A priest arrested with cyanide in his suitcase in the former Soviet republic of Georgia is suspected of plotting to poison a senior cleric, prosecutors have sai Fr Georgi Mamaladze was detained at Tb...
A retired priest from Arizona has been arrested by police investigating the murder of a teacher and beauty queen in 1960. Irene Garza was last seen visiting Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, T...
An American priest's pleaded for the life of his murderer to be spared capital punishment in a letter he wrote 22 years ago. Fr Rene Robert begged in an official legal document written in 1995 that w...
Father Francois Murad was attacked by extremists at the monastery he was staying in after they accused him of collaborating with the Assad regime. The Vatican has confirmed a Catholic priest has been...
A Ugandan Catholic priest has been identified as one of the bodies found in a mass grave in Mexico last month. Fr John Ssenyondo had been missing since being kidnapped by gunmen six months ago.His ca...
Two people on trial accused of leaking Vatican secrets are engaged in a public battle against one-another. A Spanish priest, Fr Vallejo Baldo, 54, and a PR guru are caught up in accusations of sexua...
A US priest claimed he was trying to get revenge on God for poker losses when he collected child abuse images at his weekend home, according to his lawyer and c Rev Kevin Gugliotta was sentenced to b...
The Catholic Church is making the lives of gay people a "hell", a priest who was sacked for coming out as homosexual has claimed. Krzysztof Charamsa said the priesthood was "full of homosexuals" and ...
An Anglican priest has confronted the Australian Leader of the Opposition over comments he made about people who oppose same-sex marriage. Rev Ian Powell, who serves at St Matthew's Wanniassa in the ...
A Catholic priest has been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman on a flight in the United States. Father Marcelo De Jesumaria, who is based in Arrowhead, California, has been found guilty of abu...
A priest has been killed after two men stormed a French church armed with knives and slit his throat. Fr Jacques Hamel, 84, had served the community of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, south of Rouen, for d...
An American Catholic priest will be sentenced later for embezzling money from a charity meant for Detroit's poor. Revd Timothy Kane stole money from the Angel Fund ranging from one thousand to 20 tho...
A priest in Rome has said someone stashed €36,000 (£31,500) in a confessional box. Fr Giovanni Martire Savina from Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci, a church near the Vatican, said he's never se...
Father Vyacheslav Baskakov, a Russian Orthodox priest is facing disciplinary action for his habitual posting of designer purchases on the social media site Inst He posted pictures of high end Louis V...
A Polish priest has been sentenced to more than three years in prison by the Vatican for trying to steal £170,000. Bronislaw Morawiec withdrew the money from the Vatican's bank in 2009 whilst serving...
A priest in Switzerland has set up a special SOS network to take calls and find the location of people crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Father Mussie Zerai, 40, originally from Eritrea himself, left f...
A priest is the first person to have revolutionary surgery performed inside his eye with the aid of a robot. 70-year-old Fr William Beaver, associate priest at St Mary the Virgin Church in Oxford, s...
A Catholic priest who groped a sleeping woman seated next to him on an aeroplane has been sentenced to six months in prison in the US. A jury in Los Angeles found Marcelo de Jesumaria, 46, guilty of ...
A priest, who was reportedly kidnapped for a second time by Islamic militants, is now thought to have been released. Fr Dhiya Aziz, of the Custody of the Holy Land mission agency, was serving in Yaco...
 A Jesuit Priest has been abducted in Syria, according to Aid to the Church in Need. It has been reported that local Christians fear Islamic extremists have abducted Father Jacques Mourad who has not...
