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There's a final push for funding to finish renovations on the church commemorating where it's believed Jesus was born in Palestine. The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is a famous heritage a...

The financial administrator of a church in Ondo State, Nigeria has been shot dead. Local reports indicate Gabriel Kola Abiodun was killed on Thursday morning by gunmen suspected to be armed robbers a...

Nigeria's vice president-elect has said it is his new government's "priority" to find the missing Chibok school girls, who were kidnapped from their school in n Vice President-elect Oluyemi Osinbajo ...

A Finnish Christian MP faced a police interrogation on Friday as part of an investigation launched against her after she posted a Bible verse aimed at Finland's Democratic MP Päivi Räsänen was que...

A Christian Finnish MP is under investigation for criticising the Church for being an official partner of Helsinki Pride. Democratic MP Päivi Räsänen criticised the Evangelical Lutheran Church of ...

Human rights violations must be raised at the Singapore summit, says Christian politician. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are due to meet overnight UK time on Monday and a...

The survival of scores of Bibles following a major fire at a church has left firefighters amazed. Crews said "everything" inside Freedom Ministries Church in Grandview, West Viriginia ought to have b...

A fire has gutted an Orthodox church in New York just hours after worshippers left an Easter service there. Flames struck the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sava on Broadway at around 7pm on Sun...

Fire fighters in France are tackling a huge blaze at a 19th century basilica. Hundreds of worshippers had to flee morning Mass at Saint Donatien in the city of Nantes as the flames took hold.Revd Ben...

It is being reported that dozens of Palestinians have thrown fire bombs at a West Bank site revered by some Jews as the tomb of Biblical patriarch Joseph. Palestinian security forces put out the blaz...

The first ever Anglican choral evensong has been celebrated in St Peter's Basilica in Rome. The service featured an address, prayers and songs from the choir of Merton College, Oxford.It marks closen...

A new children's Bible is aimed at helping tens of thousands of indigenous youngsters in New Zealand read God's Word in their native language. Taku Paipera is the first children's Bible in the Maori ...

Beijing has made an agreement with the Pope to ordain the first Chinese bishop under a new deal to encourage good relations.  Priests and bishops in China need to be approved by the state a...

The Anglican Church of Canada has elected a female archbishop for the first time. The Church's provincial Electoral College selected Melissa Skelton out of three bishops to assume the church's highes...

Cuba's Catholics are to build their first ever church in the communist country since the revolution in 1959. The buidling in Santiago will be constructed as part of a major religious recycling projec...

Canada has elected its first openly gay Anglican bishop to its third-largest church.  Rev Canon Kevin Robertson says he is "overwhelmed" with the appointment.Mr Robertson has two children with h...

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip has struck southern Israel, in the first such attack since September, according to the Israeli military. AP says air raid sirens were sounded on Friday in the Eshko...

The first step towards declaring a Catholic priest - who worked with the sick and dying - a saint has been taken during a service in Dublin. The beatification of Fr John Sullivan at Gardiner Street C...

The trial of a former Archbishop accused of sexually abusing young boys, which was due to start at the Vatican on Saturday, is expected to be adjourned. It's after Joseph Wesoleski, the Pope's former...

An American man is among the first group of people to be targeted under new anti-evangelism laws in Russia. In July the country passed legislation banning the public from discussing their faith outsi...