A senior cleric from the Democratic Republic of Congo has accused the West of deliberately ignoring the extreme violence in the country. Fr Apollinaire Cikongo, executive secretary of the Catholic Bi...
A priest who was abducted by rebels from the Central African Republic last month has been rescued after an operation by the Cameroonian army. Soldiers freed Polish Catholic priest Mateusz Dziedzic an...
A priest and a number of churchgoers have been kidnapped by militants linked to Islamic State (IS) in the Philippines. The extremists forced their way into St Mary's Cathedral in Marawi, taking Pasto...
Angry parents in Italy have dressed up as elves in protest against a local village priest who apparently told children that Father Christmas is not real. Parents in northern Italy wore elf outfits an...
A priest in Maryland has apologised after videos surfaced online of him throwing mourners out of his church before the start of a funeral, after someone acciden Fr Michael Briese was recorded on nume...
The priest in northern Poland who led a public burning of the Harry Potter series and other books and items deemed by their owners as harmful has apol The Reverend Rafal Jarosiewicz published his a...
An Australian priest has apologised after saying a woman would not have been raped and murdered if she had more faith and was not out late at night. The unnamed priest originally made the comments ab...
A priest has apologised to the family of an American biologist after his 27-year-old son confessed to raping and killing her. Greek police identified the suspect of the accused crime, Yiannis Paraska...
A Catholic priest in Italy has been arrested after an 11-year-old girl that attended his church used her phone to voice record herself being allegedly sexually According to The Times, the girl, who ...
A priest arrested with cyanide in his suitcase in the former Soviet republic of Georgia is suspected of plotting to poison a senior cleric, prosecutors have sai Fr Georgi Mamaladze was detained at Tb...
A retired priest from Arizona has been arrested by police investigating the murder of a teacher and beauty queen in 1960. Irene Garza was last seen visiting Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, T...
An American priest's pleaded for the life of his murderer to be spared capital punishment in a letter he wrote 22 years ago. Fr Rene Robert begged in an official legal document written in 1995 that w...
Father Francois Murad was attacked by extremists at the monastery he was staying in after they accused him of collaborating with the Assad regime. The Vatican has confirmed a Catholic priest has been...
A Ugandan Catholic priest has been identified as one of the bodies found in a mass grave in Mexico last month. Fr John Ssenyondo had been missing since being kidnapped by gunmen six months ago.His ca...
Two people on trial accused of leaking Vatican secrets are engaged in a public battle against one-another. A Spanish priest, Fr Vallejo Baldo, 54, and a PR guru are caught up in accusations of sexu...
A US priest claimed he was trying to get revenge on God for poker losses when he collected child abuse images at his weekend home, according to his lawyer and c Rev Kevin Gugliotta was sentenced to b...
The Catholic Church is making the lives of gay people a "hell", a priest who was sacked for coming out as homosexual has claimed. Krzysztof Charamsa said the priesthood was "full of homosexuals" and ...
An Anglican priest has confronted the Australian Leader of the Opposition over comments he made about people who oppose same-sex marriage. Rev Ian Powell, who serves at St Matthew's Wanniassa in the ...
A Catholic priest has been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman on a flight in the United States. Father Marcelo De Jesumaria, who is based in Arrowhead, California, has been found guilty of ab...
A priest has been killed after two men stormed a French church armed with knives and slit his throat. Fr Jacques Hamel, 84, had served the community of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, south of Rouen, for ...
