An emergency appeal was launched on Wednesday to tackle the hunger crisis in Afghanistan. As Afghanistan feels the effects of long term conflict, political instability, climate change and Covid, its p...
A radio host has come under fire after discussing the origins of the Christmas story on his Australian show. Richard Glover, host of ABC Sydney's Drive programme received backlash from listeners a...
A Christian school in India has been attacked by over 300 Hindu nationalists. St Joseph's School in Madhya Pradesh State was targeted earlier this month after false allegations that the school wa...
The state of Arizona on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a Republican-backed law that bans abortions performed due to fetal genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome to go into effect. ...
The US State Department is being urged to reinstate Nigeria as a 'country of particular concern', as more Christians are being killed there than anywhere else on earth. It comes after the US S...
The charity CSW (Christian Solidarity Worldwide) says a church leader who had been abducted from his farm in Nigeria has been murdered. Reverend Dauda Bature, senior pastor of the Evangelical Church W...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican department has apologised for "causing pain to the entire LGBTQ community" by removing from its website a link to resource material from a Catholic gay rights ad...
Church leaders in India are being advised not to host Christmas services due to security concerns. Police in India's Karnataka state have advised Christians not to gather in rented halls or privat...
The wife of bestselling author, theologian and pastor Tim Keller has thanked people for their outpouring of love and support, citing recent “remarkable improvement” in her husband’s health. Keller, wh...
Pope Francis, in his first comments on the tensions between the West and Russia over Ukraine, called on Sunday for serious international dialogue to resolve tensions and urged both sides to avoid an a...
The youngest bishop in Spain has been suspended from carrying out his religious responsibilities as a result of his recent marriage to a psychologist and writer of satanic erotica. A statement publish...
Church leaders and charities are calling on the Nigerian government to provide additional protection for Christians in Nigeria over the festive period. Director of Advocacy at Open Doors UK and Irelan...
Bruxy Cavey, the leader of Toronto's Meeting House Church has been placed on a leave of absence after sexual misconduct allegations were made against him. In a statement to the Religious News Serv...
A Camel has caused chaos in the US state of Kansas, after breaking free from the nativity it was taking part in. The animal managed to evade police for 24 hours after performing at the drive-thru play...
Pope Francis said on Monday he was willing to go to Moscow for to meet Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill "brother to brother" in what would be the first trip by a pope to Russia. The pair's meetin...
Pakistan’s Catholic bishops have denounced the lynching of a Christian Sri Lankan man by a mob who accused him of blasphemy, tortured him to death and set his body on fire. In a statement seen by Cat...
Three more missionaries held hostage in Haiti have been released. Christian Aid Ministries confirmed that the American and Canadian missionaries, who had been held in captivity since October, were rel...
A charity has raised concerns over the wellbeing of Christians in Myanmar, after the county's former leader was sentenced to four years in prison. Aung San Suu Kyi and former president Win Myint h...
Pope Francis said on Monday that he had accepted the resignation of Paris archbishop Michel Aupetit not because he had sinned but because the gossip about him had left him in a position where he could...
Pope Francis appealed on Saturday for a return to "good politics", saying democracy has deteriorated dangerously as discontented people are lured by the "siren songs" of populist politicians who promi...
