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Anselm Bilgri, a former monk and prior at one of Germany's most famous monasteries, had to leave the Roman Catholic Church to wed his long-term male partner. Now he hopes their wedding within a br...

Prayers are being said across Ireland for the victims of Friday's explosion at a petrol station in Donegal. Ten people including a teenage girl, shop worker and mother and son died when the blast ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury has joined the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales in expressing concern at the potential for the British embassy in Israel to be moved from Tel Aviv to the c...

One of the UK’s biggest Christian festivals is facing a £70,000 shortfall after its 2022 season. Creationfest is a free event which takes place in Cornwall across four days every August. O...

China has intensified its crackdown against Christians and churches according to International Christian Concern. In its latest report,the watchdog details growing Christian persecution across the cou...

Christian parents are calling on the Church of England (CofE) to urgently abandon transgender guidance which says that children as young as five should be affirmed if they want to identify as the oppo...

Church leaders in Ireland are among those paying tribute to the community and emergency services after an explosion at a petrol station in County Donegal left nine people dead.   The se...

An Episcopal priest will tithe ten per cent of his winnings after participating in ‘Jeopardy!’ a popular TV game show in the US. Rev David Sibley, rector of St Paul’s ...

A church in Belarus has been banned from holding services and meetings in its car park following the closure of its building by local officials.  Last month, its lead pastor, Vyachevslav Gon...

Thousands of people are flocking to cathedrals and churches to visit the relics of the Lourdes visionary St Bernadette. The relics - which are part of the physical remains of a saint after their death...

The Irish Bishops’ Conference has called for Catholics to lobby against poverty during the cost of living crisis. At its Autumn General Meeting this week in Saint Patrick’s College Maynoot...

The FBI has arrested a pastor for his alleged involvement in the US Capitol riots last year.  William Dunfee, a 57-year-old pastor from Frazeysburg, Ohio was charged with felony and misdemeanour ...

A bishop in Mozambique has revealed that extremists disguised in military uniform gathered a crowd of people together, before separating the Christians and slitting their throats. Speaking to Catholic...

A Texas inmate at the center of a legal battle over religious rights of condemned prisoners in the United States was put to death on Wednesday for the 2004 stabbing murder of a convenience store clerk...

The Church of England's safeguarding has been slammed as "at risk of failing others in the future" unless there are "significant changes." That's the finding of a review ac...

Andrew Thorburn resigned as chief executive of Australian Football League club Essendon a day after his appointment following an immediate backlash over his links to a church that expressed ...

The Catholic Church in Portugal has apologised for the hurt caused by decades of alleged abuse and cover-up. During Sunday mass, the Archbishop of Lisbon urged people not to lose faith in the church.&...

Pomeranians Michi and Mochi were among 15 four-legged couples that tied the knot at a pet wedding ceremony in the Philippines on Sunday that was held along with a special blessing of pets to mark Worl...

The Vatican on Thursday acknowledged that it had secretly disciplined East Timor bishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Carlos Ximenes Belo two years ago, responding to allegations that he sexually abuse...

A church in Florida sheltering mostly elderly congregants from Hurricane Ian has continued its services, despite suffering substantial damage. The pastors at the Southwest Baptist church in Fort Myers...