next month’s meeting of the Ch...
Suspects have been arrested in connection with the Owo church shooting that saw at least 40 people killed in the Ondo State of Nigeria. The attack took place at the St Francis Church at around 11.30a...
Tearfund is supporting a group of young African climate activists and religious leaders  who are raising the issue of climate finance to their country delegations this week at the Commonwealth Heads o...
The bodies of two Jesuit priests and a tour guide shot dead this week in a gang-ravaged area of northern Mexico were found on Wednesday after a major search, authorities said. The three were killed on...
Mexican authorities said on Tuesday that they are searching for the bodies of three people, including two Jesuit priests, as well as four people who were kidnapped in a violent stretch of northern Mex...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has taken to social media to urge Christians to pray for the situation in eastern Congo. The country is undergoing a resurgence of violence prompting more than 30,000 peop...
Tearfund has encouraged Christians to pray for millions of people impacted by historic flooding in parts of South Asia. Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officia...
The pope has urged couples to refrain from sexual intercourse before marriage in a new document released by the Vatican. The document gives couples advice regarding romantic relationships within the ...
Lithuanian bishops have called on politicians to vote down proposed same-sex partnership legislation, quoting words used by Pope Francis to argue that civil unions distort the concept of marriage and ...
Pope Francis has accepted a request by a Belgian bishop to not be made a cardinal because it might hurt the feelings of victims of sexual abuse, the Belgian bishops conference said on Thursday. The co...
Christian Aid has warned of a global humanitarian crisis as the war in Ukraine continues to affect global food and energy prices.   The international development charity has published a report warnin...
Christians are being deliberately driven from their homes in certain regions of the world, according to the charity Open Doors. Its new report, called 'Church on the Run', says that government...
The Vatican, in an apparent attempt to boost the confidence of the faithful in how their charitable contributions to the pope are used, on Thursday issued the first detailed disclosure of his main fun...
Three people have been killed in attacks on two churches in Nigeria. Gunmen on motorcycles attacked worshippers during a service at the Maranatha Baptist Church and St Moses Catholic Church at Kajuru...
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 name the 84-yea...
Christian humanitarian aid charity World Vision is calling for a fair appeal for its former Gaza director after he was convicted by an Israeli court on terrorism and fraud charges. On Wednesday, a co...
The leaders of the U.S Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) are urging U.S politicians to denounce what they are calling an "alarming rate" in the rise of vandalism against Catholic churches and pro...
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 Episcopal ...
Esteban Zambrano, a Chilean missionary working in Haiti since 2011, has been kidnapped. The 32-year-old was abducted in Port-au-Prince earlier this month by two armed men while driving with his daught...
