Reports that refugees fleeing to Europe have frozen to death should shame the entire continent, former Archbishop of Canterury Dr Rowan Williams has said. Dr Rowan Williams has spoken out after news ...
French police intelligence officers post-dated documents to cover-up errors that could have prevented jihadists from killing a Catholic priest in his church, a French news website Médiapart's said ...
A French cardinal has denied accusations that he covered up the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church in France. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin (pictured) has rejected calls to step down and ...
A French court has found top Catholic official Cardinal Philippe Barbarin guilty of failing to report accusations against an alleged paedophile priest. In a surprise decision on Thursday, the Lyon co...
A Catholic cardinal and five other people have gone on trial in France accused of covering up for a paedophile priest who abused boy scouts. The case is France's most important church sex abuse case ...
French investigators have questioned a prominent cardinal about alleged failures to report on suspected paedophilia by a priest under his watch, in the highest- Cardinal Philippe Barbarin was named i...
The most senior French Catholic leader is to face trial for failing to report child abuse, a court ruled on Tuesday. Archbishop of Lyon, Philippe Barbarin, along with six other priests, has been orde...
Starting on Sunday some Christians in France will no longer use the traditional Lord's Prayer.  A new version has been created so it does not seem like God leads people to commit sins.For decades ...
A French Christian has asked for Christians to pray for those affected by the supermarket hostage-taking and for them to support people through the gospel.  Police in France said three people hav...
The main Protestant Church in France has given its clergy the green light to bless the marriages of same sex couples. During its national synod the United Protestant Church of France approved the ref...
Town halls across France can continue to stage nativity scenes at Christmas, the country's top administrative court has ruled. Judges decided it was wrong to ban cribs from the buildings for "cultura...
A judge in France has refused to block the release in French cinemas of a film based on a Catholic sex scandal. French director Francois Ozon's movie Grace A Dieu (By The Grace Of God) won the Berlin...
A Muslim leader in France has suggested that unused Christian churches should have the opportunity to be converted into mosques in the country. Dalil Boubakeur, the rector of the Grand Mosque in Pari...
French police scientists and other expert investigators are starting to examine Notre Dame Cathedral for the first time since last week's devastating fire. A police official said teams from three dif...
It's been revealed that the French police officer who offered himself up to an Islamic extremist gunman in exchange for a hostage was a Christian. Col Arnaud Beltrame, 44, was among the first officer...
Pope Francis and French president Emmanuel Macron have held private talks at the Vatican, against a backdrop of European tensions over migrants. The two men spoke for nearly an hour in the pope's l...
The leader of France's right wing National Front party has pledged to ban all religious dress, including crosses. Marine Le Pen said steps were needed to stop the rise of extremist Islam.She said tha...
The Vatican has received a dossier that places French priest Jacques Hamel, who was killed by Islamists in 2016, on the path to sainthood. Dominique Lebrun, the archbishop of the northern French dioc...
Religious leaders in France have called upon the country's president to boost security at places of worship, following the killing of a priest in the region of Eighty-five-year-old Father Jacques Ha...
Details of alleged abuse at Christian summer camps have been revealed in a letter sent by John Smyth to parents. The barrister, who's been accused of abuse at camps in the UK, is reported to have wri...
