The Jesuit priest who presided over an inaugural Mass for President Joe Biden has been placed under investigation for alleged behaviours "which may be inconsistent with established Jesuit protocols an...
Legislators have voted to make Spain the sixth country in the world, and the fourth in Europe, to allow physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia for long-suffering patients with incurable diseases an...
The home church of a 21-year-old charged with the murder of eight people, most of whom were of Asian descent, has condemned his actions and has withdrawn his membership from the church as he “can no...
There are reports five men, at least two of whom are Christians, have been detained by the Islamist militia in Syria. CSW has learned that the self-named Syrian National Army detained the men in the t...
Persecution watchdog Christian Solidarity Worldwide is calling on state officials in Mexico, to intervene on behalf of four Protestant families who are at risk of losing their land in the central stat...
The family of an American pastor who was fatally gunned down last week say his murder was a case of mistaken identity. Pastor Kevin D. Nick of Higher Dimensions Church International was discovered sho...
Christians are being encouraged to pray for South Sudan as the UN has warned the country is facing "its highest levels of food insecurity and malnutrition" since it gained its independence in January ...
Pakistan's national Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) has announced it's starting a new initiative to bring an end to the growing crisis of Christian and Hindu girls who are bei...
A 21-year-old pastor's son arrested on suspicion of attacking three massage parlours in the US state of Georgia has told police that he carried out the shootings to protect himself from sexual te...
This week marks ten years since peaceful protests against Syrian President Bashar Assad's government erupted in March 2011, sparking a popular uprising that quickly turned into a full-blown civil ...
Police have arrested a 21-year-old man after eight people were shot dead in a series of shootings at massage parlours in the US state of Georgia. Robert Aaron Long was detained after four women were...
Israeli archaeologists announced the discovery of dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text found in a desert cave and believed hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly ...
The Vatican has decreed that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions because God “cannot bless sin”. The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issu...
Federal police have raided a church in Rio de Janeiro where a pastor previously prayed with his congregation for a Jewish massacre. Friday's raid saw literature confiscated as part of an operation...
Politicians in Republican-governed states are considering an array of tough anti-abortion restrictions they hope might reach the US Supreme Court and win approval from its conservative majority, overt...
A federal appeals court has ruled that a pastor, who says he successfully changed his sexual orientation through conversion therapy, can’t sue Vimeo for banning his account and removing videos focus...
The Vatican warned that it has nearly depleted its financial reserves from past donations to cover budget deficits over recent years, as it urged continued giving from the faithful to keep the Holy Se...
At least six people were admitted to hospital with serious injuries after a private prayer meeting in India's Chhattisgarh state was interrupted by a mob of around 70 people. The incident took pla...
Thirty-five leading aid agencies have joined to warn of the suffering and increased, irreversible, damage if the growing humanitarian needs in Syria are not met and a political solution is not found.�...
The leader of a prayer movement in the city of Thun, Switzerland, and her husband have died in a hiking accident in the Alps. Michèle Käch,25, was the leader of the Prayer House in Thun, a place w...
