The Nigerian government has revealed efforts are underway to secure the release of Leah Sharibu. The Christian teenager was one of 110 girls abducted in 2018 by the Nigerian faction of terror gr...
A new law on the personal legal status of Christians in Egypt is soon to be approved in the country, the Vatican News has reported. The draft law will be discussed shortly after Parliament opens ...
A Chinese bookshop owner will be jailed for seven years for selling Christian books - mainly Bibles. Chen Yu, the owner of Wheat Bookstore was sentenced in Linhai City Court, in the Zhejiang pro...
There are calls for immediate action to be taken to ensure the safety of Christians in Jerusalem following ongoing attacks by radical groups. It comes after the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem a...
The chief executive of the Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) has welcomed the first pig-heart transplant on human beings carried out in the US. Terminally ill patient, David Bennett has become the fi...
A Christian man has been sentenced to death by hanging by a judge in Pakistan. Zafar Bhatti, who was already serving a life sentence for blasphemy charges, has had his penalty increased to death by ha...
The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem has accused radical Israeli groups of threatening the presence of Christians in the holy city, in remarks that Israeli officials rejected as baseless. In a co...
Pope Francis on Monday condemned "baseless" ideological misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines, backing national immunisation campaigns and calling health care a moral obligation. Francis sp...
The World Evangelical Alliance has called for an immediate end to the violence in Kazakhstan. It comes as the Pope says he is praying for the victims of the unrest. More than 160 people have been kill...
The Pope has baptised 16 babies in the Sistine Chapel in Rome to mark the Feast day that recalls Jesus’ baptism in the River Jordan. The 9 girls and 7 boys are all children of Vatican employees ...
The charity CSW (Christian Solidarity Worldwide) is calling on the Chinese authorities to urgently withdraw planned regulations on online religious information, which it says could have a devastating ...
It’s emerged that a ransom was paid to secure the release of 17 American and Canadian missionaries who were taken hostage by a gang in Haiti in October. The group including an eight-month old ba...
MPs are stressing the need for urgent action to help prevent genocide in Afghanistan. At a debate in Westminster Hall the All Party Parliamentary Group on International Freedom of Religion or Bel...
A leading Catholic charity founded by Mother Teresa has had its access to foreign funds restored by the Indian government. In December, the government rejected the Missionaries of Charity's applic...
A Catholic charity says it's delighted that Facebook has suddenly lifted restrictions imposed against its work. Charity, Aid to the Church in Need, had been running a campaign on the site calling ...
UK Friends of the Holy Land - a Christian organisation completing relief work in the Middle East - are urging people to visit the Holy Land as communities struggle to make ends meet during the pandemi...
Flanked by dancers and live camels the Three Wise Men paraded down Madrid's central avenue atop glittering floats on Wednesday evening as traditional Epiphany celebrations returned - with re...
Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has urged athletes to think carefully about boycotting the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Discussion continues to build in the lead-up to the...
Prisoners who find God in jail are no less likely to reoffend that those who have a religion, a new study has revealed. After an analysis of 174 inmates, the study found that religion was not an affec...
Pope Francis has described religious persecution as not only intolerable but crazy. In this month’s The Pope Video, supported by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the Pontiff hits out at the pres...
