A priest from India has lost an appeal against extradition to the United States to face charges of sexual abuse. Fr Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul was accused of abusing a teenage girl whilst working in t...
Fr Tom Uzhunnalil met with Pope Francis one day after his release from captivity. Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, reports that the pope welcomed Fr Tom at his residence on 13th September.It ...
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made a commitment to protect Christians and other religious minorities, after a spate of recent attacks in the capit Since December last year, there have b...
The leader of the Catholic Church has prayed for the victims of Friday's train accident in India that killed at least 58 people, including children. In a message sent on Sunday, Pope Francis offered ...
An Indian Christian organisation is calling for criminal action against the people responsible for calling Jesus a 'demon' in a school textbook. The Indian Christian Voice (ICV), an organisation repr...
Indonesia's Christian leaders have called upon the country's president - Joko Widodo - to tackle Islamic extremists who target religious minorities. The Christian leaders are particularly concerned...
A married couple who were involved in the bombing of three Indonesian churches in May last year have been sentenced. Agus Satrio Widodo faces eight years in prison while his wife Damayanti was given ...
Police have been deployed to guard the construction of a church in Indonesia after protestors turned violent at the site last week. Members of  the group Bekasi Muslim Friendship have objected to th...
A Catholic international development organisation says relief workers responding to a strong earthquake which has left 97 people dead in Indonesia are focused o The Catholic Agency for Overseas Devel...
The brother of a Christian convert executed by firing squad in Indonesia has said the country's legal system is "flawed". Andrew Chan, 31, an Australian, became a Christian whilst serving ten years b...
The blasphemy trial of the Christian governor of Jakarta, Basuki Purnama, began in Indonesia today. According to court reporters Purnama broke down in tears as he denied allegations that he had insul...
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the former governor of Jakarta known popularly as 'Ahok', has been released from prison after serving his two-year sentence for insultin He was released three months.The polit...
It's election day for the Christian governor of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, whose campaign's been marred by blasphemy charges and hate speech. Basuki Tjahaja 'Ahok' Purnama's currently on trial a...
An Australian who is facing death by firing squad in Indonesia has married a pastor just days before he will be killed. Andrew Chan, 31, is one of nine people due to be executed by Indonesia for drug...
Indonesian police fired tear gas in order to disperse a group of hard-line Muslim protesters outside a church in Bekasi, Indonesia. According to the Associated Press, several hundred protesters from ...
Christians in Indonesia are hoping president Joko Widodo's re-election will lead to better treatment of people in the country, regardless of the faith of the lo The Election Commission said Mr Widodo...
An Indonesian Islamic State sympathiser who carried out an attack on a church that killed a two-year-old girl and injured three other children was jailed for li The attacker, known only as Juhanda, w...
An Indonesian teenager has survived 49 days adrift at sea after the wooden fish trap he was employed to mind slipped its moorings. Aldi Novel Adilang said he ran out of food within a week and surviv...
The Christian music industry is grieving the loss of Bill Hearn who has died aged 58 in Texas, after being diagnosed with cancer. He passed away in Nashville, the same city where he had served as Chi...
A Roman Catholic exorcist has described Harry Potter and yoga as "evil" has died in Rome at the age of 91, following a long illness. Rev Gabriele Amorth passed away at a hospital in the Italian capit...
