Rev Megan Rohrer has become the first openly transgender pastor to be appointed as a bishop in any major Christian denomination in the US. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) elected R...
A Palestinian Christian living in Jerusalem is urging Christians and the Church to speak out against the violence engulfing the region. Dr Salim Munayer was speaking to Premier in a week that airstrik...
Pope Francis has returned to doing audiences with the faithful in person after a nearly six-month interruption due to Covid-19. Francis greeted several hundred socially distanced and masked visitors i...
A Palestinian Christian living in Bethlehem has told Premier the current violence between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza is the worst she can ever remember. Rana was speaking as the United Nations M...
Four Christian men have been beheaded in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The attack on Tuesday is the second in the last six months, after four Christians were killed at a Salvation Army outpost in Sigi ...
One of the most popular churches in western Nigeria is warning against spiritual perfumes after a man died during a private prayer meeting. Â Prayer events normally include traditions such as sprayin...
A Palestinian Christian living in East Jerusalem is urging the international community to pray for reconciliation in the region. Katie Madanet was speaking in a week of heightened violence which has l...
Climate change is putting the much-loved British cuppa at risk as extreme weather and rising temperatures hit tea-growing countries, according to Christian Aid. The UK and Ireland drink more tea per p...
Church leaders in Jerusalem are urging the international community to pray for peace after violent clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protestors. A statement, by leaders of the city'...
Popular American televangelist Rev Ernest Angley, whose sermons were watched by audiences in the U.S. and internationally, has died. Rev Ernest Angley was famous for his healing ministry and running a...
The pastor of a church in the U.S. state of Oregon has decided to keep the building open despite an outbreak of coronavirus in the church. Peoples Church has been holding in-person services with no so...
A Canadian pastor who went viral for chasing health authorities and police officers out of his church whilst calling them 'Nazis' and 'Gestapo' has been arrested. Artur Pawlowski, le...
A house church leader in China has been officially arrested and charged after nearly seven weeks in detention.  Zhang Chunlei, an elder of Love Reformed Church in Guiyang in China's southweste...
Churches are opening their doors again in Ireland on Monday after nearly a year of a gathered worship being strictly prohibited. Church buildings will be allowed to have services again from 10th May...
An assistant pastor in Mississippi has died after his house caught fire when a small plane crashed into it while him and his family were sleeping. Gerry Standley, 55, was an assistant pastor at his ...
Christians in Colombia have taken to the streets to pray and worship despite a backdrop of political instability in the country. "There is prayer taking place in the streets, but also virtually. It ...
Tributes are being paid to a man in India regarded as the world’s longest serving Bishop. Dr Philipose Mar Chrysostom, the Metropolitan Emeritus of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, passed away...
Laura Lentz, the wife of former Hillsong church pastor Carl Lentz, has made her first public statement months after her husband was fired for "moral failures". "I have taken time away from social me...
US pastor and author, John Piper, has spoken for the first time about the late apologist Ravi Zacharias' scandal. Speaking on his weekly podcast, 'Ask Pastor John', he said he had been s...
The Bishop of Hertford says the world's wealthiest countries have a moral obligation to help vaccinate their poorer neighbours. Rt Rev Dr Michael Beasley was speaking to Premier as the G7 group of...
