Three men kidnapped from their Christian college chapel in Nigeria have been released, prompting "a symphony of praises" from staff, students, parents and Christians across the country. The fourth-y...
France's top bishop said on Tuesday that the secrecy of the confession should not take precedence over French laws on sex crimes against children, reversing his previous position after he was summ...
France's top bishop has been summoned by the interior minister after saying that the pact of secrecy would prevent a priest from reporting sex crimes against children that were revealed during Cat...
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland is holding its first general assembly meeting for over two years. Around 450 ministers and elders from congregations across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ire...
Pope Francis and other religious leaders made a joint appeal on Monday for next month's U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) to offer concrete solutions to save the planet from "an unprecedented...
The French Catholic Church has had an estimated 3,000 paedophiles in its ranks over the past 70 years, the head of an independent commission investigating the sex abuse scandal said in an intervie...
The Church of Ireland is to complete its divestment from companies that extract fossil fuels by the end of this year, fulfilling a commitment made in 2018. Several church groups and individual churc...
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 shook Greece's largest island, Crete, on Monday morning, killing one person and injuring several, authorities said. The tremor sent people fleeing out of home...
In Wisconsin, a United Church of Christ camp has changed its name in order to "lift up Indigenous voices" and own up to colonialism. Camp Awesum, a summer ministry based in Green Lake, Wisconsin, ann...
The Southern Baptist Executive Committee voted for an additional week of debates after the ecclesiastical leadership organization disagreed on how to progress on investigating abuse claims inside the...
A prosecutor in Missouri reported on Tuesday that he had charged five employees of a Christian college with abusing students. The employees of the Agape Boarding School, a Christian school for "rebell...
 Pope Francis on Wednesday praised youth climate campaigners for their efforts to tackle global warming and encouraged them to carry on with their work "for the good of humanity". Thousands of young ...
The Diocese of Dromore has said it is committed to doing what it can to help bring healing to the survivors of clerical sexual abuse within its churches. The Northern Ireland diocese includes parts ...
The Evangelical Fellowship in the Church in Wales (EFCW) has asked for representation on the bench of bishops from someone who believes marriage is only between a man and a woman. The evangelical wi...
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologne will take a "spiritual time-out" from his duties after committing grave errors in a crisis over clerical sexual abuse, but will retain his post, the Vatican sa...
The Washington National Cathedral, based in the District of Columbia, has announced who will replace the stained glass images of Confederate soldiers. In 2017, the Cathedral removed stained-glass wind...
Kenneth Copeland, the controversial Christian televangelist, asked viewers to help fund a private jet to avoid getting the vaccine. Kenneth Copeland is a notable and famous Christian preacher who has ...
The Christian apologist Josh McDowell announced that he is stepping back from his ministry after making controversial remarks on race. In a tweet posted on Wednesday evening, Josh McDowell announced ...
The International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has stated that SBC missionaries must be fully vaccinated. The IMB, which handles most Southern Baptist missions operations, posted ...
Pope Francis has joked that some people in the Church hoped he would not survive his recent colon operation, and denounced vociferous conservative critics for doing "the work of the devil" by undermin...
