Five Kenyans and one Tanzanian are being held over Thursday's Garissa University attack in which a reported 148 Christians were murdered. A Nariobi court has ordered the six to be detained for 30 day...
Authorities say gunmen have attacked a Catholic church in Burkina Faso, killing a priest and five worshippers. The attack on Sunday took place in Dablo, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) from the capi...
At least six people have been shot dead at a church in northern Burkina Faso. The violence took place on Sunday in the village of Silgadji, not far from the volatile border with Mali.Urbain Kabore, t...
A suicide bomber has blown himself up at a church in Nigeria, killing six people. The militant, who's believed to be from the extremist group Boko Haram, pretended to be a worshipper at the Redeemed ...
The funerals of four Christians yesterday led to riots as thousands of mourners left a Cathedral in Cairo. Six people have died in the last two days as religious violence in Egypt.The funerals of fou...
A journalist and camera man have been arrested after they interviewed the pastor leading the campaign to oust Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe. Sky News' Alex Crawford and Garwen McLuckie were deta...
Attendees to a street festival celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lifestyles were reminded at the weekend that "Jesus saves". A skywriting plane painted the skies above Sydney in Aust...
The slab Jesus' body is believed to have been laid on after he was crucified has been uncovered for the first time in centuries. It was found during restoration work at the Church of the Holy Sepulch...
Slovakia will only accept Christian refugees from the Syrian war, a government spokesman has claimed. Interior ministry spokesman Ivan Netik said the country was due to take 200 people from camps in ...
A special smartphone app has been created to help visitors to Vatican City make their way around and learn more about the Holy See. The free app, Patrum, shows off a selection of works at the Vatican...
The widespread use of smartphones risks paving the way for the arrival of the Antichrist, the head of the Russia Orthodox Church has claimed. Patriarch Kirill said the Church does not oppose technolo...
A Muslim man from Cameroon is on trial in Spain accused of murdering six Christian passengers on his migrant boat because of their faith. The alleged incident happened in 2014 during a crossing from...
A Christian conservation charity has hailed the first solar-powered plane to cross the Atlantic Sea as "a fantastic achievement" that could "change the world in A Rocha was speaking after Solar Impul...
A Christian charity is calling on the international community to respond to the crisis in Somalia, where more than 5 million people face hunger caused by drough The UK Government has pledged an addit...
Christian humanitarian workers say some help is getting through to Syrian families in need, amid a warning some aid is not reaching some besieged areas where fo The Unitied Nations envoy Staffan de M...
Cardinal Vincent Nichols has accused the government of an "arbitrary" approach to refugees fleeing the Middle East which is seeing from girls Iraq escaping Isla The prominent Catholic said some child...
null A senior Nigerian official has said 21 of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram, have been released.The country's government has not issued any statement and t...
The son of an Episcopal priest is in police custody, accused of murdering his parents and brother. Isaac Tiharihondi is alleged to have brutally killed Revd Dr Israel Ahimbisibwe, 51, Dorcus Ahimbisi...
A man arrested over fires at three black churches in Louisiana is the son of a sheriff's deputy. Holden Matthews, a 21-year-old white man, faces three counts of simple arson of a religious building.S...
The BBC has spoken for the first time about filming its popular Songs of Praise programme in a make-shift migrant church in Calais. Aaqil Ahmed, Head of Religion and Ethics at the BBC said that "the ...
