The government says it will bring in mandatory life sentences for anyone who kills a member of the emergency services. The so-called Harper's Law follows a campaign by the widow of PC Andrew Harpe...
A 24 year old youth worker and "deeply committed Christian" was fatally stabbed at her flat in Bradford. Bori Benko, whose body was discovered in the Great Horton area on Sunday, was explori...
The international conference for Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) is to be hosted in London next summer. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will bring together governments and faith ...
The trickle of tourists is sometimes scarcely enough to fill a manger, let alone an inn, but Bethlehem's Palestinians are hopeful that numbers will rise in the month before Christmas. The traditio...
A Sri Lankan court on Monday began the first of three trials connected to bombings that killed nearly 270 people on the island in 2019, amidst appeals for greater accountability from victim support gr...
Schools in Northern Ireland are teaching too much Christianity as part of religious education, the high court has heard. The laws requiring faith-based Christian religious education (RE) and coll...
A Bishop's house and church-run clinic were raided by over 200 soldiers and police in Kayah state on Monday. Medical records were seized and 18 healthcare workers were arrested at Karuna clinic an...
The Pope has praised Sir David Amess's years of "devoted public service" and "deep concern for the poor" in a message read at a Requiem Mass for the MP who was killed at his co...
Downing Street has announced the appointment of the next Bishop of Willesden. The Reverend Canon Lusa Nsenga-Ngoy was ordained in 2008 and is currently Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Mission and Min...
The wife of a controversial Nigerian televangelist pastor is continuing his legacy, after reopening his mega church for Sunday services. Evelyn Joshua, who has been appointed as her husband’s su...
Hundreds of people gathered in the streets of Southend on Monday to bid farewell to Catholic MP Sir David Amess ahead of a service at Westminster Cathedral on Tuesday. His coffin was draped in a...
A fleet of 43 gritting lorries and 29,000 tonnes of salt are being blessed by the Bishop of Grimsby. The ceremony, at Lincolnshire Council's depot in Sturton by Wold is part of the local aut...
Greece joined several other European countries on Thursday in imposing more restrictions on those unvaccinated against COVID-19 following a surge in infections in recent weeks. From next Monday, unvac...
A pastor in Uganda has been tragically murdered in front of his daughter after a group of Islamic extremists attacked him with long knifes and blunt objects. According to news outlet Morning Star, thr...
More than ten crimes a day were recorded at churches during the pandemic, according to the Countryside Alliance. Southeast England was the worst hit with the Met Police recording 575 crimes, followed ...
The European Evangelical Alliance (EEA) has accused the government of Belarus of “using human beings as pawns” in their desire to push back against the European Union (EU) for imposing san...
Christian MPs Fiona Bruce and Carla Lockhart will propose changes to the UK’s abortion laws. They have come together to propose two amendments to the Government’s Health and Care Bill whic...
A Nicaraguan presidential decree affecting the Holy See's ambassador in the Central American country appears to be retaliation for comments made by the local Church leadership criticizing th...
Catholics in England and Wales are being encouraged to “look again” at the activities they are doing on Sundays instead of going to Mass. In a statement, The Bishops of England and Wales u...
BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing has important lessons for UK churches, according to Rev Dr Hannah Lewis. Rev Dr Lewis has recently been appointed as chaplain to the Deaf Community in the Dioce...
