Policing in some areas of England and Wales is inadequate, according to a new report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary Fire and Rescue Services. The report graded areas of each of th...
The police showed up two days after a Catholic clergyman at a church near the Nicaraguan capital Managua delivered a Sunday sermon in May that included a prayer "for our priests." The office...
A Christian MP in the new Finnish government has been given a fresh court summons over her trial for tweeting a Bible verse. Dr. Päivi Räsänen is a former Interior Minister and Christia...
Pope Francis will travel to Mongolia at the end of August, the Vatican confirmed on Thursday, indicating that his health is improving well enough after surgery to be able to go to the remotest area he...
A number of United Methodist churches in Southern California who wish to cut ties with the United Methodist Church (UMC) over its inclusion of LGBTQ+ leaders say they are being met with unfair departu...
Three leaders of Linfen Covenant House Church in China's Shanxi Province have been accused of forming a criminal "clique" and obtaining illegal income of approximately 780,000 yuan (arou...
Leaders of China’s state-controlled official ‘Three-Self churches’ have declared their “major task” of the next few years is to “change the face of world Christiani...
The Vatican will study the modern-day killing of Christians and try to list "all those who have shed their blood" in the name of Christ since the turn of the century, Pope Francis said on We...
Nicaraguan Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez was released from prison late on Monday, a diplomatic source said, marking a possible turning point in the government's prolonged crackdown on the Cathol...
A man believed by his attackers to have been ‘killed’ in India’s troubled Manipur state has emerged from a hospital morgue and says he forgives his Meitei Hindu attackers. Thangboi S...
Several thousand people gave their lives to Christ during this year’s SoCal Harvest Crusade, an evangelistic event organised by popular pastor Greg Laurie. The annual worship event gathered 32,0...
Americans should reconsider travel to China due to the risk of wrongful detention, the US State Department has warned in an updated travel advisory, with an American Christian identified among those f...
A congregation in France is recovering after their church building was vandalised in what is thought to be an anti-Christian attack. The pastor of the Philadelphia evangelical church in the city of Ma...
A diocese in the Church of Ireland is celebrating the appointment of its first female dean. The diocese of Derry and Raphoe, located in the counties of Londonderry, Tyrone and Donegal in North West Ir...
A far-right group that vandalised a church’s Black Lives Matter (BLM) banner in Washington DC has been ordered to pay over $1million ( (£787,000) in punitive damages. Metropolitan African ...
This week, a court in the British Virgin Islands will hear a legal case between a same-sex married couple and the BVI government over the validity of their marriage there. Kinisha Forbes and Kirsten L...
Pope Francis says the burning of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, has made him angry and disgusted. He said that he condemned and rejected permitting the act as a form of freedom of speech. ...
Pope Francis has named an Argentine theologian and prolific author who decades ago wrote a book on the healing properties of kissing to be the Catholic Church's new doctrinal chief, one of the Vat...
The Southern Baptist Convention has been dealt a blow after being told that North Carolina megachurch Elevation will be leaving the movement. It comes months after Rick Warren's Saddleback Church ...
Concern is growing for a pastor imprisoned in Vietnam over charges linked to his campaigns for greater freedom of religion in the country. According to religious freedom charity Christian Solidarity W...
