Three MPs have visited persecuted Christians in Iraq. Jim Shannon, Chris Green and Mark Menzies met displaced people, clergy and political officials during their visit with the charity Aid to the Chu...
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has marked his 92nd birthday with lavish celebrations in the country, despite Zimbabwe being caught in an extreme drought.  The world's oldest head of power, who ...
But political opponents and foreign leaders largely stayed away, amid concerns last month's general election was rigged. Robert Mugabe has been officially sworn in as Zimbabwe's President for a new f...
A multi-faith peace rally will be held in Bradford on Saturday following the attack on a man who converted from Islam to Christianity. Wilson Chowdhry, from the British Pakistani Christian Asso...
A new museum hosting collections of Christian, Islamic, Jewish and Buddhist artefacts has been unveiled during a lavish ceremony in Abu Dhabi. The Louvre Abu Dhabi was officially inaugurated on Wedne...
A Scottish teacher who leads a multi-faith school in Israel has described it as a "bright light in a very difficult land". Margaret MacDonald spoke out about Tabeetha School in Jaffa to mark UN Inter...
A mother from the US has appeared in court after being accused of using a stun gun to get her teenage son out of bed for church. Sharron Dobbins, from Arizona, is said to have used the device after t...
A mother that left a newborn infant in baby Jesus' crib in a church nativity scene in New York said that she knew someone would be able to help her child. The little boy was found in the Holy Child J...
A pastor in Munich has urged prayer and tolerance after nine people were killed in Munich by a gun man. Police believe that the gunman who murdered nine people and injured 27 others including childre...
A murdered Albanian bishop is among 39 people to be beatified, the Vatican has revealed. Vincens Prenushi was imprisoned and tortured at the hands of Albania's former Communist regime after he called...
Pope Francis has cleared the way for slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero to be made a saint, approving a miracle attributed to his intercession. The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Francis h...
A Salvadoran archbishop who was assassinated whilst celebrating mass in 1980 has been named a martyr by Pope Francis. Oscar Romero died on 24 March 1980, aged 62, after being shot during his sermon i...
Islamic State militants raped and murdered US Christian hostage Kayla Mueller, according to two Yazidi girls and a woman who escaped from IS captivity. IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi also made the 22...
The Coptic Church has recognised the 21 men murdered by Islamic State in Libya as martyrs. The Egyptian men were beheaded by the militants group last week.Now the men will be commemorated in the Copt...
Attempts to retrieve the body of John Allen Chau from the Nicobar Islands have been halted. The American missionary was killed trying to evangelise to the Sentinelese, one of the most isolated tribes...
Two items brought back from the South Pacific by famed missionary John Williams who was battered to death and eaten by cannibals are being sold by his descendan A "Ula" throwing club - similar to the...
Four nuns killed when gunmen stormed a home for the elderly in Yemen are modern-day martyrs and victims of indifference, Pope Francis has said. The pontiff told the faithful on Sunday that the nuns "...
One of the five white police officers shot dead by a black man in a racist attack was a committed Christian who volunteered at his church. Michael Smith, 55, was a veteran officer who was once select...
Thousands of people have attended the funeral of Fr Jacques Hamel, the priest who was murdered in a terrorist attack in Normandy. A Mass was held at Notre Dame Cathedral in Rouen, close to Saint-Etie...
The papal visit to Ireland has ended up being a blessing for one well-known Dublin tourism spot. Visitor numbers to the National Wax Museum Plus in the Irish capital have swelled since Pope ...
