France's top bishop said on Tuesday that the secrecy of the confession should not take precedence over French laws on sex crimes against children, reversing his previous position after he was summ...
The Vatican's immunity to prosecution by local courts has been affirmed after the European Court of Human Rights rejected a case brought by 24 victims of alleged sexual abuse by Catholic priests i...
The British Museum is facing its latest campaign to return items looted under colonial rule, with demands that Christian altar tablets are returned to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. A member of the H...
Three seminary students have been kidnapped from their college chapel in Nigeria's Kaduna state. The fourth-year theology students were attacked at Christ the King Major Seminary on Monday. A furt...
Two Christians have been gunned down in Pakistan. Yaqoob Masih and his brother, Haroon Masih, were shot and killed in the Okara District on 8th October. According to International Christian Concern (...
Pope Francis has launched a two-year consultation on the future direction of the Catholic Church. The process will see every Catholic parish around the world asked for their views in a process which i...
Christian human rights campaigners are calling on the Pakistani government to do more protect girls at risk from conversion through forced marriage. ADF International says around a thousand girls from...
Cuban authorities are threating a church leader with a criminal investigation for holding church services. Alain Toledano Valiente is a leader in the Apostolic Movement, an unregistered Protestant den...
A Colombian nun who was kidnapped in 2017 by Islamist militants in Mali has been freed, Mali's presidency said on Saturday. Gloria Cecilia Narvaez was kidnapped by the Macina Liberation Front, an ...
The Vatican said on Friday its delegation to the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow will be headed by its secretary of state, meaning Pope Francis will not be going. Scotland's bish...
The Archbishop of Toledo (Spain), Father Francisco Ferro Chaves, has issued a formal apology in response to the backlash following the publication of an erotic music video filmed in one of Spain’s mos...
Five more students who were kidnapped by gunmen from a school in Nigeria three months ago have been released after ransoms were paid, the school administrator said. About 150 students went missing aft...
Charity Aid to the Church is Need warns that many Christians want to leave Syria because of the struggle for basic needs. Children in Syria are also reported to be scavenging for food as the country&...
France's top bishop has been summoned by the interior minister after saying that the pact of secrecy would prevent a priest from reporting sex crimes against children that were revealed during Cat...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against white minority rule, turned 90 on Thursday, celebrating his birthday with a low-key church servic...
On Wednesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the ban on abortion in Texas after six weeks of pregnancy, following a challenge from President Joe Biden's administration after the US Supreme Co...
An Iranian church leader has been released from prison 12 days after two other leaders who were arrested with him were also released on bail. Ayoub Pourrezade, a lead pastor form the Church of Iran d...
A Canadian pastor who went viral earlier this year for calling police officers "Nazis" when trying to close his church for breaking Covid rules, has issued a warning to Americans saying, "You are next...
Pope Francis said on Wednesday he was saddened and ashamed by the Catholic Church's inability to deal with sexual abuse of children in France and that the Church must make itself a "safe home for ...
Pat Robertson, America’s longest-running TV host, has announced he is stepping down from his role leading The 700 Club programme. Robertson founded the first Christian television ministry in the US, t...
