The son of a prominent Indiana pastor will spend six years behind bars after pleading guilty to one count of child exploitation and three counts of possession of child sex abuse material. Jonathan Pet...
Some states are attempting to push through legislation that would increase the penalty for disrupting religious services at places of worship, with buffer zones around churches also being considered i...
About 100 US military personnel have arrived in Nigeria as Washington scales up an operation to target Islamist insurgents, a Nigerian defence spokesperson said. US President Donald Trump has accused ...
The Vatican will not participate in US President Donald Trump's so-called "Board of Peace" initiative, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's top diplomatic official, said on Tuesday while add...
Pope Leo has urged Catholics to “disarm” their language this Lent, calling on believers to abstain from harsh words and rash judgment. In his Lenten message for 2026, released before Ash Wednesday, th...
A judge has ruled that Christians must be allowed into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Illinois in time for Ash Wednesday. Christian groups will hold an outdoor Mas...
The congregation of a medieval church in Cornwall has celebrated after hearing its bells ringing for the first time in half a century - but without any bell-ringers. The five bells at St Sampson's...
Content warning: This article discusses sexual assault. A pastor at Bethel Church has been placed on leave after allegations of sexual assault surfaced in a YouTube video. In a February 15 statement, ...
US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomin...
The Colombian state entity tasked with finding and identifying more than 135,000 people who have disappeared during the course of the country's six decades of civil conflict said on Monday it has ...
The Vatican is stepping up security inside St Peter's Basilica after recent acts of vandalism, but wants to avoid the "militarisation" of one of the most visited churches in the world, a senior cl...
Fewer than three in ten Americans have rated church clergy as having high moral and ethical standards. It is the lowest rating recorded in the 50 years that Gallup has surveyed the public about how t...
Two Early Rain Covenant Church pastors have been formally arrested on the charge of “inciting subversion of state power”. Elder Li Yingqiang and pastor Dai Zhichao are being held in Deyang Detention ...
The Archbishop of Cape Town has been announced as the new chair of Christian Aid. The UK development and humanitarian agency said Most Rev Dr Thabo Makgoba, has a strong track-record of working on pov...
A former employee of Faith Journey Lutheran Church is accused of stealing more than half a million dollars from the North Dakota congregation. Carly Anne Tufte, the church’s former business manager, i...
Although most US Protestant churchgoers say they value the Bible, a new Lifeway Research study shows that just 31% read scripture every day. The State of Discipleship study measured eight markers of s...
More than 50 inmates at a county jail in Maryland have publicly declared their faith after taking part in a baptism service held inside the facility for the first time. Sixteen women and 38 men were b...
The Church in Nigeria’s Middle Belt has renewed calls for stronger security after ten villagers were killed in an attack in Taraba State. The assault took place on 10th February in Mchia, in north-eas...
A Christian university in Florida has said an annual conference has developed into what it described as a “transformative outpouring," with students continuing in worship and prayer days after the eve...
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon pleaded not guilty on Friday in a criminal case stemming from his coverage of a protest at a Minnesota church against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Lemon...
