It’s been revealed that some asylum seekers arriving in the UK via “unnecessary and dangerous routes" could be electronically tagged by the government. A 12-month pilot scheme has sta...
A year-long national pilot scheme to help encourage online and contactless giving in churches across Cumbria has raised nearly £85,000. More than 100 churches across the Diocese of Carlisle, the...
A retired priest has been charged with indecent assault following a decade-long investigation into a residential school in Manitoba, Canadian police said on Friday. Arthur Masse, 92, was arrested and ...
A third person has died following a shooting during a senior's potluck dinner at a church near Birmingham, Alabama, police said Friday. The Vestavia Hills Police Department did not ...
A High Court has forced has a London church to shut down after it failed to fully show how it spent £1.87 million. The Insolvency Service announced on Friday that SPAC Nation, legally known...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has publically apologised for the Church of England investment fund’s connection to slavery. It comes after a three-year investigation by the Church Commissione...
Three people were shot, two fatally, inside a suburban Alabama church on Thursday evening, before a suspect was taken into custody, police said. The shooting happened at Saint Stephen's ...
With applause and a few shouts of approval, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) on Wednesday voted to issue a formal apology to survivors of sex abuse, as the thousands of delegates gathered wound d...
Pope Francis' 2nd-7th July trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan has been indefinitely postponed because of the 85-year-old pontiff's knee ailment, the Vatican sai...
Pastor Julian Moreno stood at the pulpit of the Primera Iglesia Baptist church in Uvalde where he's preached for 50 years, speaking of his great-granddaughter, who was among the 19 children gunned...
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine is seeking permission from the government to take over a building on the grounds of a historic monastery in Kyiv, a move likely to widen a rift with a separate...
Hong Kong's Cardinal Joseph Zen - in his first public remarks since he was arrested in a national security case earlier this month - on Tuesday criticised the Vatican for its "unwise" de...
The Las Vegas man accused of killing one person and wounding five others in a burst of gunfire at a Taiwanese-American church luncheon in California on Sunday was licensed to work as a security ...
For decades, complaints of sex abuse by pastors and staff in the largest US Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, were either ignored or covered up by top clergy, according to...
Pope Francis will visit Canada 24th-30th July, the Vatican said on Friday, a trip during which he is expected to personally apologise for the Catholic Church's role in running residential sch...
Nigeria's largest group of Christian churches on Friday condemned the killing of a female student who was beaten and burned by fellow students for alleged blasphemy and demanded the auth...
A priest in Nigeria who was abducted in March has been confirmed dead. Archdiocese of Kaduna said in a statement that Fr Joseph Akete Bako was killed by his abductors between 18th and 20th April. &quo...
A church leader in the US state of Nebraska cried tears of joy as he shared with the congregation that he is getting a life-saving organ donation from his own lead pastor. During last Sunday’s s...
The Church of England will make extra funding available to help clergy and lay workers struggling with the cost of living crisis, particularly rising energy bills. The Church has announced that i...
The Russian Orthodox Church scolded Pope Francis on Wednesday for using the wrong tone after he urged Patriarch Kirill not to become the Kremlin's "altar boy", cautioning the V...
