US President Barak Obama is being urged to raise the issue of religious freedom as he prepares to attend the G20 meeting of global leaders in China. The rights of religious groups, particularly ...
The US President has sung Amazing Grace to mourners at the memorial service of Revd Clementa Pinckney, the pastor who was killed in the Charleston massacre. Barack Obama delivered a eulogy for his fri...
United States President Barack Obama will tonight attend the funeral of a pastor who was one of nine people shot dead at a black majority church. The president and his wife, First Lady Michelle, will ...
President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy at the funeral of a pastor killed during a mass shooting at a church in America. Revd Clementa Pinckney was one of nine people shot dead at the black Ema...
An advocacy charity's calling on world leaders including Barack Obama to speak out against Christian persecution in Laos during a summit there. Speaking as the US President joins the Association o...
Barack Obama is being urged to intervene in the case of a Cuban church leader reportedly threatened with arrest after his church was forcibly demolished. Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), which pr...
A Christian anti-persecution charity has told Premier that President Obama's visit to Vietnam has raised more awareness about the treatment of Christians there. Tania Corbett from Open Doors has s...
Authorities in north-west Pakistan have made a U-turn on their decision to shut down house churches for "security reasons". According to Christian charity Barnabus Fund, local officials in Abbottabad...
Journalists at the scene of a church in southern Nigeria which collapsed killing 160 people say people were trying to stop them documenting the incident. Reporters at the Reigners Bible Church in Uyo...
A week after gospel singer Edwin Hawkins died, his most famous song, 'Oh Happy Day', increased sales by 999-per-cent. Edwin Hawkins died on Monday 15th January from pancreatic cancer at the age of 74...
Ohio lawmakers have passed a bill to ban abortion from as early as the sixth week of pregnancy. The bill - deemed the "heartbeat bill" - would ban abortions in Ohio from the moment a heartbeat can be...
The Ohio House of Representatives passed a bill last week to protect students' rights to religious expression in education settings. The law will reportedly prevent pupils from being marked down in t...
Former US football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole after convincing a parole board that he has repented after more than eight years in prison Simpson, 70, could be released as earl...
The oldest priest in the world has celebrated his 107th birthday. Fr Jacques Clemens took Mass at St. Benedict's Church (below) in Nalinnes in south-eastern Belgium up until last year.He ministered a...
A figure skater says she immediately began praying when a fastening on her dress came undone during a performance at the winter Olympics in South Korea. Gabriella Papadakis was competing with her par...
An international Catholic charity is warning that Brazil's indigenous communities are being forgotten and left behind because of the Olympic games. CAFOD's Brazil Programme Officer said: "Indig...
The trial of two pastors in Sudan has heard more 'evidence' against the Christian leaders. Rev Hassan Taour and Rev Kuwa Shamal are facing the death penalty, accused of crimes against the ...
An extra €1 billion euros have turned up on the Vatican's latest balance sheet in net assets that had never been reported before. The 2014 budget is the first since major reforms of the Holy See's ...
One person is dead and churches and homes were set on fire during an attack in the southern Kaduna State in Nigeria. According to anti-persecution charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) the att...
One worshipper has been killed and dozens injured after a church collapsed in southern Nigeria. Delta state police spokesman Andrew Aniakama said St Paul Catholic Church in Adagbrasa collapsed m...
