The plight of children caught up in Syria’s civil war is being highlighted by the Catholic charity CAFOD. Friday marked thirteen years since the country’s President Bashar al-Assad brutall...
A priest in Tenerife has apologised after painting over historic 300-year-old frescoes in his church. Fr Hector Lunar from the Church of St Anthony of Padua in the town of El Tanque told local newspap...
France’s Catholic Church has initiated a reparations programme, compensating hundreds of victims of child sexual abuse by priests or church representatives, according to an announcement by an in...
Michale Gove has said he is exercising “Christian forgiveness” towards Tory donor and businessman Frank Hester over his comments about Labour MP Diane Abbott. Speaking to Sky News on Thurs...
After a three-month trial period, Winchester Cathedral has decided to let dogs enter the church during visiting hours. However, the decision has sparked some controversy among locals. They cited...
Patriarch Neophyte, a soft-spoken theologian who sought to restore the reputation of the Bulgarian Orthodox church hurt by links to businessmen and communist secret police, died at the age of 78, the ...
The acting Bishop of Coventry, Rt Rev Ruth Worsley, has voiced support for All Saints Church in Bedworth, as it plans to install solar panels on its roof despite its Grade II listed status. The ...
A Methodist minister and member of the House of Lords says the escalating violence in Haiti is the result of a failure of years of international policy. Scores of people in the country have been kille...
Pope Francis has no intention of resigning as he feels that his health is good enough to allow him to carry on, he says in a new book whose excerpts were published by Italy's Corriere della Sera n...
Catholic church officials have come under scrutiny for their decision not to contact the police about a ‘physical argument’ between a priest and an elderly widow parishioner, despite the w...
Concerns are growing over the implications of a new security law in Hong Kong, which may compel priests to violate the sanctity of the Confessional by disclosing its contents. According to the new pol...
Nearly half of New Zealand’s Manna Christian bookstores are closing their doors, prompting concerns over the loss of access to Christian resources and the rise of misinformation in an incre...
Over 700 medical professionals are urging MPs to back a change in the law which would lower the abortion time limit from 24 to 22 weeks. In a letter to all 650 MPs, they call on them to vote in suppor...
Retired priest, battling arthritis, sets out on 200km Easter walk for charity A 75-year-old priest has started his mission of trekking more than 200 kilometres by Easter, despite grappling with ...
Three Egyptian Coptic monks were killed in a "criminal assault" inside a Coptic monastery in South Africa, the Christian Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt said on Tuesday, and South ...
The Church of England will not adopt a set of cast-iron criteria when deciding whether to baptise asylum seekers as it was impossible to see into someone's heart, a bishop said on Tuesday amid a r...
A former Church of England priest, Matthew Firth, has shed light on a concerning trend of asylum seekers seeking baptism, only to “melt away” when asked to become involved in the church co...
A woman who was famously arrested for praying in her head close to an abortion clinic, will testify “tolerance over censorship” on Tuesday, as proposed buffer zone legislation is considere...
Female leaders in the Church of England are calling for a more diverse Church as they celebrate 30 years since the first woman was ordained as a priest. Berners-Wilson was the first of 32 women to be ...
More kidnappings have taken place in Nigeria and Christian groups around the world are pleading with the Nigerian government to do more to protect civilians from abductions and free those already in c...
