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Nigeria's engineering regulatory body has said the church that collapsed on Sunday had many structural faults. Kashim Ali, the president of the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, a...

The Catholic Church shall "never again" cover up sexual abuse perpetrated by its clergy, Pope Francis promised during a Christmas address to Vatican officials o The pope used his annual speech to urg...

A 72-year-old man has been charged after a priest was stabbed in the neck in front of 100 parishoners at a church in Melbourne. Rev Tommy Kalathoor Matther, 48, needed urgent first aid from parishion...

A man's been charged with two counts of arson after seven American churches were torched in one month. David Lopez Jackson has been charged over the fires at Ebenezer Lutheran Church and New Life Mis...

A man charged with killing two nuns will plead guilty as part of an agreement removing the possibility of the death penalty, a Mississippi prosecutor has said. District Attorney Akillie Malone-Oliver...

A man has shot a woman, a new-born baby and a pastor inside a church in Alabama, United States. Police in the area have charged a man with attempted murder after the incident on Sunday morning at Oas...

A 46-year-old man has been arrested and charged in Mississippi, accused of killing two nuns. Rodney Sanders has been charged with two counts of murder.His arrest came after the bodies of Sister Marga...

A former Salvadoran colonel has been extradited to Spain to face charges that he helped plot the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests and two others in El Salvad The National Court in Madrid said Inoc...

An American man has been found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment after shooting a fellow churchgoer during a worship service. Mark Storms, 46, of Pennsylvania was convicted f...

A man's died and nearly 1,000 people have been injured after a Catholic procession in the Philippines. It's thought almost a million people attended the parade in Manila to celebrate the upcoming vis...

A man has pleaded not guilty to killing a Catholic priest at a church in the US state of Arizona. Gary Michael Moran denies fatally shooting Father Kenneth Walker, 28, and seriously assaulting Father...

A Christian from Zimbabwe is reported to have died after attempting to fast for 40 days and 40 nights, as Jesus did.  Khulu Reinfirst Manyuka is thought to have left his home for the wilderness ...

A 20-year-old man acting as one of the Three Kings in an Epiphany parade in Spain has died, after the throne he was riding in hit an overhead cable and fell fro The man, who's not been named, was tak...

A man has been convicted of the murder of his mother outside a church in Chicago. A jury found Michael Bassaly, 31, guilty of first-degree murder after deliberating for less than two hours.Mr Bassaly...

A 22-year-old man has been jailed for four and a half years after he was convicted of stealing royal funeral artefacts said to be worth 65 million kronor (£5.3 The Eskiltuna district court heard tha...

A bishop has said "things are getting worse and worse" in east Mexico after one of his parishioners was kidnapped during Mass.  The man was taken while celebrating the Eucharist in the church of...

A Spanish man was killed on Thursday after he was struck by falling masonry inside one of Florence's most iconic churches. The 52 year old tourist was visiting the Basilica of Santa Croce with his wi...

An investigation is underway after a man, said to be provoked by the biblical story of Daniel, was left severely injured after jumping into a lion's cage at the The 20-year-old survived the incident ...

A man charged with bringing petrol and lighters into a Manhattan cathedral has now been accused of having a clear plan to set the building on fire.  Marc Lamparello also had a flight booked to R...

A priest in Louisiana, US, refused to give Communion to a gay man at his own mother's funeral, it has been claimed. Tim Ardillo said he was waiting next to his mother's coffin with his young son to b...