The Catholic Church in Australia has paid compensation totalling £170 million (A$276 million) to thousands of child abuse survivors since 1980, an inquiry has Documents presented to a royal commiss...
Survivors of child abuse have raised $90,000 (around £45,000) to see Cardinal George Pell travel to Rome to give evidence. Australian comedian Tim Minchin even made a song to assist with the crowdfu...
Survivors of abuse at the hands of church leaders in Ballarat, in Victoria, Australia, will be given the profits from an estate formally used by a bishop who ha Ronald Mulkearns used the £1.2 millio...
Pope Francis has defrocked a Chilean priest who was a central character in the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy. The pontiff invoked his "supreme" authority to stiffen an earlier sentence ...
Cyprus's Orthodox Christian Church has defrocked a priest for sexually abusing his stepdaughter when she was a child. Kykkos Bishop Nikiforos said on Wednesday the Holy Synod's decision, a first...
A friend of the man accused of shooting nine black Christians during a Bible study at a church in the US last year is set to plead guilty. A plea agreement signed by federal prosecutors shows that 21...
Action is being urged in the case of a Malaysian pastor who has been missing for two years. According to Open Doors, a charity that serves the persecuted church, the whereabouts of Raymond Koh are st...
Older women who go to church more than once a week live five months longer on average than those who don't, a new study in the US have found. Looking at all causes of death, academics from the public...
Gay rights campaigners have called for the Catholic Church to remove its stigma against the LGBT community. Launching the Equal Future campaign in Dublin to coincide with the beginning of the World M...
Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt has received backlash online from Christians after comparing the Bible to My Little Pony. The King of Queens star tweeted: "Dear people citing The Bible: It's a cool ...
Actor Jim Carrey has caused a Twitter storm after sharing online a portrait he painted that is widely believed to be of White House press secretary Sarah Huckab The comedian shared an image of a pain...
The Irish actor Liam Neeson is to voice God in a new global cinema ad promoting the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are expected to be adopted b The SDGs follow, and expand on, the mi...
A Christian actress says God used parties at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles and her friendship with magazine mogul Hugh Hefner to reveal how she was on "the Whilst considering the late Playboy Ma...
A billboard in America advertising a Christian conference was deemed 'offensive' because pastor Greg Laurie was holding a Bible. The posters were for the 'Harvest' evangelistic event in California an...
A study of parents and children aged 13-17 found one in five British households argue about screen time every day. A study by Common Sense Media and the University of Southern California found ...
Cardinal George Pell, an advisor to Pope Francis, has returned to his home country of Australia to face allegations of sex abuse. Australia announced the charges against Pell but he says he is innoce...
The conversion of Chinese workers in African countries to Christianity is being attributed to African evangelical churches. Christopher Rhodes, a lecturer at Boston University's College of General St...
The president of a West African country has assured church leaders that same-sex marriage shall never be legalised under his government. The leader of Ghana since the January last year, Nana Addo Dan...
A Christian woman who spent eight years on death row after being accused of insulting Islam's Prophet Mohammad has been acquitted by Pakistan's highest court. The Supreme Court in Islamabad ordered t...
A father has written an open letter publicly disowning his "prodigal son" who was filmed taking part in a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. Pearce Tefft, from Fargo, confirmed that his son ...
