Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre has named a co-founder and spokesman of the Islamist al Shabaab as minister for religious affairs, a move that could either help strengthen the fight agains...
Pope Francis has said he hoped the people of Lebanon can be comforted by justice over the Beirut port blast that killed at least 215 people two years ago, saying "the truth can never be hidd...
The renowned English born pastor and author Stuart Briscoe has died at his home in Wisconsin, USA. Briscoe, who led the Telling the Truth ministry with his wife Jill, was 91 and died unexpected of nat...
A TikTok star has been forced to remove a post after being accused of 'blasphemy'. Addison Rae - who is a Christian herself - posed in the "Holy Trinity bikini" - a garment mad...
A senior Bishop in Nigeria says the latest terror attacks in the country could pose the gravest danger the country's capital has ever seen. Over the last few days, police have tightened security i...
Several political parties initiated a parliamentary no-confidence motion in the Montenegro's government after it signed a long-disputed contract regulating the country's ties with the powerful...
Bishop Rolando Alvarez, who serves as the radio's coordinator and leads the remote northern Matagalpa diocese, announced the closures on Monday. "All our radio stations have been closed...
Pope Francis said on Wednesday he felt the pain of survivors of Canada's residential school system "like slaps" and that the Catholic Church has to face up to its responsibility for inst...
Clergy members of five religions sued the state of Florida on Monday over a new law criminalizing most abortions in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy, saying the ban violates their religious freed...
Bishops at the Lambeth Conference have made a commitment to strive for justice, during a discussion on a Call on Reconciliation. On Tuesday the bishops heard how conflict and oppression has devastated...
A Catholic charity has given more than €5 million, (£4.1 million) in aid to Ukraine. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has donated the money in installments, over the course of the 6-mo...
A Christian charity is calling for more to be done to tackle hate speech after a Christian man and his son were attacked with a knife in Egypt. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) says Joseph Israel ...
Extremist groups are specifically targeting Christians in Nigeria. That's according to new research by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA), which has revealed Christians a...
Pope Francis will attend a meeting of religious leaders in Kazakhstan in September, the Vatican said on Monday, a gathering where he has said previously he hoped to meet with the Russian Orthodox patr...
Among migrant groups in the Gulf, Evangelical Christianity is blossoming, due to churches providing low-paid workers aid, after they face abuse, according to pastors and parishioners across the region...
The funeral service of the former Northern Ireland first minister David Trimble has been held in County Antrim. Among the mourners at Harmony Hill presbyterian church in Lisburn, were Prime Minister B...
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Rev Justin Welby is said to be "committed to ongoing dialogue" with the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GFSA) following controversy surroundi...
It's been revealed that Elvis Presley said a prayer before his performances to settle his nerves and to ask God to bless his concerts. In a new interview with the Observer, the rock n' roll le...
A leading bishop in Nigeria has blamed the country’s president Muhammad Buharri and his government for the country’s crisis relating to the “genocidal persecution” of Christian...
France has received a request from Canada to extradite retired Roman Catholic priest Johannes Rivoire so he can face a charge of sexual abuse from when he worked in Canada's North, a Fre...
