The family of an influential 18th century preacher, who was buried in an American church that he founded, are fighting to have his remains returned to England. George Whitefield, one of the founders ...
Rev Wlliam Henry, the incoming moderator of the Church in Ireland, has been awarded with an honorary degree, as is tradition. The next Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Minis...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn features a Christ-like figure in a long robe and Converse sneakers. A Catholic Diocese in New York has launched a new advertising campaign which portrays ...
Two suicide bombers have attacked a church in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing nine people and wounding more than 50 others. Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister for the southwestern Baluchistan provin...
An American Episcopal Church bishop is being investigated by officials after she fatally struck a cyclist with her car and left the scene. Bishop Heather Cook returned to help the man she had hit wit...
A church in Pennsylvania has invited couples to bring their assault rifles in to be blessed. Members at the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in Newfoundland have been asked to attend the service...
The Church of England has issued the following prayers in response to the Paris terror attack. Compassionate God and Father of all, we are horrified at violencein so many parts of the world.It seems ...
The decision of a federal American jury to sentence a man who murdered nine Christians to be executed has reignited the debate around the death penalty. Dylann Roof was told he will face death for ki...
The leader of a Mexico-based church which claims more than a million followers has been charged in California with human trafficking and child rape. Naason Joaquin Garcia and a follower of La Luz del...
The vice-chair of the Italian Evangelical Alliance says the country needs to do it's homework on how to deal with the rising migrant problem. Leonardo De Chirico's been speaking to Premier as yet ano...
Fresh concerns are being raised over the welfare of Eritrea's Tewahdo Orthodox Church leader, who has been living effectively under house arrest for more than t Sources close to Christian Solidarity ...
The moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland has urged young people to read a new book on the Troubles to prevent a return to the dark days. Rev William Henry conceded that in the past Protest...
A proposed law to outlaw male circumcision in Iceland has sparked outrage among Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities. Although circumcision is widely done for religious and cultural reasons,...
A senior Catholic Church leader has expressed his sorrow of the amount of people that have been killed in the Syrian government's bombing campaign. Doctors in Syria's rebel-controlled suburbs of Dama...
Church leaders have expressed "grave concern" at the prospect of "almost unregulated" abortion being imposed on Northern Ireland from Westminster. Heads of the Church of Ireland, Methodist Church in ...
Haunting footage showing a young boy rescued from the rubble in the aftermath of a devastating air strike in Aleppo has provoked fury from a Syrian priest. The image of the stunned and weary looking ...
Church leaders in the Arabian Peninsula have asked Christians to pray for Yemen and all its different communities following the destruction of a church there. A Catholic church building in Aden has b...
Church leaders in South Africa have asked president Jacob Zuma to stand down from his role as leader. He was booed when he was giving a speech in Pretoria on Thursday as he left the council cha...
An Australian church leader has published his reasons for participating in the controversial consecration of a missionary bishop for Europe by the conservative An Australian Primate rebuked Archbish...
The detention of a young Methodist missionary in The Philippines for six weeks has been described as "unconscionable" by senior figures within the American Meth Tawanda Chandiwana (pictured centre) h...
