French clergy have sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years, a major investigation released on Tuesday found, and its authors accused the Catholic Church of turning a blind ey...
A woman has been arrested after allegedly breaking into a church and setting fire to a cross. Anne-Marie Mullins is charged with second-degree arson, second-degree burglary, stealing, first-degree pro...
Pope Francis and other religious leaders made a joint appeal on Monday for next month's U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) to offer concrete solutions to save the planet from "an unprecedented...
The French Catholic Church has had an estimated 3,000 paedophiles in its ranks over the past 70 years, the head of an independent commission investigating the sex abuse scandal said in an interview pu...
A replica of Michelangelo's 'David' sculpture has been censored at an expo in Dubai to avoid causing offence to Muslims. Staff at the expo reportedly agonised over how to display a 3D-pri...
A petition with more than 2000 signatures has been delivered to the Cuban Embassy in London demanding the release of a pastor who was detained in July. The charity, CSW says Pastor Rosales Fajardo was...
Pope Francis has challenged world leaders not to disappoint new generations when it comes to tackling hunger and malnutrition. In a message read to a World Food Forum gathering, he urged world leaders...
Tens of thousands of people have been taking part in rallies across the United States demanding continued access to abortion. In Washington, thousands marched on the Supreme Court, which will decide t...
The former President of the United States says no one has done more for the Christian faith than he has. Donald Trump has been making an appearance, via telephone, on the Christian TV station The Vict...
Efforts to translate the Bible into more languages across the world are accelerating, despite the pandemic. Wycliffe Bible Translators says 717 languages now have a full Bible translation - almost ten...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 shook Greece's largest island, Crete, on Monday morning, killing one person and injuring several, authorities said. The tremor sent people fleeing out of home...
Religious freedom charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide is calling for information regarding the status of Chinese writer and activist Pang Jian, who has been detained for over eight months on suspic...
In Wisconsin, a United Church of Christ camp has changed its name in order to "lift up Indigenous voices" and own up to colonialism. Camp Awesum, a summer ministry based in Green Lake, Wisconsin, anno...
The Southern Baptist Executive Committee voted for an additional week of debates after the ecclesiastical leadership organisation disagreed on how to progress on investigating abuse claims inside the ...
A prosecutor in Missouri reported on Tuesday that he had charged five employees of a Christian college with abusing students. The employees of the Agape Boarding School, a Christian school for "rebell...
 Pope Francis on Wednesday praised youth climate campaigners for their efforts to tackle global warming and encouraged them to carry on with their work "for the good of humanity". Thousands of young a...
The European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) has issued a call to action in response to the ongoing refugee crisis. The group urged European leaders to do more to tackle the issue, which it called a "huma...
A church on the Spanish island of La Palma has been destroyed by lava that spewed from the erupting Cumbre Vieja volcano. Footage of the dramatic moment shows smoke billowing towards the belltower be...
The tiny republic of San Marino has voted overwhelmingly in favour of legalising abortion in a referendum, official results showed on Sunday. Some 77.30 per cent of voters backed the proposal to allow...
The Christian church in Afghanistan is becoming increasingly hidden, according to the charity, Release International. It says Christians are now fleeing the cities for more remote areas in a bid to re...
