The director of a Cuban nursing home for elderly women has denounced the "disproportionate" targeting of the organisation after inspectors issued a fine of 200,000 pesos - approximately £80 - for fai...
A Canadian pastor has confronted health authorities and police officers for a second time this month after complaints had been made about his church defying coronavirus restrictions. Earlier this mo...
An Evangelical pastor has told Premier he will hold a second socially-distanced service in Phoenix Park, Dublin this weekend, despite religious services being outlawed in Ireland. On Sunday, Pastor ...
Church leaders and other faith figures have called for the coronavirus vaccine to be produced and distributed better. 145 religious leaders including former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Will...
There are fears that the sentencing of the British Iranian woman, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe could lead to a further clampdown of religious freedom in Iran. Ms Zaghari Ratcliffe has been sentenced to...
Many people in India are more concerned with starvation than coronavirus, according to the charity, Gospel for Asia. The charity's clerics and volunteers are co-ordinating aid to those in India mo...
The number of reported dead in India's coronavirus crisis is just the "tip of the iceberg" according to a Methodist Minister who works with some of the country's poorest communities. On Monday...
Christians in France are warning a bill passed in the Senate could see religious freedom restricted in the country. Commonly referred to as the "Anti-separatism law", the legislation was proposed by P...
Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church nine new priests on Sunday, encouraging them in an ordination ceremony in St Peter’s Basilica to be humble and compassionate and to stay close to the rank-and-f...
US president Joe Biden has formally recognised the systematic killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century as “genocide”. Mr B...
Sri Lankan police have arrested a prominent Muslim politician and his brother over suspected connections to the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in 2019 that killed 269 people. Rishad Bathiudeen, a form...
Christians in the UK are being encouraged to pray for “a spirit of generosity, wisdom and discernment for governments” as health experts in India are warning the country’s latest coronavirus wav...
For the first time, MPs in the House of Commons have declared China's treatment of the Uighur people and other religious minorities as genocide. It's believed more than a million people are ...
Pope Francis has urged participants in the US-hosted global climate summit to ensure that the post-pandemic world is cleaner, purer and preserved. Francis delivered a short video message on Thursday t...
Several church leaders have taken to social media to share their thoughts on the George Floyd verdict with an overall sense that justice has been served. Ex-police officer Derek Chauvin was found g...
Christians in Sri Lanka have commemorated the anniversary of the deadly bombings that left 267 dead and at least 500 people wounded. The attacks carried out two years ago by Islamist suicide bomb...
The Religious Freedom report (RFR) by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), has revealed almost a third of the world’s countries violate the right of religious freedom with more than five billion people ...
A man with a knife has wounded five people at a mosque in the Albanian capital Tirana, police have said, as investigators tried to determine a motive for the attack. Rudolf Nikolli, 34, entered the Di...
A 62-year-old Coptic Christian has been murdered by Islamic State terrorists in Northern Sinai, Egypt after being abducted in November. Nabil Habashi Salama’s abductors initially demanded a ransom e...
Faith leaders have reacted with anger to the outlawing of public Mass and other religious services in Ireland. Health Minister Stephan Donnelly signed a regulation last week making in-person services ...
