For decades, complaints of sex abuse by pastors and staff in the largest US Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, were either ignored or covered up by top clergy, according to...
US megachurch Willow Creek Community Church has announced it will lay off 30 per cent of its staff due post-Covid following steep drops in attendance. In a video announcement to the congregation, seni...
Francesco Zanardi has spent the past 12 years documenting sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests in Italy, filling a vacuum he says is caused by the refusal of the country's Church thus far to...
A visibly emotional Scott Morrison, Australia’s outgoing prime minister, thanked his church family for their support and said he was glad his last words in the top job were addressed to them. De...
A Nicaraguan bishop critical of President Daniel Ortega's government began a hunger strike on Friday after taking refuge in a Catholic church indefinitely in the capital Managua, alleging he had b...
Church leaders in the UK and Ireland have come together to urge the Eritrean government to address the human rights crisis as the country celebrates the 31st anniversary of its independence. In a...
Christians are being urged to pray for the family of a US pastor who was stabbed to death and then burnt on Wednesday in the state of Georgia. Rev Marita Harrell was the pastor of Connections United M...
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can no longer take communion because she supports abortion rights and also publicly invokes her Catholic faith, the archbishop of San Francisco said in a letter release...
In one of the largest cash settlements involving sex abuse and the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, reached a tentative $121.5 million agreement to ...
An Orthodox cathedral in Lithuania has been attacked, pasted with pictures of Vladimir Putin and the Russian patriarch covered in blood. The Vilnius place of worship contacted police after the g...
Islamic State says it has executed 20 Christian men in Nigeria, claiming the attack is a warning to Christians around the world. The terror group released a video showing the mass execution, with some...
After a defeated vote to debate the European Commission's position on Christian persecution, human rights lawyers and MEPs are raising concerns. The topic is particularly prevalent following the b...
An internal investigation by the Spanish Catholic Church into alleged child sexual abuse by members of the clergy is "partial" and "of little use," the office of Spain...
Christians across England will unite on the 25th May to light a candle for George Floyd, on what will be the second anniversary of his death. The event called #CandleOfJustice will be a time where peo...
The Marriage Foundation are 'not surprised' by reports from the Office of National Statistics, which shows a drop in the number of people tying the knot. Harry Benson, Marriage Foundatio...
Franklin Graham is in good spirits when we meet in London's Hyde Park Corner. He's excited to be visiting Speaker's Corner, the place where many evangelists have preached and debated over ...
The gunman who police say open fired on a Southern California church congregation, due to his political hatred for Taiwan, has labelled himself the "destroying angel." David Cho, 68, s...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) have warned of a major humanitarian crisis as a result of rising Covid rates in North Korea. Authorities have acknowledged the deaths of at least 50 people and that...
Police in Nigeria are looking for more suspects in connection with the brutal killing of a young Christian woman. Deborah Emmanuel (aka Deborah Yakubu or Deborah Samuel) was stoned and then set on fir...
Christian websites in China have been suspended as new digital content regulations take effect. The measures, which require internet users who wish to post religious content to obtain a permit, ...
