Security has been tightened in Cairo ahead of a two-day visit by the Pope to the Egyptian capital which begins on Friday. Businesses have closed and streets have been shut around the Vatican residenc...
Two US senators have met with Turkey's leader and urged him to help secure the release of an American pastor held in the country for more than 18 months. Lindsey Graham and Jeanna Shaheen said Recep ...
A bishop, whose diocese in north-east Nigeria has suffered at the hands of Boko Haram, is calling on the West to send in military forces to defeat the militants Bishop Oliver Dashe Dome of Maiduguri ...
Archbishop Kattey who is head of the Anglican Church in Niger Delta was taken with his wife from their home by armed men on Friday. Police in Nigeria are looking for the armed men who kidnapped the c...
A representative of Pope Francis and the leader of Catholics in Lebanon have visited displaced Iraqi Christians in Kurdistan. Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan and Cardinal Bechara Rai, the patriarch of...
Half a million Catholics from around the world are calling on the Pope to clarify what the Church's stance is on a number of topical issues. In an open letter, which has been signed by a number of bi...
The Catholic Archbishop of Yangon in south east Myanmar is warning that the countries new laws on religion and race will persecute religious minorities. The new laws that were signed in over the past...
The General Secretary of the World Hindu Council has said it is part of Christian culture to "exploit nuns", after a nun was gang-raped at her convent and left Surendra Jain, the General Secretary, ...
Senior Italian Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi has died at the age of 83, according to the Archdiocese of Milan. Vatican Radio reports that he died on Saturday due to a long illness.Following the death o...
An Algerian Christian convicted of blasphemy has had his sentence reduced. Slimane Bouhafs had been sentenced to five years in prison and fined £900 for what Algerian authorities claim was insulting...
A man has described how a group of people became trapped under a car following a crash in the grounds of a church in Dublin. Seven people were injured, including two critically, after the vehicle col...
There has been a seven-fold rise in the persecution of Christians in China since 2008, according to a new report by an anti-persecution charity. Release International has said that China is seeking...
A seventh church has been set alight in St. Louis, Missouri, in a two week period. The front door of the Shrine of St. Joseph was set alight with accelerant early on Thursday.No one was thought to ha...
Two woman have blown themselves up at a busy market in a Nigerian town that has a considerable Christian population. The female suicide bombers killed at least 21 people in the north-eastern city of ...
Terrorists have killed at least 14 people in twin suicide bombings outside churches in eastern Pakistan. More than 70 people were injured in the attacks in a Christian area of the city of Lahore.Hund...
Officials in The Philippines have confirmed the death of an Canadian hostage after a severed head was discovered by a cathedral. They say Robert Hall (pictured left) was beheaded by Islamic militants...
A senior Vatican official said the clerical sex abuse scandal is such a game-changing catastrophe for the Catholic Churchthat he called it the church' Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, an aide to both re...
A Polish priest is starting a seven year jail term after being found guilty of sexually abusing underage boys. Under the country's privacy laws the 44-year-old clergyman has not been named and identi...
Allegations of sexually inappropriate "actions and words" by former megachurch leader Bill Hybels are "credible", an independent investigation has found. A four-person panel also concluded board memb...
The Christian author and campaigner Shane Claiborne's announced his trial date after being charged for his role in a protest against the death penalty. Shane Claiborne wrote on the Red Letter Christi...
