A Christian aid worker who was held hostage in Niger for six years has been released. Jeff Woodke who’s from the United States, had just stepped down as the head of Jemed, a charity supported by...
Poland is reckoning with the legacy of one of its most prominent historical figures as allegations that the late Pope John Paul II concealed child abuse deepen rifts in the predominantly Catholic coun...
The spiritual head of the world's Orthodox Christians said on Wednesday that Russia's powerful Orthodox Church shared responsibility for the conflict in Ukraine but that he stood ready to help...
Two members of Israel’s parliament, known as the Knesset, have introduced a bill that would outlaw telling people about Jesus in the Jewish state, and jail everyone who does. The authors of the ...
Nandi County Governor Stephen Sang has ordered newly appointed chief officers to give ten per cent of their monthly salaries to the Church. The directive is a first within Kenya's 47 devolved...
Police in Australia have arrested two men after a group of around 250 people clashed with LGBT activists outside a church in Sydney. LGBT group Community Action for Rainbow Rights (CARR) said several ...
US evangelist Franklin Graham has urged Christians to pray for former president Donald Trump who faces arrest over hush money payments. Trump is expected to be indicted as soon as this week, with the ...
A major fire burned a large church in Burlington, New Jersey to the ground on Monday, its roof collapsing as more than 100 firefighters and emergency personnel battled the flames, local medi...
A Catholic centre in Vienna is offering a free walk-in Christian tattoo service in a bid to shake the “prohibiting and rejecting” view of body art from the Church. Guests will be invited t...
Results from elections last week to provincial councils and the Netherlands’ Senate have been declared, with a new party, the Citizen Farmers Movement (BBB), raking in votes from traditional Chr...
A regime crackdown against protestors in Iran unhappy with the strict interpretation of Islamic law may have brought violations of international human rights, according to a UN special expert. Special...
Pastor Alan Keung, founder of independent news outlet Free HK Media has been sentenced in Hong Kong to eight months in prison for promoting ‘seditious’ content. Hong Kong's recently re...
International development agency Christian Aid has urged the UK government to take immediate action in response to a report revealing that an estimated 43,000 people died during the longest drought on...
Rupert Murdoch's new wife-to-be, Ann Lesley Smith, has described their relationship as a "gift from God," as the couple announced their engagement. The former police chaplain met the bil...
Two prominent Cardinals have called for Germany's Roman Catholic bishops to be put on trial in a church court, for abandoning church doctrine. It follows a decision of a synod of German bishops to...
Spain is in the grip of a long-term drought after 36 months of below-average rainfall, with some parts so parched that officials have asked people to cut water use and meteorologists warn of wors...
A Catholic girl in Pakistan, who was raped and forced to convert to Islam by her kidnapper, has spoken out about her harrowing ordeal. 14 year old Kinza Sindhu was abducted from her home in Lahore by ...
Churches in Rotherham have partnered with Church Mission Society (CMS) to set up a social supermarket - a community hub where members can do their weekly shop for three pounds. It operates through ref...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has paid tribute to the Pope on the tenth anniversary of Francis’ inauguration. In a statement released by Lambeth Palace, Most Rev Justin Welby said : “...
Pope Francis says he supports ‘humanitarian corridors’ to bring refugees to Italy and other European countries. He was speaking while meeting hundreds of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, ...
