Christian humanitarian workers say some help is getting through to Syrian families in need, amid a warning some aid is not reaching some besieged areas where fo The Unitied Nations envoy Staffan de M...
Cardinal Vincent Nichols has accused the government of an "arbitrary" approach to refugees fleeing the Middle East which is seeing from girls Iraq escaping Isla The prominent Catholic said some child...
null A senior Nigerian official has said 21 of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram, have been released.The country's government has not issued any statement and t...
The son of an Episcopal priest is in police custody, accused of murdering his parents and brother. Isaac Tiharihondi is alleged to have brutally killed Revd Dr Israel Ahimbisibwe, 51, Dorcus Ahimbisi...
A man arrested over fires at three black churches in Louisiana is the son of a sheriff's deputy. Holden Matthews, a 21-year-old white man, faces three counts of simple arson of a religious building.S...
The BBC has spoken for the first time about filming its popular Songs of Praise programme in a make-shift migrant church in Calais. Aaqil Ahmed, Head of Religion and Ethics at the BBC said that "the ...
Doctors treating the former South African President say that his condition is steadily improving. Nelson Mandela is celebrating his 95th birthday in hospital. South Africans are being urged to mark t...
The head of the Anglican Church in South Africa has said he is praying for justice, healing and forgiveness after Oscar Pistorius' conviction of murder. In an exclusive interview with Premier, His Gr...
A South African bishop has said the amount of corruption in the country amounts to a national emergency. Bishop Abel Gabuza of Kimberley was speaking as thousands of protestors demonstrated in Pretor...
Bishops in South Africa have welcomed the peaceful elections that have taken place across the country. The group said that the people of South Africa have shown they are "tired of corruption, maladm...
A South African church is to begin evicting over five hundred refugees who currently take refuge in the building. Over the past 15 years, Central Methodist in Johannesburg has housed the homeless who...
A South African police officer is recovering in hospital after being attacked by members of a church. Trouble began on Sunday when traffic officers attempted to tow away a car belonging to a member o...
South African athlete Oscar Pistorius' release from prison has been criticised by a pastor in the country who's told Premier it sends out the wrong message cons Pistorius is now under house arrest fo...
Judge upholds athlete's appeal against some of his bail restrictions, meaning he can leave South Africa if he gives notice. Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has had some of his bail conditions lifted - cl...
South Africa's ruling party suffered its worst election setback since taking power at the end of apartheid, just days after its leader said it would be in gover The African National Congress (ANC) lo...
Desmond Tutu has reportedly accused South Africa's President of spending unjustified sums of public money on a private estate and betraying those who struggled The Archbishop Emeritus, who led the t...
The Pope's midnight mass on Christmas Eve has been dropped by the state broadcaster in South Africa in a decision described as "disrespectful treatment" of the The South African Broadcasting Corpora...
Football in South America is asking the Vatican for help after it signed an agreement with the Holy See. The governing body of South American football, CONMEBOL, has had its last three presidents arr...
A church in South Carolina has had its 125-year-old windows broken as well as a pro- Islam message spray-painted to it, just hours after celebrating Palm Sunday The words "Submit to God thru Islam" a...
A church in the US will ordain transgender ministers. The First Baptist Church of Greenville, in South Carolina, has decided it will allow LGBT and transgender ministers to be ordained, after six mon...
