The daughter of an imprisoned pastor in China has publicly thanked President Donald Trump after he said Chinese President Xi Jinping was giving “very serious consideration” to the release of her f...
A bomb attack at a church funeral in Aleppo has been foiled, amid escalating jihadist threats against Christians in Syria. An object fell from the underside of a hearse as it entered the grounds of ...
A 21-year-old man from Manchester who died in 2018 is on the way to becoming the Catholic Church’s first Gen Z Saint. Pedro Ballester has been put forward for beatification and canonisation by the D...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is set to headline a faith rally on the National Mall this weekend that includes speakers whom experts have characterized as Christian nationalists or extremists. The...
Donald Trump has said China’s president is giving “serious consideration” to the case of Pastor Ezra Jin, founder of Beijing’s Zion Church (Beijing). Speaking after a two-day visit to China, T...
Three church leaders have been killed after being ambushed in the Indian state of Manipur. Four others are said to have sustained injuries. The ministers were among a group of pastors and church work...
Reform, the national magazine of the United Reformed Church (URC) has been renamed after people confused it with the political party Reform UK. The church said loyal readers had become tired of people...
Pope Leo has encouraged Christians taking part in Thy Kingdom Come to boldly share their faith, saying the gospel is “not something about which we can keep silent". In a video message marking the st...
An unknown thief snatched the 800-year-old skull believed to be of Saint Zdislava of Lemberk from a display box in a church in the northern Czech Republic and ran away with the relic, police said on...
Nesil Caliskan, the Labour MP for Barking has been appointed as the new Faith Minister. She succeeds Miatta Fahnbulleh, who resigned on Monday after calling for Sir Keir Starmer to stand down as Prime...
A UK-based Christian human rights group has called on the Mexican authorities to investigate the case of Benito Guevara Arcos, a Protestant missionary who disappeared six weeks ago in the Guerrero...
Christian college presidents are raising concerns over new federal regulations they say could cripple Christian higher education and penalize students pursuing careers in ministry and religion. Under ...
The new president of Costa Rica has entrusted her government “to God”, at a mass to mark the beginning of her time in office. Laura Fernández, who is Catholic, laid down her presidential sash b...
Two Israeli soldiers have been jailed for putting a cigarette into the mouth of a Virgin Mary statue in Debel, a Christian village in southern Lebanon. The soldier holding the cigarette received a t...
Gateway Church and its founding pastor, Robert Morris, have agreed to dismiss a civil lawsuit over Morris’s retirement benefits. It remains unclear whether Morris will receive any payout from the Te...
Many churches are not addressing the ethical implications of food, according to a survey of over 600 regular churchgoers in the UK. The study, carried out for the environmental charity Green Christian...
The number of people joining the Church of Scotland has nearly doubled since the pandemic, according to new figures. Over 800 people within the Kirk professed their faith in 2025, up from 428 in 2021....
The Vatican on Wednesday urged a breakaway Catholic group dedicated to the old Latin mass to cancel plans to ordain new bishops without consent from Pope Leo, warning the action would incur excommunic...
A priest serving near Bethlehem has been forced to leave his parish after Israel refused to renew his residency permit. Father Louis Salman, a Jordanian priest of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem...
A former Southern California televangelism landmark has been demolished after sitting vacant for several years. The Trinity Broadcasting Network headquarters in Costa Mesa, California, was torn down t...
