Hollywood star-turned environmental campaigner Arnold Schwarzenegger said it was a "great honour" to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican. The former governor of California attended the pontiff's General...
A scientific journal has withdrawn a research paper on the human hand because it repeatedly suggested the existence of a "Creator". The paper, called 'Biomechanical Characteristics of Hand Coordinati...
Scientists have claimed that they have found illustrations for ancient home remedies in a document that contained the first known copy of the gospels in Arabic. Researchers from the Early Manuscripts...
400 priests are expected to attend a special screening of a Christian film at the Vatican that has been 27 years in the making. Martin Scorsese's film, Silence, tells the story of two 17th Century mi...
Seven of Scotland's top church leaders have urged the home secretary to grant asylum to a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan. Figures including Rt Rev Susan Brown (pictured below), th...
Scottish MSPs in the Freedom of Belief group have called for Asia Bibi's hearing to go ahead soon. Asia Bibi is a Christian woman, imprisoned since 2010 for blasphemy against the Islamic prophet Muha...
A London church will be taking in refugees, following an announcement by the Vatican saying that that it will take in two refugee families fleeing war or hunger The Pope called on Catholic parishes, ...
Around 200 migrants are feared dead as authorities collect the bodies of victims who drowned off the Libyan coastal city of Zuwara. Elsewhere, three people have been arrested in connection with the d...
A sculpture of Satan planned for a Spanish city has been criticised for being too jolly. 5,400 people, more than ten per cent of the residents in the city of Segovia have signed a petition calling fo...
Ten Indonesian sailors held captive by terrorists in the Philippines for five weeks are being supported by chaplains following their release. The seafarers were released on May 1 after being kidnappe...
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer finally got to meet the pope after being left off a list of White House officials who had the chance to meet Fran Mr Spicer attended an audience with Po...
Benedict the 16th announced that he was retiring yesterday, surprising even his closest aides. The successor to the Pope needs to build on the work Benedict XVI did in his attempts to bring peace to ...
A second Coptic Christian has been murdered in the Sinai region of Egypt in a week. According to AP, Gamal Tawfiq, 50 and a Christian schoolteacher, was shot by two gunmen on a motorbike as he was wa...
A missionary has been shot dead in Cameroon during the second killing of its kind in less than one month. Fr Cosmas Omboto Ondari was standing outside his church in the South West region on Wednesday...
The second man who murdered a priest at a church in Normandy on Tuesday has been named as a French teenager. Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean was identified by DNA tests as the other individual responsibl...
Urgent prayer is being requested as the second church this month is demolished in Sudan. Christians in Sudan have asked for prayer as the authorities' continue to demolish in Khartoum. On May 17th, t...
Secret Christians in Muslim countries are struggling to keep their faith hidden in Saudi Arabia during Ramadan. Christian charity Open Doors have found that the secretive believers - who face punishm...
Letters between Pope John Paul II and a married woman have been uncovered. The documents appear to show a 30-year long loving relationship between the now saint and Polish-born American philosopher A...
A religious anti-persecution charity has accused the Pakistani government of covering up a sectarian attack on a Christian boy, which has reportedly left the te According to CLAAS-UK, 14-year-old Nau...
Police in France are increasing security at churches amid fears of an Islamist attack on the Feast of the Assumption. Security had already been stepped up at France's 45,000 Catholic churches followi...
