Pope Francis has held his weekly general audience in the privacy of his library as the Vatican implemented Italy's drastic coronavirus lockdown measures. Police barred the public from St Peter'...
A group of Anglicans have announced that a Christian woman and a member of Diocese staff have been kidnapped in Nigeria. Saratu Zubairu is the wife of Rt Rev Idris Ado Zubairu, the bishop of Bari in ...
The most senior Catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse has taken his appeal to Australia's highest court. Cardinal George Pell was sentenced a year ago to six years in prison for molesting tw...
A member of the Finnish Parliament and former Minister of the Interior, Päivi Räsänen, now faces police four investigations. Mrs Räsänen has served as an MP since 1995, was chair of the Christian Demo...
The Greek Orthodox Church has refused to amend its Holy Communion practice to protect parishioners against coronavirus, arguing that it "cannot transmit illness". The Holy Synod announced that it woul...
As Italy deals with a total lockdown, gospel opportunities are flourishing, says Italian Evangelical Alliance. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ordered people to stay home and seek permission for essent...
Several people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Washington DC and the surrounding area. Over the weekend a senior leader of a prominent Episcopal church was identified as the first person in the c...
Several German churches have pledged their support for preacher Franklin Graham ahead of his June preaching appearances, despite calls for him to be de-platformed. An increased level of opposition to ...
A group of US Christians have been quarantined in Israel due to the spreading of coronavirus. The 13-member team from 3Circle Church in Fairhope, Alabama, are confined to their West Bank hotel after a...
An unscathed copy of the Bible has been recovered amid the rubble after a massive tornado ripped through downtown Nashville last week. The text, which was unearthed by a group of volunteers from Tenne...
A number of statues and crosses have been taken from a Christian burial ground in Karnataka state, India. According to the local faith community, government officials forcibly removed the items after ...
Pope Francis did not deliver his usual blessing and remarks from a window in the Vatican on Sunday, in a move aimed at discouraging crowds amid the coronavirus outbreak. Instead, a video of him readin...
Wycliffe Associates has announced a new plan to train Bible translators in regions that face extreme Christian persecution. The US Bible translation organisation said there's a great need for peo...
The Chinese government has been accused of carrying out a summoning mission over Christians sharing or publishing information about the coronavirus outbreak. Li Wanhua, a pastor from Fengle Church in ...
A Christian charity which helps bring people out of poverty by giving them loans to invest in small businesses has expanded its operations to a refugee camp in Uganda. The Palorinya refugee settlement...
Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has offered to help rebuild the lives of 40 Christians who were imprisoned for their faith. The men who were acquitted last January after spending fiv...
Ravi Zacharias' wife has said her husband is having a challenging and painful recovery from surgery. The Christian apologist has an operation last month to correct issues with his spine. In an u...
Senior Pastor of multi-site Life.Church and a fellow pastor have been quarantined for two weeks after being exposed to the coronavirus at a conference in Germany. Craig Groeschel and Bobby Gruenewald ...
A Vatican spokesman has confirmed the first case of Covid-19 at the city-state, as did officials in the African nation of Cameroon. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said on Friday that non-emergency med...
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a French cardinal who was convicted and then acquitted of covering up for a paedophile priest in a case that fuelled a reckoning over clergy sexual abuse i...
