The Bishop of Truro has told Premier there will be no limit on the amount the Church of England is prepared to spend on its redress scheme for survivors of church-related abuse. Rt Rev Philip Mounstep...
The Vatican’s “Instrumentum laboris” – documentation to guide the upcoming General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops – has been published. The sixty-page working document ...
A missionary priest abducted in Nigeria’s Archdiocese of Jos earlier this month has been released. Father Marcellus Nwaohuocha - a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) - was...
There are fears Jerusalem’s Armenian community is under threat, following the controversial sale of a quarter of its land. 25 percent of the Holy Land’s Armenian quarter – which is h...
Grieving families in Uganda have been burying students killed in the massacre at Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School, which lies close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Twenty-one of...
A ‘complete collapse of the constitutional machinery in the State’ has happened in India’s troubled north-eastern region of Manipur, according to an assessment produced by Roman Cath...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday that he will invite Pope Francis to visit the Catholic festival of the Cirio de Nazare, which takes place annually in October in the nort...
Lebanon’s top Christian cleric said on Sunday the constitution and democratic system had been violated in "cold blood", during a failed attempt to elect a new president last week, and ...
Christian teaching assistant Kristie Higgs, who was sacked after sharing two Facebook posts that raised concerns about how transgenderism and compulsory sex education was to be taught at her son&rsquo...
An isolated community in Angola is celebrating after a plane landed there for the first time thanks to the completion of an airstrip. The complex 16 year project to build the airstrip at Cavango was f...
The founder and CEO of national Christian charity Transforming Lives for Good (TLG), Tim Morfin, has been awarded OBE in the King's Birthday Honours List. It's in recognition of his services t...
The Church of England has appointed its first transgender archdeacon. Rev Canon Rachel Mann has been made Archdeacon of Bolton and Salford, having ministered in the Diocese of Manchester for the last ...
The death toll from a Kenyan starvation cult crossed 300 on Tuesday, after authorities exhumed more bodies in a forest in one of the worst cult-related tragedies in recent history. Authorities sa...
Recommendations first set out in a Foreign Office commissioned review into threats to Christians around the world have been adopted by the UN Security Council for the first time. It was tabled by the ...
The West African nation of Mali stands at a momentous crossroads this weekend, with the future freedom of its Christians at stake, according to Malian Christian pastors. On Sunday (18 June) the nation...
The plight of persecuted Christians around the world is to be given particular attention by Italy, after the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, established a new ro...
The families of the three people killed in the Nottingham attacks this week have delivered grace-filled addresses at vigils in front of hundreds of people. 19-year-old students Grace O’Malley-Ku...
Pope Francis has been discharged from hospital, nine days after he underwent surgery to repair an abdominal hernia which was said to have developed painful scarring. Francis, 86, left Rome's Gemel...
Pope Francis has ordered Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, the private secretary and long-time aide of the late Pope Benedict, to return to his native Germany by the end of the month without ...
A Slovenian priest, who is one of the Catholic world’s most celebrated artists, has been expelled from the Jesuit order following allegations of sexual, spiritual and psychological abuses agains...
