The Sea of Galilee in northern Israel is at its highest level in two decades after exceptional winter rainfall, but the beaches and major Christian sites along its banks are empty. Tourism usually pea...
Christians in Niger are fearful they could be targeted by Muslim extremists following violent protests against the country's ban on places of worship due to coronavirus. In 2015 at least five peop...
A pastor in Russia could have his house torn down by the authorities after running allegedly illegal church meetings there. The city administration of Novorossiysk has filed a  lawsuit against Pastor ...
Supporters of a US church leader who was arrested for repeatedly defying lockdown orders have jammed police phone lines after the pastor encouraged them to make their opinions known to the authorities...
A Chinese church founded by a group of US missionaries has had its cross torn down by the communist regime. Hefei Christian Church (HCC) in the country's Anhui province was founded by American mis...
The Vatican has formally closed its latest investigation into the 1983 disappearance of an employee's 15-year-old daughter after digging up a Holy See cemetery in search of her remains. The myster...
A pastor from the state of Georgia is celebrating after his wife survived a brutal battle with coronavirus. Claudette Himes began feeling unwell in mid-March after developing a high fever. With medica...
The United States Attorney General, William Barr, has threatened to take legal action against states who infringe on civil liberties through the issuing of coronavirus-related lockdown orders. In a tw...
Services without sung worship are a possibility if churches are to start gathering again. Across Europe there are discussions and disagreements about when and how churches should join the rest of soc...
A Norther Korean expert has spoken of the need to pray for believers in the state as the disappearance of leader Kim Jong Un suggests a possible outbreak of coronavirus. It has been announced that US ...
Pope Francis waded into the church-state debate about virus-imposed lockdowns of religious services, calling for "prudence and obedience" to government protocols to prevent infections from surging aga...
A campaign has been launched calling for the release of a deacon who has been imprisoned in North Korea for sharing the Gospel. Korean-Chinese Christian Zhang Wen Shi, also known as Deacon Jang Jang M...
Large churches in South Korea have started reopening after the Government relaxed restrictions for places of religious worship. However, it is not business as usual as members of one church are havin...
A bishop in Mozambique has decried a spate of devastating attacks by jihadists, including the targeting of churches during Holy Week. Speaking to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop Lui...
A priest in America led an Uber Eats delivery driver in confession on his doorstep after receiving the food he ordered. Father Dan Beeman of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Virginia received more than ju...
Workers are refitting the construction site at fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral to protect staff from coronavirus and allow clean-up efforts at the Paris landmark to resume. More than a year after th...
Places of worship in Italy are preparing to adapt the way they meet together as the Prime Minister sets out plans to ease social distancing measures. Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte has said factories c...
New sales figures indicate that the Bible has experienced a dramatic surge in sales as readers search for hope amid the current coronavirus pandemic. Book sales data provider Nielsen BookScan said tha...
A controversial US pastor who has been in trouble with the law over his refusal to obey lockdown orders has once again defied his state's stay-at-home mandate by holding a busy in-person church se...
Catholic bishop Declan Lang has welcomed the emergence of new figures showing a sustained decrease in executions around the globe. Lang has been a key voice in urging the British government to lead th...
