The Vatican has lifted a ban on married men joining the priesthood in Eastern Catholic churches outside their traditional territories. It means they can now serve in areas such as the United States, ...
A US teacher that was ordered by the school's principal not to attend a church event because two students from the school would be as well has had the decision The non-profit Liberty Counsel represe...
Fears are being raised for Christians in the region after two bishops in Bangladesh receive death threats in the run up to Christmas. 37 Christian leaders have reported receiving death threats sinc...
Bangladeshi police have revealed they foiled a planned suicide bombings at a church on Christmas Day. According to Asia News, the Islamist extremist group New Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (NJMB) pl...
Concern is growing among Christians in Bangladesh after the country's PM said she would not tolerate people offending Islam. There's been widespread protests in Pakistan following the release of Chri...
A church security guard is in hospital after being attacked by a group of men in Bangladesh. Gilbert De Cotsa, 65, was hacked with sharp weapons outside the Mathurapur Catholic Church at approximatel...
A pastor in Bangladesh has survived an attack by three men who came to his home pretending to want to learn about Christianity, according to the victi The attack follows a further two incidents wit...
Two excommunicated bishops are trying to create a new Catholic church, because they believe the current one has gone in the wrong direction. Jean-Michel Faure, 73, says Pope Francis has devised a "ne...
A photograph of a child being baptised in Georgia has been nominated for a top international prize. The photo, called 'Georgian baptism', was taken at a church in the country's capital Tbilisi.It was...
A Baptist minister has been forced to address a claim that he is a "religious bigot", hours before leading prayers at the new US embassy in Jerusalem. Robert Jeffress, a prominent American church fig...
A Baptist minister only suffered cuts and bruises in a plane crash he says would have killed him without divine intervention. Paul White had to be rescued in Queensland, Australia when his two-seater...
Anti-persecution charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is raising concern over the arrest of a Baptist pastor in Cuba just hours before President Barack Revd Mario Felix Lleonart Barroso was ta...
A Baptist from Jamaica has become the oldest person in the world at the age of 117. Mother of six Violet Mosse-Brown has attended the same church on the Caribbean island for decades, according to loc...
The president of the Alliance of Baptists of Brazil has indicated his Church is open to the idea of abortions for women with the Zika virus. Joel Zeferino was speaking as the debate on terminations r...
The terror cell behind the deaths of 15 people during two vehicle attacks in Spain last week had also planned to bomb the most famous church in Barcelona, a sus Mohamed Houli Chemlal told a court in ...
Barcelona's famous Sagrada Familia has finally received a building permit - 137 years after construction began. Authorities realised in 2016 that Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi's spectacular church h...
The UK Minister of State has met with faith groups that care for survivors of rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in central Africa. The Anglican Church of Congo as well as the Christian...
A bishop in Syria narrowly avoided death when a bomb landed on his bed during an offensive in the country's capital, Damascus. According to Christian humanitarian charity Aid to the Church in Need (A...
A 600 year old crucifix has been found in a Belgian flea market almost four years after it was stolen. The piece which survived a fire during the Battle of Waterloo was taken from the wall of a chape...
A BBC two-part series starts on Friday night called 'Inside the Vatican' which follows the jobs and lives of those who work at the centre of the Catholic Church It gives an insight into the lives beh...
