The Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis has agreed a 210 million US dollar (£158 million) settlement with 450 victims of clergy sexual abuse, a lawyer says. It is part of its plan for bankruptcy r...
Busy drivers in California can now be blessed by a pastor through their car window. The first drive-thru service at the car park of the Holy Spirit Church in Fremont was held on 17th November.Around ...
A church in the United States has opened its own gun range. Rocky Mount United Methodist Church in Jemison, Alabama, originally opened the club after many of its older members bought firearms, but di...
A white man charged in connection with the massacre of nine black parishioners at a church in America has been attacked in jail. Dylann Roof, 22, was targeted by Dwayne Stafford, who is black, after ...
It's been widely reported a church in the United States, where a shooting last year claimed nine lives, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carol...
Churches in Massachusetts, USA, could be forced to adopt a new anti-discrimination law on transgender people using the bathroom of the gender they identify with Recently passed legislation which chan...
The president of a Christian advocacy charity is to address American politicians on the persecution of believers in China. Bob Fu, president of China Aid, will tell members of the Congressional-Execu...
The United States Department of Justice has taken a new step in making sure the rights of religious groups across the country are protected. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation o...
Officials in the American state of Kentucky have discovered 26 pounds of cannabis hidden inside a statue of Jesus Christ. The find was made at a DHL Express cargo facility in Northern Kentucky on Fri...
A US Roman Catholic diocese has identified 71 members of the church who had been accused of child sex abuse and said it was holding accountable the bishops who It announced their names will be strip...
More than $3.5million has been paid by a Catholic diocese in California to a sex abuse victim. The Diocese of Santa Rosa said in a statement it had given 'a significant settlement to a victim of the ...
The US Episcopal Church has said it will not change its position on gay marriage despite the punishment imposed on it by the Anglican Communion. "Nothing about what the primates have said will change...
The first Black leader of the American Episcopal Church has been inducted at a service at Washington National Cathedral in the capital. Bishop Michael Curry, from Buffalo, New York, took his positio...
The US Episcopal Church is calling for prayers after Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry was taken to hospital. His office announced he was taken for treatment after a visitation to Bruton Par...
A large evangelical church in Tennessee, United States, has announced it will support gay marriage. GracePointe Church in Franklin near Nashville said it will break with the "traditional" stance on s...
More than 150 conservative Christian leaders across the US have signed a statement, affirming their beliefs on human sexuality. The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood's list of 14 beliefs, ref...
American evangelical Christians are more knowledgeable about the Bible and Christianity than other American Christians, while American Jews are most knowledgeab The survey called, 'What Americans Kno...
The US evangelist Paul Cain has died at the age of 89. The Texas-born Pentecostal minister passed away on Wednesday.A statement released by his colleagues at Paul Cain Ministries said: "Our precious ...
A newly ordained female Episcopal bishop in the US has killed a bicyclist, before reportedly fleeing the scene in the state of Maryland. Police on Saturday said a 58-year-old female motorist drove aw...
The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution recognising Islamic State's treatment of Christians and other minorities as genocide. The congressional body overwhelmingly passed the resoluti...
