The ruling body of Norway's Lutheran Church has voted in favour of allowing gay and lesbian people to get married. A meeting of delegates passed the bill which will see gay weddings take place in the...
The Norwegian Catholic Church has been fined 1 million Krone (£94,000) for embellishing membership figures in order to receive more state aid. The Diocese of Oslo is accused of going through telepho...
Pope Francis is suffering from flu but there is "nothing to worry about", the Vatican has said. The pontiff confirmed he was feeling unwell as he was forced to sit down during his Christmas speech.Fr...
Notre Dame Cathedral has held its first Mass since the devastating April 15 blaze, although only 30 people were allowed to attend and the archbishop had to wear Exactly two months after a fire engulf...
A man has been shot and injured by police in Paris after attempting to attack an officer near the Notre-Dame Cathedral. Police said the officer used his weapon to shoot the attacker, who was then tak...
A modern restoration of Notre Dame would be the best use of the hundreds of millions of euros pledged for the immense project, rather than being "stuck with the Professor Stephen Murray, who co-led a...
The Notre Dame Cathedral is opening its doors to worshipers today, marking the first time since a devastating fire tore through its halls in April. The diocese of Paris announced that a mass will be ...
Paris' regional health agency is recommending that children under seven and pregnant women who live near Notre Dame Cathedral take a blood test amid concerns th The April 15 blaze sent tons of toxic ...
Religious statues which sit atop Notre Dame Cathedral have come down for the first time in more than a century as part of a restoration of the Paris c A 100-metre high crane lowered the copper stat...
Specialists shoring up fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral have returned to the Paris site for the first time in nearly a month. This time the workers were wearing disposable underwear and other protec...
Notre Dame's melted roof has left very high lead levels in the plaza outside the cathedral and in adjacent roads. Police in Paris said lead levels were found to be between 32 and 65 times the recomme...
The Vatican's representative to the United Nations has warned that the process of world nuclear disarmament is 'in crisis'. Archbishop Bernardito Auza told a UN session on nuclear weapons the 'incalc...
The number of hotels providing Bibles on bedstands has decreased dramatically over the past decade, a US survey has found. The survey, conducted by analytics company STR, found that the percentage of...
A nun in Slovenia has been removed from teaching after allegdly stabbing a boy in the hand to emphasise what Jesus might have felt on the cross. The Mirror reported that Sister Ludovita was teachin...
A nun working as a nurse caring for elderly people has been accused of telling an elderly patient to die. Sister Mary Olimma allegedly told a pensioner: "Why don't you take your medication you stup...
A Nebraskan nun has been told that she cannot wear her habit in the classroom because of a 100-year-old law created to appease the Ku Klux Klan. Sister Madeleine Miller, 37, a theology teacher, said ...
An underdog US college basketball team's winning run has come to an end, despite the divine intervention of their super-fan: a 98-year-old nun. As Loyola-Chicago left the court after an NCAA defeat t...
An Australian nun who had criticised the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's policies, including his brutal war on drugs, arrived home from the Philippines The nun, Sister Patricia Fox, aged 71...
A nun from Aleppo is visiting Scotland to give an eye-witness account of the struggle for religious freedom in Syria. Sister Annie Demerjian will talk about her work providing emergency aid and spi...
A high-profile nun has challenged the state governor of Arkansas in the United States to do "what is morally right" following his decision to schedule eight inm Sister Helen Prejean condemned what wo...
