After condemning a state-sanctioned crackdown on drugs in the Philippines as a "reign of terror", the country's Catholic Church has made a u-turn. An attempt by police to rebrand their controversial ...
A Christian campaign group says the Church needs to come together to protect vulnerable migrants taking dangerous trips across the Channel. It comes after a growing number of people have risked their...
Church Commissioners are calling on the gas and oil company Exxon to better-prepare for a low carbon future. Following the December 2015 Paris agreement, companies around the world are changing strat...
A Church is using a boat to sail people to safety after a deadly storm hit the US state of Louisiana, stranding more than 20,000 people. Major flooding has hit the area with the local governor warnin...
A church verger in Suffolk has been given a restraining order and ordered to pay hundreds of pounds after abusing an elderly woman. A church verger in Suffolk has been given a restraining order and o...
A video taken inside a small Texas church on the day a gunman brought carnage to a Sunday service shows some of the victims, including children, being An official said the video is consistent with ...
A Church reader living near to a French factory which has been attacked by a suspected Muslim extremist, has told Premier he is in shock. Police said a man was decapitated during the incident at a ga...
Church wardens have a leading role in keeping Christian places of worship safe in the aftermath of the Normandy attack according to a security expert. On Tuesday a priest had his throat slashed by tw...
Churches in Colombia have welcomed the signing of a historic peace accord between the government and leftist rebels. After half a century of bloodshed, Colombians have embarked on a new path to settl...
The Archbishop of Mumbai has said the Church will appeal against a verdict which found two men accused of raping a nun not guilty. Cardinal Oswald Gracias is speaking after a judge in the state of Ra...
The influential Catholic Church in Burundi has said it is withdrawing support for the upcoming elections in the country. Burundi's bishops said that "after considering the manner in which the electio...
Tributes have been paid to a part-time church worker who was among twelve people killed during a shooting at a busy bar in southern California. Noel Sparks helped with the children's activities at Ca...
A Church volunteer who had just returned from a mission trip to Haiti has been named as one of the victims of a triple shooting in Florida on Sunday. Sean Henry, 25, and his friends Kelli Doherty, 20...
The Church of Scotland has issued a welcome to Syrian refugees who have arrived in the UK. The first group of around 100 touched down at Glasgow Airport on Tuesday afternoon.Revd Sally Foster-Fulton,...
Christian, Jewish and Muslim congregations in Nebraska, US will share the same property in efforts to promote inter-faith ideals. Countryside Community Church (UCC), and The American Muslim Institu...
The Boy Scouts of America has officially ended its ban on openly gay adult leaders in charge of troops, however Church-sponsored Scout units are exempt on relig The new policy was approved 45-12 vote...
A Christian animal rights campaigner has told Premier that an endangered gorilla, which had to be killed after a three-year-old child fell into his zoo enclosur Samantha Chandler, from the Anglican S...
A statue depicting the fast food icon Ronald McDonald being crucified is being withdrawn from a museum in Israel following protests by Christians. Bosses at the Haifa Museum of Art had previously res...
Iraqi forces trying to drive Islamic State militants from a city which has historically had a significant Christian population say troops now have "full control The development follows news from an a...
Charity World Vision is raising concerns that South Sudan is descending in to civil war. The predominantly Christian South Sudanese were so full of hope four years ago when the country celebrated in...
