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Anglican church leaders are being encouraged to move “from a less adversarial to a more conversational listening approach that involves genuine encounter” when discussing issues around gen...

LBC presenter James O'Brien has called a pastor “a disgrace” during a debate over praying for someone with unwanted same-sex attraction. Pastor Walter from a church in Warrington ...

The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has urged global leaders attending the UN climate summit in Glasgow, COP26 to "provide effective responses to the present ecological crisis".&n...

The Government has announced a set of measures to ban 'coercive' conversion therapy under new legislation coming out next year.  Conversion therapy covers a variety of practises which see...

A retired member of the clergy has appeared in court this week charged with damage to property after he glued himself to the entrance to News Corp UK in London, in protest at Rupert Murdoch.  71-...

A Bill to allow those with a severe foetal impairment to have the same rights to live as others has passed a Committee stage at the Northern Ireland Assembly.  The Bill would make it illegal to h...

Prayer vigils and other peaceful gatherings could be put at risk by the new Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill, according to a group of faith leaders. The Bishop of Manchester and the Presidents o...

Two statues, and part of a third statue, have been found at a church excavation site, thought to be more than 1,000 years old.  St Mary's Church in Stoke Mandeville is currently an archeologi...

A Catholic Bishop has disappeared in China and news reports in Asia suggest he has been kidnapped by the Chinese government and sent on a compulsary vacation. Bishop Shao Zhumin has resisted pressure ...

The number of people requesting an exorcism rose during the pandemic as many people felt the worldwide health crisis meant "Satan or some evil entity has taken over their lives," an Italian ...

Christian charity representatives have campaigned outside the Nigerian High Commission in protest at the frequent disappearance of young people in the West African country.  Leah Sharibu, a Chris...

The charity Open Doors says that a Hindu nationalist religious leader called for fellow Hindus to behead Christian converts at a mass rally in India's central Chhattisgarh state.   Swami Parm...

A British teenager who murdered two sisters in a London park, as part of a pact he believed he had made with demonic forces to kill women every six months in exchange for a future lottery win, has bee...

A charity is calling on the Government and the UN to use their diplomatic powers to protect girls from religious minorities being forced to convert to Islam and marry men against their will.  Cat...

Pope Francis has accepted an invitation to visit Canada, where he faces calls for him to apologise for the Catholic Church's role in former schools for indigenous people where children were subjec...

Christian Aid Ministries, who experienced the loss of 17 people in a kidnap nearly a fortnight ago, have urged people to keep praying for their return.  The group was kidnapped when returning fro...

The Christian Institute has launched a campaign to protect the "ordinary work of churches" from being included in the conversion therapy ban.  It follows concerns that church teaching, ...

The work of two Christian MPs has been honoured with funding by the Chancellor - with parents, newborns and families benefitting. However, the Labour Party says these projects are similar to Labour po...

72 faith institutions, including 37 from the UK, have announced their divestment from fossil fuels. It's the largest-ever joint divestment announcement by religious organisations and involves almo...

Joe Biden will meet Pope Francis in the Vatican on Friday at a time when the US president is under pressure from conservatives in the Church for his position in the dispute over abortion rights. ...