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A 500-year-old carol is being set to music for the first time as part of an exhibition about monks at the abbey founded to mark the Battle of Hastings. The recording will play at the exhibition at th...

A Church of England bishop has labelled the latest migrant boat sinking in which up to 400 people have died as "desperately sad". Bishop of Peterborough Rt Revd Donald Allister was responding to the ...

Marcilio Haddad Andrino is the man who led to the canonisation of Mother Teresa. The Brazilian's "miraculous" cure from a brain infection paved the way for the nun's sainthood this weekend.He said he...

The Archbishop of Canterbury and the pope have agreed to meet later in the year. The two global religious leaders will meet in Rome, according to a high ranking member of the Anglican Communion in Ro...

Bishop Eddie Long, leader of one of America's biggest churches, has died at the age of 63. He had been battling an aggressive form of cancer.His church said he was "now spiritually healed and home wi...

The lead pastor of a megachurch in Memphis, Tennessee whose pastor Andy Savage has been accused of sexual assault, has rebuked his critics, comparing them to th Chris Conlee from Highpoint Church spo...

American megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll has been removed from a church network he founded. Acts 29 terminated his membership because of what it described as 'ungodly and disqualifying behaviour'.Mr ...

The lead pastor of a megachurch in Memphis, Tennessee who publicly backed one of his staff who was accused of sexual assault has resigned. Chris Conlee from Highpoint Church had previously ...

A US megachurch pastor has been stabbed four times during a break in at his home. Matt Bentley was attacked with a knife on his arms, side and face during the assault at his Charlotte home.Reports su...

An American megachurch has responded to an accusation that one of its pastors sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl while serving as a youth minister, saying it Andy Savage, a leader of Highpoint Chu...

Actor Mel Gibson says he will be returning to tell the story of Jesus, twelve years since he made The Passion of the Christ. The actor and filmmaker created the box office hit in 2004 which recounted...

American actress Melissa Joan Hart has begun to take "religion seriously" in the last few years, signing up to Bible study and praying.  The 'God's Not Dead 2' and 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' st...

A mass is being held in France this morning to remember the priest who was murdered by Islamic extremists on Tuesday. Father Jacques Hamel, 86, was killed when two men stormed into his church in Sain...

Familiy and friends of the 150 people who died when Germanwings flight 4U9525 which crashed into the French Alps have attended a national memorial service at Co Around 500 relatives attended the ecum...

A Christian advocacy group has criticised authorities in Pakistan for allowing a man with mental health issues, who was forced to flee a mob of extremists who w It's claimed the extremists assaulted ...

The Sudanese Christian who was held on death row has left Rome to start her new life in Philadelphia. Meriam Ibrahim was taken to Italy after finally being released by Sudanese authorities last week....

A Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to death for allegedly turning her back on Islam has spoken in depth for the first time since she was fre Meriam Ibrahim was found guilty of apo...

It's hoped the Pope will bring a message of peace when he arrives in Chile on Monday to begin a week-long visit to his home continent of South America. His visit follows three days of violence in the...

The Met Gala has revealed it will have a Catholic theme for its 2018 exhibition. Guests will arrive to the New York annual fundraising gala dressed in their - or their chosen designer's interpretatio...

Two New York City churches that survived the destruction of World Trade Centre have become the latest tourist sites to embrace post-9/11 security measures. Metal detectors were installed for the firs...