An American Pastor is reportedly receiving death threats in his Iranian prison cell. Saeed Abedini was jailed last year for compromising national security although it's understood his arrest was orig...
The 27-year-old is understood to have committed suicide after battling with mental illness US pastor Rick Warren says he's overwhelmed by the support given to his family following the death of his so...
The lawyer for an American pastor held in Turkey on spying and terror charges has petitioned Turkey's highest court for his release. Andrew Craig Brunson was arrested following a failed coup in 2016 ...
Five pastors in the US are mounting a legal challenge against a state law they say hampers their work with children experiencing a same-sex attraction. The Illinois church leaders from Pastors Protec...
A police department in the US must pay $41,000 after its sheriff published messages about the Bible and Easter on an official Facebook page. Posts by Eric Watson from the Bradley County police depart...
A Democrat senator from Missouri has apologised at her church after she said on Facebook she hoped Donald Trump would be assassinated. Giving a statement at Wellspring Church in Ferguson, Maria Chapp...
Members of the public will be able to pay their respects to Rev Billy Graham when his body lies in honour in Washington D.C. next week. The US evangelist's coffin will be placed in the dome-covered c...
The chicken shop Chick-fil-A has been criticised for funding the Southern Poverty Law Centre by those who regret the end of the company's donations to Christian The chain recently stopped funding The...
The United States ought to impose economic sanctions on Turkey if a detained American pastor is not released, two senators have claimed. James Lankford, a Republican, and Democrat Jeanna Shaheen said...
A US preacher has sparked a row over a tweet which prayed for Nepalese people to convert and non-Christian places of worship to remain destroyed amid the curren Tony Miano's tweet read: "Praying 4 th...
The US Presbyterian Church has announced it will recognise same sex marriages. In a vote yesterday, a majority of the 171 regional "presbyteries" backed a change to the wording of its constitution to...
Ted Cruz, the Republican presidential contender, has asked one of his senior aides to resign after he falsely accused rival candidate, Marco Rubio, of suggestin Rick Tyler worked as the Communication...
The US hopeful for the Republican candidacy to stand for president, Bobby Jindal, has said the worst discrimination in his country at the moment is against Chri The Louisiana Governor joined others s...
Police are investigating a hate crime after a US Catholic priest was beaten while praying at his church in Indiana. Rev Basil John Hutsko told police he was attacked on Monday morning inside the St M...
A priest has been killed and another's in critical condition after a shooting at a Catholic church in the United States. 28 year old Father Kenneth Walker died after the incident late on Wednesday ni...
A priest in California is being sued for sexual harassment after allegedly sending intimate pictures to a church worker. Fr Larry McGovern, who leads the Church of the Presentation in Stockton, has b...
More than a thousand children were molested by hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in six Pennsylvania dioceses, while senior church officials took steps to cove The grand jury said it believes the "r...
The US has denied reports that its embassy in Turkey's capital had confirmed the detained American pastor Andrew Brunson would be released by house arrest by 15 An embassy official told Reuters on Mo...
The United States government has turned down a deal from Turkey which would see an imprisoned American pastor released. A White House official told the Wall Street Journal the Turkish government offe...
The US has warned the detention of pastor Andrew Brunson in Turkey is hindering US-Turkish relations. The American Charge d'Affaires in Ankara, Philip Kosnett, said there is a "strong sense of unity ...
