A synagogue in New York has been fined $15,000 (£11,200) for violating Covid-19 restrictions by holding a massive wedding. The Hasidic wedding was held at Yetev Lev D’Satmar synagogue in Williamsburg,...
A British archaeologist has said there is a "strong case to be made" that a house excavated in Nazareth is the childhood home of Jesus Christ. Professor Ken Dark of the University of Reading has spent...
Suspected Islamic militants have murdered four Christians in a remote Indonesian village. The killers beheaded one of the believers and slit the throats of the three others, before burning down all of...
The UK Government has taken a stand against gender-based sexual violence. Last week it launched a policy paper entitled “Declaration of humanity by leaders of faith and leaders of belief”. The documen...
Sectarian violence has broken out in an Egyptian village. Hundreds of local Muslim villagers in Barsha in Minya governorate attacked the homes and properties of local Christians on Wednesday. Accordin...
Pope Francis is encouraging Argentine women who are protesting a proposed new law to legalise abortion, saying the protection of life is above all a matter of human ethics. In the letter to the women ...
"I would say being a Christian in Armenia today is being on the Cross, feeling the physical and emotional torture of the crucifixion. And, more painfully, the abandonment by fellow Christians around t...
A hashtag calling for Catholic priests to be burned alive has been allowed to spread across social media in Spain, despite the country having restrictions in place to prevent hate speech. The call to...
The United States Supreme Court has stepped in to prohibit further Covid-19 restrictions from being imposed on churches in New York. This is the first significant decision that has been swayed by the ...
Hundreds of people are reported to have died in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia. Earlier this month, an armed conflict between the Tigray Peoples' Liberation Front (TPLF) and the central g...
An American pastor who sends scripture-filled helium balloons across the border into North Korea is now facing criminal prosecution. South Korean police have recommended that Pastor Eric Foley and his...
Human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has expressed concern over an uptick in the state-led persecution of human rights advocates. Several leading figures involved in the prot...
Popular Christian author Tim Keller has been speaking about his greatest fears when living with cancer. In an interview with HTB pastor Nicky Gumble, the American author explained how leaving his wife...
Paolo Gabriele, the Vatican butler who was convicted of stealing and leaking Pope Benedict XVI's private papers in 2012, has died aged 54. Vatican News, the Holy See's media portal, said Mr Ga...
A new report shows a growing number of governments around the world are steadily tightening their grip on religious freedoms, with China cited as the worst offender. The Pew Research Centre analysed d...
Humanitarian charity Christian Aid has launched a fundraising appeal to help those left homeless in Central America after two consecutive category four hurricanes have left swathes of devastation acro...
China criticised Pope Francis over a passage in his new book in which he mentions suffering by China's Uighur Muslim minority group. Foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Francis' rem...
Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the US police killing of George Floyd and has blasted Covid-19 sceptics and the media that spread their conspiracies in a new book ...
A suspect has been arrested in connection with the fatal stabbings of two people and the wounding of three others at a church in California's Silicon Valley that was being used as a homeless shelt...
The Palestinian Health Ministry has recommended strict limits on Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem this year due to the coronavirus outbreak. Celebrations in the biblical town revered by Christians ...
