Mark Driscoll, the popular US pastor and author, is being encouraged to step down from church leadership following concerns that lessons haven't been learnt from past controversies. The 50-year-ol...
A new Gallup poll reflects that while Americans are less trusting of modern institutions than in prior years, Republicans continue to trust churches and the military more than Democrats. Every year, G...
Kidnappers who raided a boarding school in northern Nigeria earlier this month released 28 children on Sunday but another 81 remain in captivity, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for...
Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the 120-plus students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi. Church officials h...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has raised the age required to marry to 18Â making New York now the sixth state to ban child marriage. The vast majority of states in the United States allow for a minor ...
A married pastor in the United States has been arrested after allegedly drugging, grooming and raping a 15-year-old girl. The Christian Post reports that Brain Pounds, the lead Pastor of First Assembl...
The Vatican released information on its real estate holdings for the first time on Saturday, revealing it owns more than 5,000 properties as part of its most detailed financial disclosures ever. The i...
 People around the world are being encouraged to make extra efforts to visit and care for older people today as part of the Catholic Church’s first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. The the...
More than 18,000 people have signed a petition urging Pope Francis to withdraw an apostolic letter imposing restrictions on the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass. The Pope’s letter was issued...
The charity, Samaritan's Purse is offering spiritual support to those affected by the floods in Germany. Severe flooding and landslides rocked western Germany ten days ago as areas received recor...
Christians are being urged to pray for South Africa after more than 300 people were killed following rioting. Violence across the country broke out after former president Jacob Zuma began a fifteen m...
A nun living in the Syrian capital Damascus is warning that food shortages are now so dire in the country that women and children are having to scavenge in bins. Sister Annie Demerjian told the Cathol...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has ruled in favor of Cedar Park Church, proclaiming that the Evangelical church does not have to pay for employee's abortion coverage. In 2019, the s...
A 72-year-old Florida pastor facing federal criminal charges arising from the Jan 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump took part in a preliminary hearing on Thur...
Pope Francis will skip a Mass on Sunday that he had been scheduled to say before his recent surgery, but the Vatican said there was no cause for alarm and that it was part of normal convalescence. The...
Christians across the world are being called to unite in prayer for Japan as the country hosts the Olympics. The Games got underway with a muted opening ceremony in Tokyo on Friday; because of the pan...
A collection of faith-based organizations are encouraging Christian non-profits to seek out the orphans of COVID-19 and serve them well. The Faith to Action Coalition, a collection of faith-based chil...
Christian author and Instagram influencer Carlos Whittaker inspired his large following to bless a 66-year old pianist in Atlanta with more than $55,000. Tonee, an older African-American man, has bee...
A coalition of 60 religious organizations has written a public statement to President Joe Biden, requesting that he intervene in a land swap that could destroy a Native American sanctuary. In 2014, t...
Missouri's Christian ministers are pleading with state residents to get vaccinated, especially as the disease continues to find a foothold in Missouri. Missouri has had an extremely high infection...
