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A 17-year-old member of a dance squad with a local Greek Orthodox church opened fire at a Texas high school on Friday, killing 10 people, most of them stud Armed with a shotgun and a pistol, the...

A Church in Ireland dean who has a passion for camping has opened up his home to people needing supplies as Storm Ophelia closes in. Alistair Grimason in the County Mayo village of Cong has lent neig...

Church leaders in Australia have clashed with the country's prime minister over an alleged pledge for funding in the upcoming referendum on same sex marriage. PM Malcolm Turnball has rejected a claim...

A priest from a church near to the scene of a train crash in New Jersey has appealed for prayers for all those affected. More than 100 people were injured, some critically, when a commuter train plou...

A church elder who worked for UNICEF was one among a group of people recently killed in a violent ambush in the Central African Republic. According to World Watch Monitor, 66-year-old Gabriel Ole was...

Christianity and other religions are facing further backlashes from China as the country cracks down on faith groups as part of a campaign by the country's Comm A branch of the protestant Three-Self ...

A foodbank in east London has been overwhelmed with donations after thieves cleared out almost all of its supplies.  St Pauls Church in Stratford has taken in around £3,000 worth of food since ...

An Australian church has been forced to remove the word "Jesus" from its Easter signs because it has been causing offence. Elim Church in New South Wales paid for digital signs to be displayed at Eri...

The funeral will take place on Monday for an Irish nun killed when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador in April. Sister Clare Theresa Crockett, 33, died when a stairwell collapsed in the school...

Faith leaders are sharing messages of hope and love at the funeral of a black man who was shot dead by a police officer whilst his partner live-streamed the eve Philando Castile was shot during a tra...

Hundreds of people have gathered at a church in the United States for the funeral of Walter Scott - the black man fatally shot while running away from a white p WORD Ministries Christian Centre held ...

Mourners have filled a church in Michigan to remember the victims of a shooting rampage that left six people dead.  TV station WXYZ said First Baptist Church in Kalamazoo was filled to standing ...

Church funerals are due to be held on Wednesday for two of the police officers shot dead by a sniper in Dallas last Thursday. A service for Dallas Police Sergeant Michael Smith will take place at the...

Worshippers at church are used to being given envelopes to put an offering in but a congregation in Texas was left surprised after discovering their envelopes h Members at Preston Meadow Lutheran Chu...

A church in Alaska has given an extra slice to a pizza delivery man's wages by giving him a whopping $1,900 (around £1,200) tip. Ken Felber who has been working as a delivery driver for 14 years was...

A British great-grandmother, who was a regular churchgoer, has been named as one of five people gunned down by a former US soldier at a Florida airport. Olga Woltering, who was originally from Suffol...

A group of churches in South West France has offered to help in any way it can, after a crash that claimed the lives of at least 42 people. A bus, carrying pensioners who were out on a day trip, coll...

A church group had to be rescued by the National Guard in Texas, United States, as heavy rain spawned three tornadoes and dangerous flooding. It was the second day of turbulent weather in the state, ...

Locally grown peaches, pumpkins and plums are being given to survivors after another strong aftershock caused more damage to crumbled buildings in hard-hit Amat The US Geological Survey said the afte...

Two recent incidents of gunfire outside churches in northern Iraq reflect a broader campaign of "intimidation" against Christians in the country, it has been cl Men claiming to be part of a wedding p...