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Pope Francis will face protests about child abuse when he visits Ireland, a campaigner said. The pontiff will attend part of the 9th World Meeting of Families which will take place from August 21 - 2...

A meeting between Germany, France and Britain is the perfect opportunity to speak about the plight of Pakistani Christians according to a charity. The meeting has been called to discuss the current r...

Christian campaigners are calling on the Church of England to stop facilitating the arms trade through events. It follows the news that Church House, the Church's headquarters, will host an event spo...

Anglicans in Canada have voted against allowing same sex marriage by just one vote. After a week of passionate debate at the Church of Canada's General Synod, members rejected a motion that would hav...

One of Canada's most senior Catholics has said priests can deny the Last Rites to people planning to die early through assisted suicide. Rt Revd Terrence Prendergast, the Archbishop of Ottawa, was sp...

Christian practitioners are taking the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to court over a new human rights policy. The Catholic Register reported that the doctors have filed an application...

Christians in Canada are protesting the arrival of US evangelist Franklin Graham to their city.  A number of evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics in Metro Vancouver are against the three-...

A Canadian mission team has been denied entry to the US over fears they would be taking American jobs, a church spokesman said. The group from the Rehoboth United Reformed Church in Hamilton were pla...

A Canadian court has ruled that a Catholic school board cannot receive government funding for non-Catholic students. A judge said doing so would violate the section of Charter of Rights and Freedoms....

The Canadian government and one of Canada's biggest churches have spoken out about the sentencing of a pastor in North Korea.  The groups have spoken out saying that they hope the sentencing of ...

More than two dozen Canadian missionaries stranded in Haiti during violent protests have been safely flown out of the country. A team of 26 Christians from Alberta had been working for the aid group ...

Video footage has been released showing a Canadian pastor, who was arrested in North Korea, apologising for insulting the government there. Revd Hyeon Soo Lim, from Light Korean Presbyterian Church i...

North Korea's Supreme Court has sentenced a Canadian pastor to life in prison with hard labour for what it calls crimes against the state. Hyeon Soo Lim, in his early sixties, was originally detained...

A 62 year old pastor from Ontario, Canada has described the two and a half years he spent in a North Korean prison. Rev. Hyeon Soo Lim was released from a North Korean prison on Wednesday and spoke t...

The former 'Vicar of Baghdad' Canon Andrew White has been suspended as the president of the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East (FRRME). In a statement on his Facebook page Ca...

The Vicar of Baghdad has revealed he will return to Iraq after previously saying he had been ordered to stay away. Canon Andrew White is currently in Jerusalem after leaving Baghdad last week and sai...

A Christian pastor from the US has been arrested after a shooting at Capitol Hill, the equivalent to the Houses of Parliament, in America.  Larry Dawson, a pastor from Tennessee, was shot inside...

Dozens of villagers, many of them Christians, have been released by the Arakan Army in Myanmar. Religious freedom charity, International Christian Concern have confirmed the release of villagers on 1...

A group affiliated with Al-Qaeda has released footage of a captured nun pleading for Pope Francis to help secure her release in West Africa. A video of Gloria Cecilia Narváez was released by the gro...

A Catholic bishop from the Central African Republic is meeting MPs to discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the country. The CAR has been convulsed by religious violence since northern Seleka re...