An Iranian Christian woman who was imprisoned after converting from Islam has been released from prison. Fatemeh Bakhteri was arrested in a raid on a house church meeting at her home in Rasht, northe...
A Catholic missionary who was abducted in Niger a year and a half ago is thought to be alive after appearing in a video released by his captors. Father Pierluigi Maccalli was kidnapped in April 2018 ...
More people read and shared Bible verses this Easter from YouVersion's Bible app than ever before. YouVersion, which supplies the whole Bible in several translations on a simple app, reported the...
A new study has found that almost half of Americans believe that the Bible should influence the making of US laws. The survey from Pew Research Center revealed that 49 per cent of participants insiste...
A number of Christians from a heavily persecuted protestant megachurch in China have been detained after being caught engaging in an Easter worship service on Zoom. Several key members of Early Rain ...
The US Department of Justice has been forced to intervene after a Mississippi church was slapped with fines for holding a drive-in service. Pastor Arthur Scott of Temple Baptist Church had decided tha...
The restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral has been halted by the coronavirus crisis a year after fire gutted its interior and toppled its spire. Some scaffolding that was erected for an earlier renovati...
Prominent US evangelist Franklin Graham has urged church leaders to heed the advice of experts and stop hosting in-person services. Graham's comments come as several congregations across the Unite...
A group of suspected Fulani Herdsmen have murdered a pastor and three members of his congregation - including a 10-year-old boy - in a vicious attack on a Christian community in Nigeria's Plateau ...
A French Catholic priest has been fined after violating the country's lockdown rules and holding an Easter mass. Local residents were horrified when they heard music coming from the Saint-Nicolas-...
Cardinal George Pell has linked his fight against corruption in the Vatican with his prosecution in Australia for alleged child sex abuse. Mr Pell was the third highest-ranking Vatican official in 201...
 On Easter Sunday, a doctor's uniform was projected onto the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, with "thank you" in multiple languages underneath. 📷Buda Mendes/Getty Images p...
A US pastor who questioned the severity of his state's lockdown orders has died after contracting coronavirus. Bishop Gerald Glenn of New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Virginia had hosted an ...
Leading international development charity Christian Aid is campaigning for the debts of some of the world's poorest countries to be nullified as the world remains preoccupied with fighting coronav...
The office of the US Attorney General has said it will take legal action against authorities who unfairly target religious organisations during the coronavirus outbreak. Spokeswoman for Attorney Gene...
The pastor of a Sri Lankan church targeted in last year's Easter Sunday bombings has said God told him and members of his congregation about the coming attack. Â In the months leading up to the bl...
The Sudanese Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments has opened an investigation into a series of attacks on a church in Khartoum. Sudan Church of Christ (SCOC) Jabarona was targeted numerous tim...
US President Donald Trump has given his Easter message from the Oval Office, asking Americans to pray. Mr Trump said: "On this Good Friday, Christians from all around the world remember the suffering...
Christians are commemorating Good Friday without the traditional church services or processions of previous years in a world locked down by the coronavirus pandemic. The chanting of a small group of c...
A New York emergency field hospital set up by Christian relief charity Samaritan's Purse has treated more than 80 patients in its first week. Samaritan's Purse opened the care facility in Cent...
