A priest in the west of Ireland is recreating a popular scene from the Father Ted television series in a bid to raise money for people affected by suicidal thou Fr John Kenny from County Mayo and bas...
The Vatican's honoured an Irish priest who saved thousands of Jews and Allied Soldiers during World War II. Fr Hugh O'Flaherty disguised himself from the Nazi secret police and set up safe houses for...
Ireland's Prime Minister has criticised his Hungarian counterpart over comments he made suggesting Europe's Christian roots would be overwhelmed by Muslim refug "One of the founding principles of the...
Voters in Ireland will be going to the polls in May to cast their vote on liberalising the country's restrictive abortion laws. The Irish Government has formally backed proposals to hold a referendum...
The Church of Ireland's General Synod will discuss a private member's motion for the church to apologise to gay couples. The synod will debate the topic at its meeting on Friday afternoon in Limerick...
The Church of Ireland's General Synod has voted not to apologise to gay couples who didn't receive support when celebrating their marriage. A motion at its recent meeting asked the synod to "acknow...
The victim is thought to have just completed the Way of Saint James, better known by pilgrims as the Camino de Santiago. An Irishman has drowned after taking a sunset dip in the sea at the end of a h...
The US military has confirmed an Islamic State (IS) chemical weapons expert has been killed in a air strike in Iraq. Abu Malik was described as a 'mid-level operator' for the terrorist group which ha...
Witnesses to an attack claimed by Islamic State, in which at least nine people were killed outside a church in Cairo, claimed residents and worshippers may have They said worshippers shut the church'...
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on churchgoers in Russia's predominantly Muslim Dagestan region. At least five people were killed and four others wounded when a...
An Islamic State defector has said he watched the man dubbed 'Jihadi John' behead a Japanese Christian hostage. The man, named only as Saleh, worked as a translator for Mohammed Emwazi in Syria and s...
The Catholic Archbishop of New York has said Islamic State is trying to "eradicate" the entire Christian population in the Middle East. Cardinal Timothy Dolan has also compared IS to the IRA, in that...
A woman taken hostage by Islamic State (IS) in Syria refused to renounce her Christian faith, even when facing death at the hands of a British jihadi. Kayla Mueller was captured by the terrorist grou...
A video has been released purporting to show the killing of a Japanese Christian hostage by Islamic State (IS). The White House said it could not confirm if the video was genuine but it did say it be...
The US Secretary of State has clarified that the use of the word genocide will not be removed from official documents by stating that ISIS is "clearly responsib Speaking ahead of the release of the 2...
 A poster depicts Washington Cathedral in flames with a machine-gun clad man in the foreground. The poster says: "Wait for us. We meet at Christmas in New York soon." The Cathedral, however, is in W...
Islamic militants in Egypt's Sinai region attacked a church on Monday, killing seven people, including a child, before storming a nearby bank and emptying its s The terrorists drove into the city cen...
Militants in Libya claiming to be part of Islamic State have kidnapped 21 Egyptian Christians. The group, which says it has links to militants in Iraq and Syria, put out a statement yesterday: "Urgen...
Tens of thousands of Christians are fleeing for their lives in western Syria, as Islamic State attempts to capture their town. According to the anti-persecution charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN...
The French church where a priest was murdered by Islamic State jihadists has opened for the first time since the attack. Two extremists stabbed 85 year old Fr Jacques Hamel to death inside the church...
