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...
Jihadists in central Mali are escalating offensives in an effort to seize swathes of the region and impose Shari‘a law – according to reports received by Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need (A...
At least 22 people have drowned after a bus carrying a group of Catholic church-goers was swept away by flood waters in Kenya. One priest is said to have lost 11 nieces in the incident. Reports says a...
Envelopes full of money have been found hidden in a bathroom of a megachurch in Texas, seven years after $600,000 was stolen from the church’s safe. A plumber discovered the undisclosed amount of mone...
The UK head of the Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need has been given a papal knighthood in recognition of his leadership over three decades. Neville Kyrke-Smith, national director of ACN (UK)...
A commission investigating allegations of historical child sexual abuse by members of the Portuguese Catholic church urged victims on Thursday to speak up and help them lift a veil of silence around t...
Pope Francis, at an emotional meeting with migrants, said on Friday he had a responsibility to tell the hard truth about the suffering of refugees, many held in conditions he compared to those in Nazi...
