Pope Francis has apologised for hitting the hand of a well-wisher who grabbed him and yanked him towards her. In his new year wishes to the public in St Peter's Square, Francis confessed to losing...
Lois Evans, the wife of renowned preacher Dr Tony Evans, has died at the age of 70. She was battling a rare form of cancer and was surrounded by her husband and children as she passed away. Dr Evans...
The church member who killed a gunman who opened fire during a Sunday morning service in Texas has given details of the incident. Jack Wilson, head of security at West Freeway Church of Christ in Whit...
A Christian persecution watchdog has named Nigeria as a key country of concern for 2020 following the purported beheading of ten Christians on Boxing Day. A splinter group of Boko Haram produced a vid...
Pope Francis has encouraged families to take some time away from their digital devices over meal times in favour of face to face conversations, citing Jesus, Mary and Joseph as prime examples. Speakin...
A Christian anti-violence campaigner has called for Christians to take a stand against anti-Semitism in the wake of anti-Jewish incidents in New York and north London. Michael Smith MBE told Premier...
Christian US congressman John Lewis has asked for prayers as he announced he has advanced pancreatic cancer. The 79-year-old Democrat is the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights acti...
A prominent Chinese pastor who operated outside the Communist Party-recognised Protestant organisation has been sentenced to nine years in prison. The People's Intermediate Court in the south-west...
Two churchgoers have been fatally shot after a gunman opened fire in a church Texas church. The gunman was later killed by a parishioner. It happened at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlem...
US President Donald Trump has shared a tweet that suggests he’s “heaven sent” after former president Barack Obama “kicked Jesus out” of the country. On 28th December he shared a tweet from January 20...
Bethel worship leader Kalley Heiligenthal has posted short tribute on Instagram to her two-year-old daughter Olive who died unexpectedly two weeks ago. She wrote on Saturday: “Olive, we miss you, love...
Islamic State (IS) has released a video claiming to show its militants beheading 10 Christian men in Nigeria. The terror group said it was part of a revenge campaign for deaths of its leader Abu Bakr ...
Pastor Wang Yi, the detained leader of Early Rain Covenant Church in Sichuan province in China, has been secretly tried. According to Christian religious freedom charity China Aid, Pastor Wang was sec...
An US man who made more than 27,000 crosses to commemorate victims of mass shootings across the country is retiring. After 23 years, Greg Zanis came to realise that his Crosses for Losses ministry was...
Worshippers attending church on Christmas Day in northern France were taken to hospital with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning. People attending Christmas mass in Oise were taken in ambulances from ...
Christian Aid has drawn attention to the extreme economic damage caused by extreme weather in 2019. In its new report, Counting the Cost 2019: a year of climate breakdown, the charity highlights 15 of...
Police in Brazil are investigating a video on social media showing a petrol bomb attack on a production company behind a Christmas programme on Netflix that some critics have described as blasphemous....
After Christianity Today's editorial that said Trump should be removed from office, many preachers said they disagree. Mark Galli's editorial started: "It’s time to say what we said 20 years a...
The choristers at Notre Dame Cathedral are threatening continued strike action, meaning no midnight mass for the first time since 1803. The singers are protesting against the removal of five singing ...
Israel has announced that it will allow Christians in the Gaza Strip to travel to Jerusalem and the West Bank for Christmas. Until its notice just two days before the holiday, it was unclear whether I...
