At least 80 schoolgirls who were kidnapped in Nigeria in 2014 were been freed in exchange for the release of Boko Haram suspects on Saturday. They were among 220 girls abducted from their school do...
Iranian authorities detained more than 100 Christians last week and ordered them to have no contact with religious groups such as house churches. The arrests, which took place in various cities acros...
More than 100,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org asking for a national holiday in the United States to remember Rev Billy Graham. The petition, which has a goal of 150,000 signatures, en...
The United Nations is formally agreeing the Sustainable Development Goals on Friday in New York. They follow on from the Millennium Development Goals in 2000 and more than 190 countries have voluntar...
The United Nations (UN) and Pope Francis have urged immediate action after at least 36 Christians were hacked to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Reports from the region suggest the pe...
Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini has said more than 50 churches have reported damage from historical tides in Venice this week. It prompted Venice mayor Luigi Brugnaro to close St Mark's S...
More than half of the top ten American Idol finalists this season are Christians. The front-runners were announced on Monday and six of them have used the US show as platform to share about their Chr...
Two more planes carrying victims of last week's aircraft disaster in Ukraine are due to fly to the Netherlands today. Yesterday the first 40 bodies were taken to Eindhoven air base and met by members...
International film star Morgan Freeman has been exploring how evil can exist in a Christian context in his National Geographic series 'Story of God.'Â Freeman, 78, has played God in the comedy films...
Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman says he has enjoyed working on a new project in which he has been exploring who God is. The 78-year-old, who has played God in the comedy films Bruce Almighty and E...
Morgan Freeman thinks God looks like him. The Shawshank Redemption star who played the part of God in 2003's Bruce Almighty and its sequel, Evan Almighty was recently asked by New York magazine's Vul...
The Government has blocked an idea to build Britain's biggest mosque, three times the size of St Paul's Cathedral. The 16 year battle has finally come to a head with the Government blocking plans b...
A poll's found most US citizens want greater restrictions on abortion. The Marist poll of nearly 2800 adults found 83 per cent of Americans said abortion should only be allowed only to save a mother'...
Most Irish people believe Pope Francis did not do enough to address clerical abuse during his recent visitd, researchers have said. The pontiff made his first papal trip to the Republic in August and...
A new study has found that most US pastors don't discipline church members who display sinful misconduct. The study by Lifeway Research which surveyed 1000 senior church leaders revealed that 55 per ...
More Roman Catholic priests and lay leaders were killed in Mexico than any other country in the world last year, according to advocacy organisation Christian So The charity said other denominations f...
The violent recapturing of Mosul may have come to its gritty conclusion, but for hundreds of thousands of Iraqis the desperate reality of being displaced far fr According to Christian charity, Tearfu...
An offensive has started to take back Mosul in Iraq, a city once home to hundreds of thousands of Christians. The city has been under Islamic State control since 2014. The militant group ordered beli...
Australian police have claimed a mother accused of murdering her two-year-old baby was found reading a Bible. According to Daily Mail Australia police found the unidentified 27-year-old last weekend ...
Mother Angelica, the nun who founded one of the world's biggest Christian media networks, has died at the age of 92. The famous sister founded Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) in a monastery ga...
