Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has held a historic meeting at Egypt's largest cathedral with Coptic Pope Tawadros II. While it's unknown what the pair discussed, speaking to Egyptian...
Reports have emerged unmasking the mystery buyer of a painting of Christ by Leonardo da Vinci, which sold for a record $450m US dollars (£341m) at auction last US intelligence assessments seen by the...
Two Texas newspapers have revealed 380 sexual misconduct allegations across America's Southern Baptist church, 220 of which are confirmed convictions or guilty The Houston Chronicle says more of the...
A school in the US has come under fire for allegedly forcing students to read Bible passages as a form of punishment. The North Bend School District in Oregon initially denied the claim but The Coos ...
A spike in violence has left almost 7,000 people from a Christian minority in Myanmar without a home and a Christian school destroyed. According to the Red Cross, a fresh wave of fighting in April ha...
The principal of a school in the US has stepped down following complaints made by LGBT students that they were forced to read the Bible as a form of punishment. The decision was made as part of a set...
Gideons International is being stopped from distributing free Bibles at a school in the US following concern the practise is unconstitutional. The evangelical organisation has been banned for handing...
Hollywood star-turned environmental campaigner Arnold Schwarzenegger said it was a "great honour" to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican. The former governor of California attended the pontiff's General...
A scientific journal has withdrawn a research paper on the human hand because it repeatedly suggested the existence of a "Creator". The paper, called 'Biomechanical Characteristics of Hand Coordinati...
Scientists have claimed that they have found illustrations for ancient home remedies in a document that contained the first known copy of the gospels in Arabic. Researchers from the Early Manuscripts...
400 priests are expected to attend a special screening of a Christian film at the Vatican that has been 27 years in the making. Martin Scorsese's film, Silence, tells the story of two 17th Century mi...
Seven of Scotland's top church leaders have urged the home secretary to grant asylum to a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan. Figures including Rt Rev Susan Brown (pictured below), th...
Scottish MSPs in the Freedom of Belief group have called for Asia Bibi's hearing to go ahead soon. Asia Bibi is a Christian woman, imprisoned since 2010 for blasphemy against the Islamic prophet Muha...
A London church will be taking in refugees, following an announcement by the Vatican saying that that it will take in two refugee families fleeing war or hunger The Pope called on Catholic parishes, ...
Around 200 migrants are feared dead as authorities collect the bodies of victims who drowned off the Libyan coastal city of Zuwara. Elsewhere, three people have been arrested in connection with the d...
A sculpture of Satan planned for a Spanish city has been criticised for being too jolly. 5,400 people, more than ten per cent of the residents in the city of Segovia have signed a petition calling fo...
Ten Indonesian sailors held captive by terrorists in the Philippines for five weeks are being supported by chaplains following their release. The seafarers were released on May 1 after being kidnappe...
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer finally got to meet the pope after being left off a list of White House officials who had the chance to meet Fran Mr Spicer attended an audience with Po...
Benedict the 16th announced that he was retiring yesterday, surprising even his closest aides. The successor to the Pope needs to build on the work Benedict XVI did in his attempts to bring peace to ...
A second Coptic Christian has been murdered in the Sinai region of Egypt in a week. According to AP, Gamal Tawfiq, 50 and a Christian schoolteacher, was shot by two gunmen on a motorbike as he was wa...
