Pope Francis hosted a lunch for 1,300 poor and homeless people on Sunday, the day the Roman Catholic Church marks the World Day of the Poor. Francis, who has been using a wheelchair and cane because o...
The Archbishop of Armagh says there is a “crying need for atonement” and “healing” in the wake of the abuse scandals in the Catholic Church in Ireland. The Primate of All Ireland was talking at Saint ...
Bobbie Houston – wife of former Hillsong megachurch leader Brian Houston – has asked for prayer ahead of her husband’s court appearance. Brian Houston will be appearing in court to defend himself aga...
Cyprus on Saturday buried Archbishop Chrysostomos II, a trailblazer who butted heads with his peers to keep Russian influence in the Orthodox Church at bay and led the biggest ecclesiastical reforms i...
A Christian woman in India has had her body exhumed for converting away from the local tribal religion. According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Janki Sori was buried on land owned by her family ...
After seven months, the Russian army have left the key Ukrainian city of Kherson. Ukrainian troops have been hugged and kissed by locals after the city was liberated from Russian control. It had bee...
Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned the use of mercenaries in Russia's war against Ukraine, saying they were inflicting "so much cruelty" on the population. Speaking at the end of his general audi...
A pastor dubbed the ‘Bling Bishop’ is suing a radio host after she claimed he was "hiding drug money". Bishop Lamar Whitehead, of Brooklyn, made headlines earlier this year after he was robbed at gunp...
The Vatican will open an investigation into French Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, who earlier this week admitted to sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl decades ago. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said o...
The Archbishop of Canterbury is encouraging people to pray for Christians in Nigeria. In a tweet, Most Rev Justin Welby referenced a recent speech by the Anglican Primate of Nigeria warning of the si...
The Vatican's first auditor general and his deputy, who were appointed in 2015 and fired two years later, are suing the Holy See for 9.3 million euros ($9.25 million) in damages, alleging they wer...
Naomi Zacharias, one of the daughters of late apologist Ravi Zacharias, has issued a staunch defence of her sister Sarah Philips and the leadership team at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries. She...
A 'warrior priest' killed in Ukraine has been given the highest award by Vladimir Putin. Mikhail Vasilyev - a pro-kremlin archpriest - died over the weekend. The Orthodox Church says he was pe...
A new investigation looking into the culture at Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) has revealed its senior leadership team failed to look after its staff, as many felt "spiritually abused"...
German prosecutors are due to investigate whether Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, one of the German Catholic Church's most senior clerics, perjured himself earlier this year in sworn testimony about...
A Nigerian priest was kidnapped from his home in northern Kaduna state, the local Roman Catholic diocese said in a statement on Tuesday, in the first such reported abduction of a clergyman in the stat...
The pope has accepted the resignation of a German bishop found guilty of embezzling more than €100,000 (£88,000) from a woman with dementia. Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Bündgens was sentenced to nine m...
A film director has come under fire ahead of the release of her new documentary, which suggests the word “homosexual” was never supposed to be in the Bible. Sharon “Rocky” Roggio’s film isn’t due to ...
A 23-year-old man in the US was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of setting seven buildings on fire early in the morning, including two churches, near Jackson State University in the capital of Missis...
Former Pope Benedict XVI plans to defend himself in a civil lawsuit lodged at a German court by a man who accuses him of helping to cover up historical abuse, a court spokesperson said on Tuesday. In ...
