A Catholic centre in Vienna is offering a free walk-in Christian tattoo service in a bid to shake the “prohibiting and rejecting” view of body art from the Church. Guests will be invited t...
Results from elections last week to provincial councils and the Netherlands’ Senate have been declared, with a new party, the Citizen Farmers Movement (BBB), raking in votes from traditional Chr...
A regime crackdown against protestors in Iran unhappy with the strict interpretation of Islamic law may have brought violations of international human rights, according to a UN special expert. Special...
Pastor Alan Keung, founder of independent news outlet Free HK Media has been sentenced in Hong Kong to eight months in prison for promoting ‘seditious’ content. Hong Kong's recently re...
International development agency Christian Aid has urged the UK government to take immediate action in response to a report revealing that an estimated 43,000 people died during the longest drought on...
Rupert Murdoch's new wife-to-be, Ann Lesley Smith, has described their relationship as a "gift from God," as the couple announced their engagement. The former police chaplain met the bil...
Two prominent Cardinals have called for Germany's Roman Catholic bishops to be put on trial in a church court, for abandoning church doctrine. It follows a decision of a synod of German bishops to...
Spain is in the grip of a long-term drought after 36 months of below-average rainfall, with some parts so parched that officials have asked people to cut water use and meteorologists warn of wors...
A Catholic girl in Pakistan, who was raped and forced to convert to Islam by her kidnapper, has spoken out about her harrowing ordeal. 14 year old Kinza Sindhu was abducted from her home in Lahore by ...
Churches in Rotherham have partnered with Church Mission Society (CMS) to set up a social supermarket - a community hub where members can do their weekly shop for three pounds. It operates through ref...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has paid tribute to the Pope on the tenth anniversary of Francis’ inauguration. In a statement released by Lambeth Palace, Most Rev Justin Welby said : “...
Pope Francis says he supports ‘humanitarian corridors’ to bring refugees to Italy and other European countries. He was speaking while meeting hundreds of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, ...
A Christian theology lecturer has been sacked and threatened with a counter-terrorism referral by a Methodist bible college for a tweet on human sexuality that went viral. Dr Aaron Edwards, 37, who is...
The Diocese of Portsmouth has apologised to families after removing items from graves at a church on the Isle of Wight. It follows complaints by a mother who discovered sentimental items had been...
The Kremlin said on Friday (March 17) that Ukraine was "illegally attacking" the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) - which until recently accepted the authority of the patriarch of M...
The Chair of charity Faith in Later Life is urging the government to do more to address the country's lack of carers. Stephen Hammersley was speaking to Premier after the latest figures show Engla...
The human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger is challenging the President of Nicaragua to prove that a Catholic Bishop imprisoned for 26 years in the country is alive. In a video posted on Twitter Ms Jag...
A star US footballer has left his social media followers in tears after videos emerged of him preaching at a maximum security prison. Quarterback for the Denver Broncos, Russell Wilson is a devout Chr...
A Uyghur Christian, Alimujiang Yimiti, from Kashgar in China’s north-west Xinjiang province has been released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence. According to Texas-based China Aid Ass...
Churches Together in England (CTE) are encouraging Christians from all traditions to join daily prayers for the King and the nation between Easter Day and May 6th. A statement released by the Presiden...
