A coalition of church leaders has appealed to the government and churches to protect people against a rise in far-right nationalism. The National Church Leaders Forum (NCLF) has issued a joint stateme...
Africa’s Catholic Church has continued to grow despite global declines in priestly numbers, according to new Vatican data. The continent gained 1,285 priests in 2023, a rise of nearly three per ce...
A Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper-spray by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a protest last month has spoken out saying he was was "praying audibly to them" w...
Bishops from the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church have written an open letter declaring that “peace is not the absence of war,” as the Israel–Palestine peace deal tentatively begins. “As Ch...
Twenty-one nuns managed to escape from a 400-year-old monastery in Italy over the weekend, after the 17th-century building was engulfed in flames. The fire broke out shortly after 8 p.m. on Saturday i...
The founder of the Alpha Course, Nicky Gumbel, says he’s seeing evidence of a ‘quiet revival’ at his own church, Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB). Speaking to the Evangelical 360 Degree podcast, he s...
More than two decades after The Passion of the Christ became a global phenomenon, director Mel Gibson is moving forward with its long-awaited sequel—but without two of its most iconic stars. Film in...
As the government shutdown enters its second week, thousands of Christians gathered on the National Mall to lift the name of Jesus for Communion America. Event organizers described the four-day even...
More young people in Northern Ireland are showing an interest in religion, according to a new poll commissioned by The Iona Institute. It found a clear reversal of the previous continual decline by ag...
Town planners should better embrace faith and belief perspectives in order to build community resilience for the future. That’s according to a new report by researchers at Goldsmiths University of L...
A Christian persecution watchdog has called for urgent international action after at least 60 people, including 22 children, were killed in a series of airstrikes by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RS...
President Donald Trump has declared that “a new age of faith and hope and of God” has begun, as he renewed calls for lasting peace in the Middle East. In an emotional address to Israel’s Knesset...
Donald Trump has joked that he is "not heaven bound", whilst en route to Israel. Hours ahead of the first Israeli hostages being handed over, the President told reporters on board Air Force One: "I do...
Spanish broadcaster apologises after calling evangelical Church growth ‘dangerous’ Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE has apologised after one of its programs described the growth of evangelica...
A former Catholic priest has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for abusing multiple children, most of whom were under the age of 16. On Friday, Dennis Finbow, who was already serving a six yea...
The Bishop of Chelmsford says she is “devastated” that a Palestinian Christian woman, previously held by Israeli forces for eight months and released, has now been sentenced to another eight month...
Police in China detained dozens of pastors of one of its largest underground churches over the weekend, a church spokesperson and relatives said, in the biggest crackdown on Christians since 2018. ...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Chicago, Illinois, blocked a group of Catholics from sharing communion with detainees held inside the Broadview detention center. The group—made up of...
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has reiterated its concern over persistent attacks on Christian communities in the country. In a statement signed by Archbishop Daniel Okoh, President of CAN...
Prayer vigils have been held in Tennessee near the site of an exploded munitions factory where 18 people are feared dead. The eight-story building, located about 60 miles west of Nashville, was comple...
