The leader of Catholics in England and Wales has given his backing to UK air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, telling Premier it would be "defensible" Cardinal Vincent Nichols said "indiscr...
A traded posed as a multi-millionaire with links to the Vatican and Spanish royalty to defraud an international shipping company of £73 million, a court heard. Luis Nobre, 49, was one of a number of ...
A convoy of aid for migrants in Calais organised by British youth workers has arrived in France. It is estimated that more than 4,000 migrants and asylum seekers are now living in the Calais camp nic...
A Christian digital expert has told Premier that she can see how one in three people check their smartphone in the middle of the night because the devices are a Dr Bex Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Digit...
A Ukrainian Archbishop has been sent to a monastery for a month after being caught on CCTV getting involved in a fight at a bar. Ukrainian news agencies report that Archbishop Mstyslav is seen on th...
A Ukrainian bishop has claimed that the Vatican does not understand Eastern Catholic perspective. Bishop Hlib Lonchyna from the Ukrainian Catholic Church has publically spoken out saying that the Ca...
Ukraine's Orthodox Church has installed a Metropolitan, a church leader, in a move which further proves their distance from Moscow. There has been a clash between the Orthodox Church in Moscow and th...
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has officially gained independence from the Russian church. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I signed on Saturday the decree of independence which ...
Ukrainian police have searched the homes of Russian Orthodox priests and Russian Orthodox churches in several cities, stepping up pressure as Kiev pushes for th The eight searches in Ukraine's capita...
The UN is being encouraged to do more to expose violations of the freedom of religion or belief, conscience, and expression in the US, Australia, and Europe. Religious freedom charity ADF Internation...
The UN has announced that more than five million people - about a third of the population - will be in need of food aid. On Wednesday, the United Nations said Zimbabwe was facing its worst ever hunge...
The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) has urged Sri Lankan authorities to take stronger measures to address hate crim Dr Ahmed Shaheed visited the country earlier this mon...
Christian NGOs are pleading with around 120 world leaders currently attending the UN climate summit in New York to reach a deal on the issue. Prime Minister David Cameron is among those who have gath...
The UN has held its first day commemorating victims of acts of violence based on religion or belief. Similar to days such as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the 2...
Diplomats at the United Nations shall be warned on Wednesday that war poses a specific to Christians and other religious groups. They will be told during a meeting in Geneva that religious minorities...
The UN has adopted an international day commemorating the victims of violence that occurred because of their religion or belief. On May 28, 2019, Poland, supported by several other countries, includ...
A group of UN experts have called for the trials of three Christians in Iran to be fair and transparent. The special rapporteurs, who are part of the largest body of independent experts in the UN Hu...
The United Nations is investigating reports its own peacekeeping forces failed to stop the mass rape of dozens of aid workers in South Sudan, even though they w According to Associated Press and Huma...
A United Nations Special Rapporteur looking into the arbitrary loss of life in Nigeria has described the situation as a 'pressure cooker of injustice'. Agnes Callamard from the UN investigated misdem...
Christian humanitarian charity Tearfund has urged people to reduce their carbon footprint as a new United Nations report shows after steadily declining for over The State of Food Security and Nutriti...
