One of China's most senior Catholics has said Pope Francis is "betraying Jesus" by attempting to strike a deal with the country's government "at any cost". Cardinal Joseph ...
The former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese has described Pope Francis as a "lovely person" but suggests he carries a "residual element of misogyny" that sto "There is a blindness here that comes ...
Catholic women have urged Pope Francis to give women a greater voice in Catholic Church decision-making, warning they are leaving the church in droves because i Former Irish president Mary McAleese, ...
Faith-based objections have no place in the secular same-sex marriage debate in Northern Ireland, the son of former Irish president Mary McAleese said. It is the only part of the UK in which what cam...
Israel's held the burial service of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at his family ranch in the Negev desert. The funeral of the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has taken place following...
An American mafia-enforcer turned pastor has married his pregnant girlfriend with the consent of his wife. Thom Miller, from Mansfield in Ohio, found God during his time in prison and has been marrie...
A former policeman at LAPD has been charged over the fatal shooting of a Catholic missionary earlier this year. An arrest warrant was put out for Henry Solis back in March after Salome Rodrigue...
The former leader of Catholics throughout the world, Emeritus Benedict XVI has been speaking out about his friendship with Pope Francis. He said "obedience to my successor has never been a ques...
Benedict XVI has said the existence of Christianity in Europe is under threat, in a new book about his life. The former pontiff has been chronicled in Ultime Conversazioni, or "Last Conversatio...
Bush senior has been remembered in Texas. Country music's Oak Ridge Boys, among the president's favourites, sang Amazing Grace and Reba McEntire offered The Lord's Prayer as three days of offic...
Two former Rwandan mayors have gone on trial in Paris for allegedly inciting and leading a mass killing in a church during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Tite Barahirwa, 64, and Octavien Ngenzi, 58...
Former US President Jimmy Carter taught a Bible lesson on life after death less than two weeks after breaking his pelvis in a fall. The 95-year-old Democrat used a walker to enter the Maranatha Bapti...
Jimmy Carter has said he will continue to teach Sunday school at his local church despite revealing cancer that was first discovered as a tumour on his liver is The former US president said at a news...
The church that former US president Jimmy Carter is a member of has encouraged people to pray for him after he had surgery to relieve pressure from brain bleedi A spokeswoman said there were no compl...
A priest in a South Carolina church has reportedly denied Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden communion because of his views on abortion. The former vice president and Catholic attended Saint ...
A former pastor of Willow Creek has spoken publicly for the first time since his resignation was prompted by misconduct claims against the Chicago megachurch's Steve Carter said he become physically...
Former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) star Matt Cappotelli "went home to be with Jesus" after losing a year-long battle with cancer at the age of 38, his w In an emotional message to supporters,...
A former-slave from the United States who was blinded in one eye as a child at the hands of a slavemaster could be made a saint. The decision to consider Julia Greeley for canonisation was announced ...
American media outlets are reporting that police are investigating claims Whitney Houston's daughter may have been attacked before being found unconscious in a It's been suggested Bobbi Kristina had...
Italian police have arrested four people suspected of plotting an attack on Pope Francis. The police, working alongside their counterparts in Kosovo, arrested four people from Kosovo according to The...
