Church of England parishes are being urged to scrap fees for couples getting married in its churches to encourage more people to tie the knot. The Blackburn Diocesan Synod believes the current structu...
Christian charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) said it will send fresh aid to Mozambique following last week’s extremist attacks – with 17,000 people forced to flee Cabo Delgado P...
A UK Baptist minister has said that any move by the Baptist Union of Great Britain to allow ministers to marry their same-sex partner would lead to the “dissolving” of the denominatio...
A court in Cuba has upheld the seven year prison sentence against a Protestant pastor who was arrested while taking part in peaceful protests in July 2021. Lorenzo Rosales Fajardo, and 14 others, had ...
The Church of England has clarified remarks made by the Bishop of Leeds over Ukraine giving up territory to get a ceasefire. In a discussion paper on Ukraine written for next month’s meeting of ...
Suspects have been arrested in connection with the Owo church shooting that saw at least 40 people killed in the Ondo State of Nigeria. The attack took place at the St Francis Church at around 1...
A Christian trade union representative is urging Church leaders to step in to help resolve industrial disputes which look likely to cause misery for millions of people this summer. It comes as the RMT...
The Baptist Union of Great Britain has revealed it is "reflecting on a request" to change its rules around same sex marriage for its accredited ministers. In a communication with its ch...
The Archbishop of Canterbury has taken to social media to urge Christians to pray for the situation in eastern Congo. The country is undergoing a resurgence of violence prompting more than 30,000 peop...
Salvation Proclaimer Ministries Limited, most commonly known as SPAC, will challenge a High Court decision to wound up the church for not clearly disclosing how £1.87 million were spent. I...
The pope has urged couples to refrain from sexual intercourse before marriage in a new document released by the Vatican. The document gives couples advice regarding romantic relationships within...
Lithuanian bishops have called on politicians to vote down proposed same-sex partnership legislation, quoting words used by Pope Francis to argue that civil unions distort the concept of marriage and ...
A Russian TV host has insulted Liz Truss for sanctioning the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, amid the war in Ukraine. Vladimir Solovyov, commonly known as 'Putin's...
Christian Aid has warned of a global humanitarian crisis as the war in Ukraine continues to affect global food and energy prices. The international development charity has publi...
Christians are being deliberately driven from their homes in certain regions of the world, according to the charity Open Doors. Its new report, called 'Church on the Run', says that government...
A new report by Christians against Poverty has warned the cost of living crisis is pushing people “to the edge” of suicide. The debt counselling charity has found that at least 30 per cent...
Conservative MP Lucy Allan has accused the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Rev Justin Welby of "alienating" Church of England congregants by taking a "strong political stance" on is...
The Vatican, in an apparent attempt to boost the confidence of the faithful in how their charitable contributions to the pope are used, on Thursday issued the first detailed disclosure of his main fun...
Three people have been killed in attacks on two churches in Nigeria. Gunmen on motorcycles attacked worshippers during a service at the Maranatha Baptist Church and St Moses Catholic Church at K...
The Archbishop of York has told Premier he was “terrified” when he was told he had quickly prepare a sermon to give at the Platinum Jubilee Thanksgiving service. A few days before the serv...
