The Catholic Church in Italy has allowed openly gay men to train as priests, provided they commit to celibacy. The new guidelines, issued by the Italian Bishops Conference (CIE) on Friday and approved...
A former priest has admitted to discussing having sex with children online. Timothy Gardner has pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO), using ali...
Carol Wimber-Wong, wife of the late John Wimber and co-founder of the influential Vineyard movement, has passed away at the age of 87. She died peacefully on 3rd January 2025 and was remembered for ...
Pope Francis has released his highly anticipated autobiography, Hope – an Autobiography, offering personal reflections on his life, beliefs, and the challenges of leading the Catholic Church. Publis...
The YouVersion Bible App hit a historic milestone on 5th January, recording 798,000 installations in a single day—the highest since its launch in 2008. This broke the previous record set on the firs...
A family from Altadena, California, has gone viral after a statue of the Virgin Mary was discovered unscathed in the rubble of their home, which was destroyed in wildfires. Peter and Jackie Halpin, al...
A former Pastor has been arrested and held on suspicion of armed robbery. Kevin Robert McDonald, 40, a former lead pastor of Landmark Church in Phenix City, Alabama, is reportedly being held at the...
The Charity Commission has launched statutory inquiries into four charities linked to Barnabas Aid including: TBF Trust, Oxford Centre for Religion in Public Life, Reconciliation Trust, and Servants F...
A new report on global religious freedom estimates 300 million Christians face persecution for their faith. The 2025 Global Persecution Index, released by International Christian Concern (ICC), outlin...
A lifetime registered sex offender and former fugitive once featured on America's Most Wanted, is currently serving in leadership roles at Grace Place Church of Christ in Duncanville, Texas, and a...
A Presbyterian church in Los Angeles is leaning on faith as fast-moving wildfires engulfed part of its building. The Pacific Palisades wildfire tore through southern California on Tuesday, sweeping in...
The pastor of 433 Church in Miami, Florida, had his Sunday sermon abruptly interrupted by police officers following an ongoing custody dispute with his ex-wife, Marissa Pardun. During the church’s l...
A pastor at Casa de Adoracion in Phoenix, Arizona, has been indicted on multiple charges of voyeurism after allegedly installing a hidden camera in a church bathroom to record women. According to The ...
The Vineyard Church in Duluth, Minnesota, along with its parent organisation Vineyard USA, is facing nine civil lawsuits in the wake of former pastor Jackson Gatlin’s criminal conviction for sexual ...
New figures show a decline in giving by Evangelical Christians to their own Churches. A recent survey highlights a decline in charitable donations among Evangelical Protestants in the U.S., with both ...
Bishop T.D. Jakes made an emotional return to the pulpit on New Year's Eve, sharing his harrowing experience of a health crisis that nearly cost him his life. The founder of The Potter's House...
The Pope has delivered his New Year’s homily for 2025, in which he warned Catholics not to “invent God in the abstract”. Referring to vague, self-serving forms of spirituality, Pope Francis said...
Pastor Ron Carpenter has introduced a new AI-driven app that allows users to have "1-on-1 personalised interactions" with an AI version of him at any time of the day or night. The app, called the Ron ...
A man from Maryland, USA, was taken into custody on Christmas Eve after allegedly disrupting services at two churches, including pouring whiskey into holy water and threatening parishioners. The St. ...
Denzel Washington, the celebrated actor known for his powerful performances in films like Gladiator II, embraced a deeply personal milestone on Saturday as he was baptised and received his minister...